Obama citizenship and birth certificate issue

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Ed Morrissey /HotAir misleads about Obama birth certificate - 12/04/2008

... of people misleading about the Obama citizenship issue. As with others, he links to the Sara Olkon/James Janega article and, among many other misleading statements, says: The State of Hawaii only keeps birth certificates from births in Hawaii. The State of California only keeps birth certificates from births in California, Minnesota only keeps those from births in Minnesota, and so on. They don�...

Dionne Searcey /Wall Street Journal lies about Obama birth certificate being "authenticated" - 12/04/2008

... her lie; see that link and the Obama citizenship summary for the details.

Rick Montgomery/ Kansas City Star lies about Obama birth certificate - 12/04/2008

... others dealing with the issue of obama citizenship in "Anti-Obama bloggers challenge birthplace", link. The sentence below contains one lie and two misleading statements: The argument is over his place of birth - Hawaii, if you accept statements by Hawaiian officials, his 1961 birth notice in a Honolulu newspaper and a certified document his campaign obtained 18 months ago. As detailed ...

Sara Olkon, James Janega/Chicago Tribune lie about Obama birth certificate being authenticated - 12/04/2008

Sara Olkon and James Janega of the Chicago Tribune offer "Tax activist's ad challenges Obama's eligibility for office" (link), a supposed fact-checking article that contains a few variations on the same lie. They falsely claim that Hawaii officials have authenticated the supposed Barack Obama birth certificate as shown on his site and at FactCheck. In fact, all those officials ...

Marc Ambinder pretends Obama's citizenship isn't a "legit" topic - 12/03/2008

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic - a blogger who tries to pretend that he's a real reporter - offers "Discourse Watch: Obama's Citizenship A Legit Topic?" (link) in which he falsely states that questions over where exactly Barack Obama was born are "specious" and have "been convincingly refuted". At his post, the last bit links to Snopes, which is not a reliabl...

Alan Keyes petitions court over Barack Obama's eligibility; guess: he has standing - 11/15/2008

Gadabout Alan Keyes - last seen running for president under the banner of the American Independent Party - has filed a court petition in California trying to block the CA Secretary of State (Democrat Debra Bowen) from certifying that state's results for Barack Obama. Details here. The previous attempt by Philip Berg ran aground when the judge in that case ruled that he didn't have stand...

Obama's October surprise-ish: State of Hawaii says his birth certificate is genuine (but...) - 10/31/2008

[See the 12/05/08 update below] The Associated Press offers an article perhaps misleadingly titled "State declares Obama birth certificate genuine" (link). There are some problems with the article, as will be discussed below. State officials say there's no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of...

The Non-Partisan Case Against Barack Obama - 10/29/2008

You don't have to be a conservative or a Republican to be opposed to Barack Obama. Here are some of the reasons that almost anyone should oppose him: 1. PERSONALITY CULT As a host of Youtube videos, comments on blogs, chants at rallies, and even tattoos show, Obama clearly has a growing personality cult. About the only policy positions some of those supporters could name would be "hope&q...

Where was Barack Obama born? In Hawaii? In Kenya? Somewhere else? - 10/19/2008

(Please see the Obama citizenship page for the latest.) Was Barack Obama born in Hawaii, or Kenya, or somewhere else? He claims to have been born in Hawaii, but no definitive proof has been provided. It is a false statement to definitively state that he was born in Hawaii, as some media sources have done. The most they should state is that there's a very strong possibility that he was born...

Karen Tumulty misleads for Barack Obama (Jeffrey Frederick) - 10/12/2008

Karen Tumulty of Time Magazine offers this bit of mainstream media wisdom designed explicitly to support Barack Obama. It starts with something that could have been written by the BHO campaign: If John McCain is as serious as he says about running a "respectful" campaign against an opponent he considers "a decent person," word hasn't yet trickled down to his newly opened s...

Is "Barack Obama" a complete scam? (Philip Berg lawsuit; Indonesia) - 10/11/2008

Could "Barack Obama" be a complete fake? Hillary Clinton supporter and decades-long Democrat Philip Berg is suing Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), claiming he's not eligible to be president. From this: the Plaintiff, Philip J. Berg, a Philadelphia attorney, alleged that Defendant Barack Hussein Obama is not eligible for the Office of the President because Ob...

FactCheck recompresses, removes EXIF data from Obama birth certificate photos - 9/30/2008

Back on August 21, FactCheck released photos apparently showing Barack Obama's birth certificate (actually his "Certification of Live Birth" or "COLB"). At the time, I noted that the EXIF information (added by the camera) showed that the pictures had been shot months before and I mentioned such possibilities as them not setting up their camera correctly, a bad battery, and...

FactCheck presents real Barack Obama birth certificate. Or do they... - 8/21/2008

The twists and turns surrounding Barack Obama's birth certificate appear to have ended with FactCheck.org claiming that they've seen and handled the real certificate, complete with an official stamp and everything. They've even got pictures here. Well, that ends that! Except, all they have is the "Certification of Live Birth" (known in the trade as a "COLB"), and...

Barack Obama is a dual citizen? Kenya? Indonesia? Sister's name on birth certificate? - 8/10/2008

Is Barack Obama a dual citizen of Kenya? The "Things you might not know about Barack Obama" post from "The Rocky" of the Rocky Mountain News (link) drops this bomb in the middle of their list: Holds both American and Kenyan (since 1963) citizenship. That's from four days ago and no correction is appended.

Eli Saslow/WaPo lies in support of Barack Obama - 6/30/2008

Eli Saslow of the Washington Post lies in support of Barack Obama while giving him a front page advertisement in the story "In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying" (link). Consider this: On the television in his living room, Peterman has watched enough news and campaign advertisements to hear the truth: Sen. Barack Obama, born in Hawaii, is a Christian family man with a track re...

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