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Hall of Shame

I have watched the 2008 election in horror and amazement as Barack Obama
has passed from the primaries through the Electoral College vote with
a great deal of help and few challenges from the MSM. I watched as
newspapers like the Charlotte Observer and Chicago Tribune endorsed
Obama. The Tribune, speaking out of both sides of their mouth, actually
did cover some negative aspects of Obama, but still endorsed him.

I was just provided a heads up to an article that reaches a whole new
pinnacle of bias and ignorance. And to add to the audacity of this article,
it came out in the area of a huge US Naval base and military population.

The Virginian Pilot, on December 10, 2008, came out with the following
article that will leave anyone that has earnestly followed the Obama
eligibility scandal, shaking their heads.

“Facts can’t dispel Obama conspiracy sideshow
Posted to: Editorials Opinion”

“The certifiable certificate hunters occupy just one branch of the crazy
tree of deniers who have crafted a tangle of competing claims, none of
which makes anything like sense:

 
1. Obama’s birth certificate is a fake, forged by the state of Hawaii,
which would be plain if the campaign would just release it, along with his
letters of admission to Occidental College, Columbia and Harvard.

2. The decision to release the birth certificate to the well-respected
FactCheck.org Web site (which confirmed its authenticity) proves that Obama
has something to hide, since facts are untrustworthy.

3. The publication of a birth announcement in the local paper 47 years ago
proves nothing, since that was a ruse to protect the infant Obama’s ability
to run for president, since he was actually born in Kenya.

4. Even if Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and can prove it,
his father was a Kenyan, and, therefore, Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen,
despite the fact that he was born in America to an American mother.

5. Actually, his father was British. But same thing.

6. Since Obama later lived in Indonesia with his mother, he actually became
an Indonesian citizen, because anyone who lives anywhere other than the United
States automatically becomes a citizen of that country. It’s in a book someplace.

7. Because Obama hasn’t been willing to directly answer questions dropping
from the crazy tree — and because the courts have refused to make him — then
Obama is a traitor, and nobody has to listen to him when he’s president.”

“That last one seems to be the goal, of course, of the whole bizarre campaign,
which would be meaningless to most of us except for the fact that the U.S.
Supreme Court wasted a few minutes recently batting aside a lawsuit on the
subject.

These conspiracy kooks (more than a few of whom also believe that George W.
Bush ordered the 9/11 attacks) have erected an impenetrable wall of lunacy
around Obama’s citizenship, and no birth certificate or testimony, no court
decision or proof can penetrate it.”

The complete article:

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/12/facts-can%E2%80%99t-dispel-obama-conspiracy-sideshow

Let’s examine the irresponsible reporting line by line:

1. “Obama’s birth certificate is a fake, forged by the state of Hawaii”

How would anyone know. Philip Berg and many others have been requesting
to see it for months. Unlike John McCain who presented his vault copy
of his birth certificate (long form), Obama has spent hundreds of thousands
of dollars and employed an army of attorneys to avoid presenting proof he
is eligible. I haven’t heard of any lawsuit accusing the state of Hawaii
of forging a birth certificate.

2. “The decision to release the birth certificate to the well-respected
FactCheck.org Web site (which confirmed its authenticity) proves that Obama
has something to hide, since facts are untrustworthy.”

Obama has released his birth certificate to no one. A questionable COLB,
a record of birth, was placed on several websites. Factcheck.org well
respected. It depends on who you ask. Obama has longtime ties to Annenberg.
Annenberg funds Factcheck.org. See the truth about the COLB below.
 
3. “The publication of a birth announcement in the local paper 47 years ago
proves nothing”

Probably the most accurate thing written here.

4. “Even if Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and can prove it,
his father was a Kenyan, and, therefore, Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen,
despite the fact that he was born in America to an American mother.”

That is a huge question. Obama has provided no,legal proof of where he was
born. And yes, being born to a Kenyan father, a British subject does in
fact present a problem. The founding fathers had to be grandfathered in
for this very reason.

6. “Since Obama later lived in Indonesia with his mother, he actually became
an Indonesian citizen”

That part is true. Living there did not make him an Indonesian citizen but
being adopted by his step father, Lolo Soetoro, did. We now have the ultimate
verification of the adoption, Obama’s mother and Lolo Soetoro’s divorce
decree proves that Obama had been adopted.

7. “Because Obama hasn’t been willing to directly answer questions dropping
from the crazy tree”

Was this article written by someone in the Obama camp? This is a classic
Obama camp tactic of personal attacks and attempts to discredit anyone
questioniong the “messiah”, Obama.
“That last one seems to be the goal, of course, of the whole bizarre campaign,
which would be meaningless to most of us except for the fact that the U.S.
Supreme Court wasted a few minutes recently batting aside a lawsuit on the subject.”

So now the US Supreme Court is wasting time? Who are these people?
Philip Berg has two dates before the US Supreme Court and there are many others
in state courts.

It is obvious that the Virginian Pilot does not let facts get in the way of
writing an article or editorial. And to publish this nonsense in the backyard
of the fine service people living in the area. Those in the military swore an
oath to defend the US Constitution and live this oath daily. This is one of
the most irresponsible articles of publishing I have ever read.

Virginian Pilot. You are not the only newspaper that is deserving of this, but
for your flagrant disregard for the truth, the US Constitution and your readers,
you are the first newspaper to be inducted into the US Constitution Hall of
Shame. Want to make things right? Apologize to your readers and the American
public and do your job right.

By the way, is there a name associated with this editorial? I would not have
put my name on this rubbish either.

Why Obama is not eligible

What Hawaii Health Official really said

Latest information on court cases

From the Alan Keyes lawsuit

“A press release was issued on October 31, 2008, by the Hawaii Department
of Health by its Director, Dr. Chiyome Fukino. Dr. Fukino said that she
had “personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of
Health has Senator Obama’s original birth certificate on record in
accordance with state policies and procedures.” That statement failed to
resolve any of the questions being raised by litigation and press accounts.
Being “on record” could mean either that its contents are in the computer
database of the department or there is an actual “vault” original.”

“Further, the report does not say whether the birth certificate in the
“record” is a Certificate of Live Birth or a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth.
In Hawaii, a Certificate of Live Birth resulting from hospital documentation,
including a signature of an attending physician, is different from a
Certificate of Hawaiian Birth. For births prior to 1972, a Certificate of
Hawaiian Birth was the result of the uncorroborated testimony of one witness
and was not generated by a hospital. Such a Certificate could be obtained up
to one year from the date of the child’s birth. For that reason, its value
as prima facie evidence is limited and could be overcome if any of the
allegations of substantial evidence of birth outside Hawaii can be obtained.
The vault (long Version) birth certificate, per Hawaiian Statute 883.176
allows the birth in another State or another country to be registered in
Hawaii. Box 7C of the vault Certificate of Live Birth contains a question,
whether the birth was in Hawaii or another State or Country. Therefore,
the only way to verify the exact location of birth is to review a certified
copy or the original vault Certificate of Live Birth and compare the name of
the hospital and the name and the signature of the doctor against the
birthing records on file at the hospital noted on the Certificate of the
Live Birth.”