[Vision2020] State Verifies Obama's Birth Certificate

[No Weatherman]

Chas:

The letter to the editor only shows that a US partisan has
contradicted a Kenyan public official:

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/Barack.Obama.Kenya.2.331658.html

And it shows that a US partisan contradicts Obama's cousin, Odinga,
whom Obama campaigned for:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm

A letter to the editor is just another opinion.

I prefer original sources.



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>