CONFIRMED!: FORMER KENYAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

The Obama campaign admits he was a citizen of Kenya.

From Doug Ross:



It reads:

“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.”

Check it here, until the Obama Truth Squad removes it.

THE REALITY OF CHINA'S DEMOCRACY

This letter from a reader at Guardian.UK:

I am very disappointed to read the article by Fu Ying, the Chinese ambassador in London (Bringing out the best in us, September 4). I feel that Fu has taken advantage of media freedom in this country to spread lies and Chinese communist regime propaganda. He does not speak for the Chinese people. In my view, the Beijing Olympics were not successful because they did not represent the real Olympic spirit, even though China has won many medals. It has been used by the communist regime as a showcase, in the same way as last century's Berlin Olympics were used by Hitler. Behind those shining medals, there were blood, suffering, arrests, torture and even deaths of innocent people.

Fu Ying claims China will "develop democracy and prosperity in line with its own culture and social conditions". Culture here means the Communist party's culture, which has certainly not come from the real traditional Chinese culture. The word democracy has been used by the regime only when it can help to polish its image. There has been no democracy under the communist regime; no free elections, only tyranny.

Fu also says that China should not be expected to become a carbon copy of a western society. As a Chinese person who lived under the communists for over 30 years, with three generations in my family suffering from the regime's persecution, I would say that the communist regime has been using this kind of statement for many years as an excuse to refuse to find out why people in western societies have been more relaxed and happier. Instead, it has copied and developed genocide and labour camps from the Soviet Union and Hitler.

Ze Xia
London

I hope the Chinese goons do not harm this person.

WHAT SECRETS DOES OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE HOLD?

This from Jim Geraghty at NRO about what may be disclosed if Obama ever surrenders his birth certificate:

Reporters have asked for it and been denied, and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public. The campaign cited the birth certificate in their “Fact Check” on William Ayers, so presumably, someone in the campaign has access to it.

There are several (unlikely) rumors circulating regarding Obama’s birth certificate.

Rumor one: Obama was born in Kenya. Rather unlikely, as it would require everyone in his family to lie about this in every interview and discussion with those outside the family since young Obama appeared on the scene. However, if it were true, it would probably raise a major question of “does he qualify as a natural-born citizen”? If Obama were born outside the United States, one could argue that he would not meet the legal definition of natural-born citizen under because U.S. law at the time of his birth required his natural-born parent (his mother) to have resided in the United States for “ten years, at least give of which had to be after the age of 16.”

Ann Dunham was 18 when Obama was born – so she wouldn’t have met the requirement of five years after the age of 16.

(Interestingly, apparently there isn’t much paperwork on Obama’s parents’ marriage. Obama: From Promise to Power, page. 27: “Obama later confessed that he never searched for the government documents on the marriage, although Madelyn (Obama’s maternal grandmother) insisted they were legally married.” Also note that Obama’s father apparently was not legally divorced from his first wife back in Kenya at the time, a point of contention that ultimately led to their separation.)

Rumor Two: Obama’s middle name is not “Hussein” but “Muhammad.”

As Politifact notes, all available public records going back to 1991 refer to the candidate as “Barack H. Obama.”

It is theoretically possible, if not plausible, that Obama changed his name at some earlier point in his life, as he was sorting out his issues of culture and identity. But this would mean that Obama recognized how emotionally-charged the name “Muhammad” would become in American life long before the 9/11 attacks. And if you’re going to change your middle name from that of the central figure in Islam because you fear controversy, picking the last name of the highest-profile anti-American dictator in the Middle East (Saddam) doesn’t seem like a huge improvement.

Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name him after his father, and his birth certificate says “Barry.” Perhaps the most plausible of the rumors, as Obama was known by that name through much of his childhood and young adulthood. If true, this would spur a new round of “When Barry Became Barack” stories – a minor headache for the campaign, but hardly a major scandal.

Of course, even if the birth certificate turns up now, I have no confidence whatsoever it will not have been altered. Something is foul here. And has been for sometime with Obama and his backers.