[Vision2020] State Verifies Obama's Birth Certificate

[Chasuk]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 05:54, No Weatherman <no.weatherman at gmail.com> wrote:

> And I didn't see the part about dual loyalties arising from natural
> born citizenship in two different countries.

The term "natural born citizen" isn't defined in the Constitution, but
would logically seem to mean citizenship acquired by having been born
in the US.  Thus to speak of "natural born citizenship in two
different countries" is an oxymoron.

Would I have allegiance to a country in which I had only lived until I
was 10?  No.

Of course, you will bring up Odinga again, so I've provided this handy URL:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/17/no-ties-to-terrorism/

LETTER TO EDITOR: No ties to terrorism

Friday, October 17, 2008

Mark Hyman's "Obama's Kenya ghosts," (Commentary, Sunday), was a
disgraceful smear on Sen. Barack Obama. Because I accompanied Mr.
Obama on his trip to Kenya, I can say unequivocally that Mr. Hyman's
piece was filled with lies and innuendo.

• Mr. Obama's 2006 trip to Kenya was authorized by the Republican
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who congratulated
Mr. Obama on a successful trip when he returned.

• Mr. Obama did not "campaign" on behalf of Raila Odinga, has never
endorsed him, and was not "nearly inseparable" from Mr. Odinga during
his time in Kenya. Mr. Obama met with a wide range of Kenyan and
American officials, including a Nobel Prize winner, human-rights
defenders, and President Mwai Kibaki. He did not have a single
scheduled meeting with Mr. Odinga.

• Mr. Obama was accompanied throughout his trip by myself and two
other active-duty U.S. military officers; and the U.S. ambassador
attended meetings and events throughout the trip. The Obama staffer -
Mark Lippert - that Mr. Hynes names is a naval reservist and Iraq War
veteran whose deployment began several months before the Kenyan
elections and continued well past it.

• The Obama speech that Mr. Hyman references was a widely praised
effort that condemned corruption and tribalism while urging the
promotion of private enterprise and accountable, transparent
government.

• Mr. Obama and Mr. Odinga are not cousins, and efforts to assert
otherwise have been described as "stretched to the point of
ridiculousness" by an independent fact checker.

Mr. Hyman references telephone contacts that Mr. Obama had with Mr.
Odinga in January. He fails to mention that those contacts were
encouraged by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and were accompanied
by public statements that Mr. Obama made on Voice of America, Kenyan
radio, and in a Kenyan newspaper, calling for calm and a peaceful
resolution of Kenya's political crisis. Repeatedly, Mr. Obama
asserted, "the opposition (led by Mr. Odinga) must turn away from the
path of mass protest and violence in seeking participation in
government."

Mr. Hyman's piece concludes with an astonishing attempt to tie Mr.
Odinga, the sitting prime minister of Kenya, and, by absurd
association, Mr. Obama to acts of terrorism committed against the
United States of America. This false and outrageous charge says a lot
more about Mark Hyman than it says about Barack Obama.

MAJ. GEN. J. SCOTT