Barack Obama,  President 2008

Barack Obama Watch: Release the Birth Certiciate Part 2

Barack Obama

Much of his convention speech, and the subject of his 1995 memoir “Dreams From My Father,” focused on his diverse family. Born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961, Obama was the son of a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya who left to study economics at Harvard, and then returned to Kenya, seeing his son just once afterwards. Obama was raised by his mother’s parents. In 2006, he visited his father’s mother in Kenya.

Flap mentioned the other day the refusal of the Obama Campaign to release the candidate’s birth certificate.

Since Team Obama hounded Cindy McCain to release her tax returns at the very least Team Obama should be willing to release Barack’s Hawaii birth certificate. They are not public in Hawaii.

And, he could place these rumors to rest:

  • Obama was born in Kenya and not a “natural born citizen” as the US. Constitution requires for the Presidency
  • Obama’s middle name is not “Hussein” but “Muhammad”
  • Is his REAL name Barack or Barry?

Yesterday, Jim Geraghty debunked most of the internet and blog rumors regarding what was hidden in the birth certificate.

The only scenarios that could really be damaging to Obama himself were if he was born overseas (again, pretty darn implausible) or if he legally changed his name sometime in young adulthood. The idea that he was given some other name at birth and chose to rename himself after his father doesn’t seem unthinkable, considering his complicated relationship with his father and sense of identity…

However, Geraghty did raise some interesting possibilities about Obama’s name.

And a reader brought up a surprisingly plausible scenario. We know that by high school, Obama was identified in yearbooks, etc., as “Barry Obama.” But we know the relationship between Obama’s parents was rocky at times (Obama describes a short article about his father, profiling the Kenyan foreign exchange student, in the Honolulu Advertiser that doesn’t mention his wife or newborn child). What if on his birth certificate he was identified by his mother’s maiden name… Barack Dunham?

Or Barry Dunham?

It is increasingly apparent that Barack or Barry Obama’s parents were NOT married at the time of his birth since his father was NOT divorced from his first wife at the time. So, did his mother (Ann Dunham) name him after herself?

Is Obama’s real name: Barack Dunham? Or Barry Dunham?

Or is it the religion card?

In any case, the intrigue continues until the birth certificate is released.

Why doesn’t Team Obama release the document and be done with it?


16 Comments

  • BJS

    What about the fact that John McCain was born a bastard child to a father who was a Panamanian national?

    The husband of John McCain’s mother is not his father. His father was a Panamanian national with whom McCain’s mother had an affair while in the Panama Canal Zone. McCain is a bastard child whose biological father is a Panamanian national.

    This is damaging and it means that McCain isn’t qualified to be president because he isn’t even a US citizen.

    And the McCain camp sure is quiet on this. I mean, if this isn’t true, why don’t they just dig up his father from the grave and run a DNA test to prove that the guy in the hole is really McCain’s father?

    Notice how McCain has adopted some kids of his own? Why is this? Well, he feels a kinship with these kids: kids who don’t know their real dad.

    What are you hiding John McCain? Dig your dad up from the grave and provide some DNA evidence if this isn’t true.

  • Flap

    Sorry but even under that scenario John McCain would be considered a U.S. Citizen.

    The link is here.

    John McCain was born in 1936.

    If you were born between May 25, 1934 and January 12, 1941, you acquired U.S. citizenship at birth if both your parents were U.S. citizens and at least one lived in the United States before you were born. You didn’t have to do anything special to keep your U.S. citizenship.

    You could also get U.S. citizenship if only one of your parents was a U.S. citizen, as long as that parent lived in the United States at some time. If your U.S. citizenship came from only one parent, you would have been required to reside in the United States for at least two years between the ages of 14 and 28 in order to retain your citizenship. If the one U.S. citizen parent was your father and you were born outside of marriage, the same rules applied if your father legally legitimated you.

  • jane

    I do believe there are more evils to be uncovered with Barack Obama i have always felt like it is so. he is very secretive. I think the fact he is so hesitant to show us a true birth certificate proves it. I have always felt he is lying about not being a muslim. America better wake up and smell the coffee before it is too late. Too many Americans are all excited at the color of his skin instead of the evils lurking in the mans brain. He is devious. Best be praying before Americans give away our country.

  • QUESTION

    Now that he has his birth certificate available online it has quieted the questions. One thing some people don’t know is that if you are adopted or if you legally change your name it is forever changed on your birth certificate. Someone needs to look into court records to see if he went to court to change his name. I think it was done recently.

  • Vicki

    Well it has been said by the Muslim people that what better way to destroy something then from the inside. and Obama does practice the Muslim religion, for crying out loud, he doesn’t even place his hand over his heart for the Pledge, or the Anthem. Why are people going to place this man in our Main office and want to make him commander in chief, that is american political suicide. and i would love to see his ORIGINAL birth certificate, because i know he has not replied to the letter proving a rebutal over his BC. And we all know any presidential candidate will say anything that they think the american people want to hear, and when they finally get elected they can do what ever they want to do anyway. And no matter what various people think about the electoral vote being used to follow what the american people want, they can vote however they want to as well.

  • MelatoninFaq

    Barack Obama for me is the most charismatic president to be ever elected. He also makes great decisions, for example in the ecomomic stimulus package to counter the effects of recession.

  • Caramoan

    Barack Obama is not only a charismatic president but he is a very intelligent and smart person too. I congratulate him for winning a Nobel Peace Prize .
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