Group runs ad on Obama citizenship issue
The Chicago Tribune ran an ad by a group challenging Obama's citizenship. The Tribune story goes through most of the claims and pooh poohs them. I know there are some who are passionate about this issue, but I have not been among them. But I thought this paragraph near the end of the story might set a record for detached reporting:
BTW, the paper provided this image of Obama's birth certificate. Hawaii officials have vouched for its authenticity. I think they are probably right. I think the stories of a Kenyan birth just are not credible. The story takes a dispassionate look at all the claims.
...If the reporter does not know the costs of two days of full page ads in his own paper, is it any wonder that the newspaper business is in such trouble?
Schulz said his group also considered a similar ad in USA Today, but said the cost was prohibitive. He said his group considered both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Tribune, but said his group settled on the Tribune because of the size of its pages and its larger circulation. He would not specify how much his group spent on two days of full-page ads except to say they cost tens of thousands of dollars and were paid for by donations from supporters.
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BTW, the paper provided this image of Obama's birth certificate. Hawaii officials have vouched for its authenticity. I think they are probably right. I think the stories of a Kenyan birth just are not credible. The story takes a dispassionate look at all the claims.
This is NOT rocket science:
ReplyDeleteSince the Constitution’s Article II requires our President to be a “natural born citizen” (not merely “citizen” as allowed for those living when the Constitution was enacted) meaning both parents were US “citizens” when the child was born (parents not necessarily “natural born” citizens), there’s NO WAY Obama can be President — regardless of being born in Kenya OR Hawaii. Obama’s dad was NOT an American citizen. He was a citizen of the UK (ruling Kenya at the time). Case closed.