Obama Birth Certificate: Long Form Proves Ineligibility

By Douglas V. Gibbs

At long last Barack Hussein Obama has released the long form of his birth certificate. A couple years ago it was suggested that the White House was working on a forgery. If this is a forgery, then the question would be: Why wait so long to release the copy?

If it is not a forgery, then the question would be: Why wait so long to release the copy?

Could it be that as long as the people asking about his birth certificate were considered a fringe group of kooky loons, not releasing it made him look good because their lunacy made them look bad? But once more Americans began to ask, and it became a huge issue, the birth certificate issue began to make him look bad, therefore it was time to release the long-form.

Donald Trump, who has been pushing this issue of late, was not devastated at all, either. He thumped himself on the chest, saying that it took him to do what nobody else could accomplish.

When I heard about this earlier today, the radio broadcaster announced, "Obama has released the long form of his birth certificate, proving he was born in Hawaii, which makes him eligible to be President of the United States."

Not exactly.

My fascination with the birth certificate question has been not that without it he is ineligible, but instead, why was he not presenting it? What was Obama hiding? I wondered if under the father's name it read "Frank Marshall Davis," or something. But as I have explained a number of times, I really don't care if he was born in Hawaii, Kenya, Indonesia, or the moon. His eligibility for the presidency has hinged on the definition of Natural Born Citizen, and the definition of a Natural Born Citizen is not simply being born in the United States.

A woman recently argued with me at an event saying that us Tea Party folk had the 14th Amendment all screwed up, and that was why there was a question. She said, "It clearly states in the 14th Amendment that all one must do to be a natural born citizen is be born in the United States."

Not exactly. In fact, Natural Born Citizen is not mentioned in the 14th Amendment. The text of that amendment only covers citizenship, specifically in order to protect the children of the emancipated slaves. Natural Born Citizenship is only brought up in Article II where it requires the president to be such.

And where did the Founding Fathers get their definition of Natural Born Citizen?

Vatell's Law of Nations. And in section 212 of that book, it states:

§ 212. Citizens and natives.

The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.

Ben Franklin owned three copies of the book. Two for the Constitutional Convention, and one for himself. The importance of the Law of Nations was so prevalent that a couple years after the Constitutional Convention, George Washington checked it out from the New York Public Library. Unfortunately, for the library, he never returned the book.

So, on the long-form that has been presented, Barack Obama Sr. is listed as Barry's father. Barry has admitted himself that daddy was born in Kenya, and was not an American Citizen. But to be a Natural Born Citizen, both of your parents need to be Americans at the time of your birth. Therefore, regardless of any birth certificate, or other proof of where Barry was born, he is still ineligible.

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