Fight the Smears: The Truth About Barack's Birth Certificate (fightthesmears.com)

Posted Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:48 pm

The site fightthesmears.com has been offline for a couple days for an unknown reason. For public interest reasons, the following is a copy of most of fightthesmears.com/articles/5/birthcertificate, the page that has a picture of what Barack Obama claims is his certification of live birth ("COLB"). The first section between horizontal lines is the center portion of that page; the section below that contains the text of two messages the Obama campaign wanted their supporters to send via email.

The serious problems with the quotes in the first section (from FactCheck and Eli Saslow of the Washington Post) are discussed at length at the last link and here. See the Obama citizenship issue for our comprehensive - and completely fact-based - coverage of this issue. Most of what you've heard about this issue from others is false.

The Truth About Barack’s Birth Certificate

Smears claiming Barack Obama doesn’t have a birth certificate aren’t actually about that piece of paper — they’re about manipulating people into thinking Barack is not an American citizen.

The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America.

Next time someone talks about Barack’s birth certificate, make sure they see this page.

Barack Obama's Official Birth CertificateThe Washington Post Debunks Smears, Confirms Barack’s Citizenship
WashingtonPost.com

“The truth: Sen. Barack Obama, born in Hawaii, is a Christian family man with a track record of public service.”

Read this Article: washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901871.html

FactCheck.org Clarifies Barack’s Citizenship

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

Read this Article: factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_barack_obama_have_kenyan_citizenship.html

The following are two email messages the Obama campaign wanted their supporters to send:

Hi everyone! People who are determined to keep us divided start these rumors about Barack’s birth certificate to manipulate us into thinking he is not an American citizen. The fact is Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America. Learn the facts and see the birth certificate for yourself: my.barackobama.com/birthcertificate Together we can make sure these negative and divisive attacks don't affect this election. Thanks for your help. Download a PDF version for printing.

And:

Friend -- Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America. Smears claiming Barack Obama doesn’t have a birth certificate aren’t really about a piece of paper, though -- they're about manipulating you into thinking Barack is different. See Barack Obama's birth certificate for yourself and help push back with the truth: http://my.barackobama.com/birthcertificate Together we can make sure these negative and divisive attacks don't affect this election. Thanks for your help.

UPDATE: To be precise, it's a "Certification of Live Birth", not a "Certificate of Live Birth". Also, the page my.barackobama.com/page/invite/birthcert still exists and has a small copy of the certificate. It contains a Javascript redirect to the FTS page which doesn't exist anymore.

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Comments

ChiTownGuy (not verified)

Fri, 07/10/2009 - 12:37

First and foremost, I would like to assume that Obama does a viable birth certificate and is a US Citizen but please at the very least do some due dilligence on the matter before you write an article about it. It makes you look foolish. What you are displaying is a Certificate of Live Birth NOT let me repeat NOT a Birth Certificate. There is a difference. In 1961, if a child was born out of the country but to a US Citizen and comes back to the US through Hawaii, they had to in essence register the child as a US Citizen. They are then granted a Certificate of Live Birth NOT a Birth Certificate. A Certifcate of Live Birth does not prove that Obama was born on US soil and you must be born on US soil to be President of the US. Please read below. Hawaii Admits: "Obama's Hawaiian certification of live birth not acceptable as a birth certificate" by John Michael Rivera on June 7, 2009 VIRGINIA – Hawaiian Department of Health spokeswoman stated that the Hawaiian certification of live birth that Obama posted on his website as proof of birth, would not be accepted in Hawaii or meet federal government requirements.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Fri, 07/10/2009 - 15:20

the fact is we can't do a thing about this now is lost to many people in this nation any who follow it will be called a racists is funny to me. also in 1961 using the word caucasian for the race of his mother was not used to I.D. The race of people until 1968 is also a dead give-away that obama, "so called birth", was not in the USA. The fact is so many thing point to the fact that obama is not A REAL American is funny but we also know the usa is under the control of our enemies and we all know people will do nothing about this fact, so whats new?