Don't look, birthers: Obama's passport

[RamboLiberal]

Here's something new for the birthers to chew over: President Barack Obama's passport. Says he was born in Hawaii! But the White House has strategically fuzzed out certain data, so the mystery continues.

Now, it's his official passport, which means it's new, so the true believers will not be persuaded. Not that they ever would.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0810/Dont_look_birthers_Obamas_passport.html?showall

The WH had a little video and was answering a letter if the POTUS passport gets stamped just like any citizen's passport.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/08/13/west-wing-week-mailbag-day-summer-edition

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Lalalala! I can't hear you!!! *fingers in my ears*

[Xipe Totec]

2. Hawai`i Pono`i

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pzS_lrocjg

Son of Hawaii
rises in the Capitol,
shines in the White House.

[Hekate]

18. That's a great link. One song leads to another, now I'm listening to Iz singing "Hawai'i Aloha"

"E Hawai'i e ku'u one hanau e Ku'u home..."
~~~~~~~~


Xipe Totec, I think your new verse fits right in.

Hekate


HAWAI'I PONO'I
by King David Kalakaua

Hawaiʻi ponoʻī

Nānā i kou moʻi

Ka lani aliʻi,

Ke aliʻi.

Makua lani e,

Kamehameha e

Nā kaua e pale

Me ka ihe.

[hughee99]

3. I understand it's the law, but I don't see why it should be a requirement

that a president is a US BORN citizen anyway.

[polmaven]

6. It is more than "the law".

It is a Constitutional requirement. I really don't know what was behind that either. It is interesting, though, that there is some talk that it really does not say that he/she has to be physically born on US soil. "Natural born" may just mean citizen from birth, not NATURALIZED. The SCOTUS has never reviewed the question.

[hughee99]

9. I can understand why it would be a requirement that the president

be a citizen, I don't understand why it matters the circumstances under which that citizenship was gained.

[kestrel91316]

13. It was probably the Founders' intent to make sure no president had

divided loyalties. Seems pretty basic to me.

[hughee99]

15. Fair enough, but why would this be such a guarantee?

In either case, is it still a valid reason? Someone born in the US might have less appreciation and loyalty to this country than one who struggled to get here and become a citizen. Shouldn't a candidate's loyalty be left to the voters to decide rather than determined by something that a person has no control over?

[kestrel91316]

23. No, it shouldn't. Voters are stupid.

[hughee99]

25. You can really determine a person's loyalties based on the location

of their birth?

[LiberalFighter]

16. I believe that issue was of great concern because of the split from Great Britain.

They probably didn't want an influx of British coming over and then getting elected and turning the government back over to England.

[HipChick]

27. I don't think England wants the colonies back,unless they become profitable again

[polmaven]

20. Agreed...

I do recall that shortly after Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor, there was some ripple about a Constitutional Amendment to repeal that section so that he would be allowed to become president.

[Greyskye]

4. But they blurred out...

...the date of issue and the expiration date! However can we believe it?!?11





:sarcasm:

The birther comments at the politico link are stunning in their stupidity. Sigh. This doesn't seem to slow them down an iota.

[d_r]

5. I read some of the comments

They really are stupid.

What is a "long form birth certificate" anyway, and why don't I or any of my kids have one?

[Ikonoklast]

7. Or 'vault copy'. I love that one.

Like there is a huge underground facility full of paper birth certificates.

The morons don't even realize every state stores birth certificates digitally, and a copy is downloaded and printed out when needed.

Like a clerk is going to go to a file cabinet somewhere in a musty basement to look for a forty year-old document.

[RC]

8. 40? Try 65

[pnwmom]

14. It's a type of birth certificate that some states have, but not Hawaii.

Hawaii used to have a long form and a short form. But years ago -- when the system went electronic -- they switched to one simple computerized form. And that's all anyone gets.

[d_r]

21. ohhh I see, thanks for explaining that

[Arkana]

10. Why did they release this? It just legitimizes those morons' "concerns".

Just keep ignoring them, I say. Sure, they haven't gone away, but ignoring them has at least kept them at the very fringes.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Those kenyans...

Sure make authentic looking passports :rofl:

[disillusioned73]

24. Love the screen name..

thatz about the time I "woke up" as well

[DinahMoeHum]

12. The "birthers" are nothing but racist pigs. Fuck 'em. . .

Fuck 'em with a rusty chainsaw.

:nuke:

[Seneca]

17. HE HAS A RED COMMUNIST STAR ON HIS FOREHEAD!!!!11

THE MARK OF THE SOCIALIST FASCIST BEAST!!!!!!!1

[progressoid]

22. Ah ha!! You saw that too!! And what does, "see page 51" refer too?

We need a Freedom of Information release for page 51!!!11!1

[Seneca]

26. It's code for AREA 51

Where Obama keeps his alien parents from planet Kenya frozen in carbonite!

[old mark]

19. This is obviously a CIA generated fake ...or if not, it's a bad copy

of someone elses passport...or if it's real, why has he been to Russia so much? Going to get instructions from the Communists? Oh, wait, the commies are gone from Russia now....Um...something is wrong with it, just let me look at it again...

This will be good for them to argue about till 2012, then it will all begin again.

This is Obama's Whitewater,whatever the fuck THAT was about-there are still people moaning about it.

mark

[Blue_Tires]

28. OUR PREZUHDINT HAS A RED COMMIE STAR TATTOO ON HIS HEAD