Barack Obama’s own website designed to fight the alleged smears against him and his campaign admits that Barack Obama was, in fact, a Kenya citizen until 1982.
Will the MSM pick up on this?
From the Obama Fight The Smears Website:
FactCheck.org Clarifies Barack’s Citizenship
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”
Nothing here even comes close to disqualify.
Article II of the United States Constitution sets the requirements to serve as President of the United States:
* be a natural-born citizen of the United States;
* be at least thirty-five years old;
* have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen (14) years
That’s it folks.
Dual nationality isn’t mentioned nor any religion, sex, funny name, skin-color ……not even a music preference is mentioned.
All the whining, teeth gnashing, derangement and finger pointing in the world isn’t going to change one iota or letter of the US Constitution.
Hey you know would be REALLY REALLY GOOD? If Sarahcuda used this great salvo in what will surely be a stunning performance at the debate on Thursday.
I think she should call Obama out on being a Kenyan citizen until 1982! THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT!
Hey Stuckons, do you ever wonder why your candidates never use any of the brilliant arguments you post here? Because even THEY aren’t THAT stuck on stupid! AND THAT’S SAYING SOMETHING! Especially in regard to Mooselini.
Not so fast!
[.. debate on Thursday. ..] ??
They’re in a panic! They’re going to postpone!!!
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The Bush economy and his gift to the American people as he leaves office has finally collapsed.
1) The Fed is injecting an emergency $630 Billion into the financial system (this is not part of the $700billion bailout)
2) Stock Markets worldwide sinks the most since 1997
3) Dow Jones plunges
Gov Sarah Palin is now on her way to Washington DC to set up special meetings with the Fed, the Treasury and calm the markets — she’s in charge, in command and in control of the situation.
This sort of stuff happens in Alaska all the time.
Not to worry.
Debate with Sen. Biden is postponed until November 5th.
It’s interesting to see people’s worldviews expressed in their comments. “Bush’s economy”? I didn’t know it was his economy. I thought it was the American economy. Does that mean the previous 8 years ending in the dot.com bust, massive stock market pull back, and beginning of a recession in Clinton’s final year was Clinton’s economy? I’d call that the American economy, too. Since I don’t see the economy as a command economy run by the President, something typical of a socialist economy, communism, etc., I see that there are a multitude of influences contributing to how the overall economy is doing.
So for consistency sake, will you truncate Bush’s responsibility for his economy on the last day of his administration, or is Clinton responsible for the complete recession that he handed over to Bush causing the first round of economic stimulus checks, and tax cuts? Be consistent truth seekers.
PS For cool rock music go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH–o
GOVERNOR PALIN is going to fix the economic crisis?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That’s great because according to her CBS interview passing the bailout would also fix health care and cut taxes along with tax reduction and….and…oh never mind.
Maybe she will “suspend her campaign,” that’s how McCain “fixed” it!
Regarding all the disasters from the BushCo era — what IS Bush/Cheney & cabal responsible for, according to the stuckons, absolutely nothing! Obama is going to have a MUCH different hand dealt to him than Bush started with.
btw StuckOn Ricardo — I’ll take the “dotcom” bust over this ANY TIME. Like most Stuckons you seem to be missing the “proportion and perspective” gene. And I’m sure you think the Iraq debacle was just like WWII! Please….first of all if it were WWII we would be under Democratic leadership and we would have won the damn thing already, and also we would have commanded respect in the world instead of where Bush has us now, you think we’re in better shape now than 2000? Then you’re really STUCK!
Katie, Although you failed to address my questions, I will take the comment you made: “I’ll take the “dotcom” bust over this ANY TIME” as an agreement that Presidents are responsible for [i]their[/i] economy after they leave. And in reality, policies of administrations and congress do affect the economy for many years beyond their term.
Have you thought why we have the need for the bailout? I realize that you might get goosebumps waiting for the next tragedy so that blame can be heaped on President Bush, but if we get passed the politics, how did this happen?
We all know that to be a good mortgage company you need to have standards established for who is a good risk. They look at credit scores, debt to asset ratios, income, a whole bunch of factors. This all makes sense. They loan you money and they want to be paid back and the borrower really doesn’t want to loose their principal, damage their credit, and get kicked out of their home. Having standards is just good common sense. Any disagreement so far?
Our beloved President Carter, apparently not understanding that these standards were there to protect the lender and the borrower, pushed for passage of the HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1977—TITLE VIII (COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT). You can find a copy here: http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-2515.html
Basically, this Act told the banks to accept higher risk loans by demanding that banks increase the percentage of loans made to minorities and low income individuals, both groups with higher percentages that fail to qualify for loans. You see welfare can happen two ways. First, the government can put a gun to your head and demand taxes that government then redistributes to another. The second, a more insidious method, is to put the same gun to the head of a business and have the business redistribute its own money to another, thus bypassing governments fingerprint on the transaction. Demanding that banks ignore time honored rules and standards for safe loan practices to achieve “community development” is done by this second method. And when it inevitably produces failed mortgages, who gets blamed? Government? No, free enterprise, greedy people, and of course, President Bush, because we all know what the Bible says: “Bush is the root of all evil”, or something like that.
But President Carter is not all to blame. Let’s take President Clinton for instance. He reformed the Community Reinvestment Act. What will this reform to President Carter’s social engineering do? “CRA reform will generate billions of dollars in new lending and extend basic banking services to the inner cities and to distressed rural communities around the country.”(Link: http://clinton6.nara.gov/1993/12/1993-12-08-briefing-by-bentsen-and-rubin.text.html) Ok, this next question is only for the scholars among you. If you “generate billions of dollars in new lending and extend basic banking services to the inner cities and to distressed rural communities around the country”, did you loosen requirements for loans or did you tighten them? Ding ding ding, you are right, he loosened them even further.
In 2003 President Bush tried to move Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to be under the US Treasury. Nice gesture, but it was defeated by the Democrats. The Dems didn’t see a problem:
Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) claimed of the thrifts “These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis, the more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) added “I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act#cite_note-4 ]
McCain tried to reform Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac when the Dems were saying they were fine. See my link on Rock music in my previous post for details.
So boys and girls, what are the long-term effects of mandatory loosening of lending practices beyond normal prudent sensible business practice levels?
Tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock….. Did you guess mortgage failures yet? Did you guess bank failures yet? Did you guess the inevitable blaming of FREE ENTERPRISE when it wasn’t allowed to freely enterprise its own loans?
The sad thing is Katie, it’s not a choice of you taking the dotcom over this massive failure of the government mandated sub-prime fiasco. We all have to take both, and blaming Bush is ludicrous when the social engineering of liberals, using the banking system to achieve its goals of “community development”, a form of housing affirmative action, is obvious to anyone with an iota of objectivity… which, unfortunately, is too high a bar for some.
Ricardo
Ricardo,
Katie will now run and hide at KOS untill she gets paid overtime for having to think. She likes to change the subject and ignore real facts. So don’t take it personal if she says ummm uhhhh duhhh and has no substance, she works for Barry after all.
You are so full of it. Hey btw when did Bush stop crowing about the “ownership society” and MORE PEOPLE OWNING THEIR OWN HOMES UNDER BUSH THAN ANY OTHER TIME EVER!! WOOOHOO! When did you people do away with that particular slogan, when the house of cards it was built on started to give way with the foreclosures?
Carter in 1977 started “risky” loans. So why are the foreclosures happening NOW? In fact my realtor fried told me to “sell my house by 2007″ because that was when the shit was going to hit the fans. Why? Deregulation and the “creative” loans that were going to blow up after 3 to 5 years, creating massive foreclosures which brings the prices down. DUH!!!
FROM THE WHITE HOUSE SITE IN 2004 — WHERE IS THE “CONCERN?”
Expanding Homeownership. The President believes that homeownership is the cornerstone of America’s vibrant communities and benefits individual families by building stability and long-term financial security. In June 2002, President Bush issued America’s Homeownership Challenge to the real estate and mortgage finance industries to encourage them to join the effort to close the gap that exists between the homeownership rates of minorities and non-minorities. The President also announced the goal of increasing the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million families before the end of the decade. Under his leadership, the overall U.S. homeownership rate in the second quarter of 2004 was at an all time high of 69.2 percent. Minority homeownership set a new record of 51 percent in the second quarter, up 0.2 percentage point from the first quarter and up 2.1 percentage points from a year ago. President Bush’s initiative to dismantle the barriers to homeownership includes:
American Dream Downpayment Initiative, which provides down payment assistance to approximately 40,000 low-income families;
Affordable Housing. The President has proposed the Single-Family Affordable Housing Tax Credit, which would increase the supply of affordable homes;
Helping Families Help Themselves. The President has proposed increasing support for the Self-Help Homeownership Opportunities Program; and
Simplifying Homebuying and Increasing Education. The President and HUD want to empower homebuyers by simplifying the home buying process so consumers can better understand and benefit from cost savings. The President also wants to expand financial education efforts so that families can understand what they need to do to become homeowners.
Was it a government policy to “educate” people and “simplify” home buying to the point where it was a scam and caused this meltdown?
Kenya???
FTS has not addressed the Indonesia situation. You know the one, where Barack’s adopted father registered him as a Muslim…yeah, that one!
I pray we don’t wind up in a civil war because the rats did not fully vet this wannnabe
Great golly miss molly…
katie is now quoting her realtor friends. Axelrod must be tied up.
Katie: “Carter in 1977 started “risky” loans. So why are the foreclosures happening NOW?”
Like I said, there are numerous causes to all of this. It’s not JUST Carter. It’s not JUST Clinton. It’s not JUST congress. It’s not JUST corruption. It’s not just current economic trends. It’s all of it.
The initial (1977) bill did not bring this down. It laid the ground work of mandatory ignoring of time tested, business sense restrictions on loans. My apologies for not making that as clear as it should have been. In 1994/1995 the CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) was modified to greatly expand loans to voters, I mean the minorities and lower income individuals. It was that expansion that took the groundwork of Carter and built a significantly higher demand for loans than a normal market economy would have allowed.
This in and of itself still was not enough to cause this crisis, but the corruption of Fannie Mae top guys hid the shakiness and shadiness of the books of Fannie Mae.
What is the old adage? Power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely? When Fannie Mae’s Raines & Johnson’s compensation was dependent upon number & dollar amount of loans they passed through, without regard to collectibility – and don’t forget, government’s oversight & regulations mandated the issuance of bad loans – Raines & Johnson were tempted by great profits to “cook the books”. Look at their compensation. Did you watch that link I had in my first post? The individual political contributions of Raines & Johnson, as well as Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac supported Sen.Dodd, Obama, & Clinton as top recipients of funds. Their were Republicans too, but the vast majority were to the party that said in 2005 that Fannie & Freddie were in fine shape and reform would hurt “community development”, a social engineering objective.
Katie, I can point out dozens of errors, misteps of Bush and McCain all day long. Love to have the conversation. But I find that the political bigotry on the left prevents them from acknowledging anything the Democrats have ever done wrong. The fingerprints are on the smoking gun on this issue. Further denial by Barney Frank, Pelosi, & the rest makes us look like a 3rd rate banana republic. Not pretty.
ATTN: GOV PALIN: PLEASE, PLEASE ON THURSDAY ACCUSE BARACK OF BEING A KENYAN CITIZEN UNTIL 1982! OH PLEASE!
THEN HIT THEM WITH THE ‘PHONY BIRTH CERTIFICATE!’ YEAH!!!
Just the facts maam ,you duck and dodge more than a NFL tailback. whats with you and Gov. Palin ?She beat you in a pageant sometime?
Problem is…the U.S. doesn’t recognize dual citizenship (you either are or are not a U.S. citizen).
Still no birth certificate ? No medical records ? Who is this puppet ?