Tax activist's ad challenges Obama's eligibility for office (Chicago Trib)

[struggle4progress]

The Tribune examines allegations about president-elect's 'natural born citizen' status
By Sara Olkon and James Janega | Tribune reporters
December 3, 2008

An anti-tax activist from upstate New York who is questioning whether President-elect Barack Obama is a "natural born citizen" eligible for the nation's top job said Tuesday that his non-profit group spent "tens of thousands of dollars" to get his message across in ads in the Chicago Tribune this week.

Robert L. Schulz, 69, chairman of We The People Foundation, took out ads Monday and Wednesday to raise questions about whether Obama's Hawaii certificate of live birth is authentic ...

... The Queensbury, N.Y., man has been active on tax issues for nearly 30 years. Last year, a senior judge in the Northern District of New York ordered Schulz to shut down a Web site that sold advice on avoiding taxes ...

He hopes the Tribune ads bring his group prominence ...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-obama-ad-03-dec03,0,3124041.story?track=rss

[bluestateguy]

1. Maybe the Obama Administration's IRS should see if this man has been paying his taxes

Just a thought.

[noiretextatique]

2. •Schulz says that legal affidavits state Obama was born in Kenya.

:dunce:
The affidavits that Schulz refers to are filings by the Obama critics themselves in the court cases challenging Obama's citizenship.
:rofl:

[JDPriestly]

3. This is so ridiculous. Why would Obama's parents have gone

back to Kenya for his birth? My children were born overseas -- because we had been living there quite some time before they were born. No American woman would go to Kenya to have a baby unless she was a famous movie star and could count on the best best best medical care. It is a ridiculous idea.