My Mother's Birth Certificate - And Barack's

by Joan Swirsky - October 27th, 2008 - The Bulletin (Philadelphia)

While Mr. Obama's camp submitted a supposedly authentic birth certificate to the far-left blog Daily Kos, it was found to have been a Photoshop-ed version of the birth certificate of his half-sister, who was actually born in Hawaii, as Mr. Obama claims he was.

While this glaring omission in Mr. Obama's eligibility to become the most powerful man on earth mystified some and rankled others, a few people - clearly alarmed at what they considered a stealth candidate's attempt to dance his way around the Constitution and venture into the realm of criminality - took action.

According to the plaintiffs in the lawsuits against him, Mr. Obama was really born in the Coast Provincial General Hospital at Mombassa, Kenya on Aug. 4, 1961, a birth that was documented by a certificate with an embossed seal that displays the name of the hospital, as well as witness signatures. In addition, reports say his grandmother in Kenya, as well as his brother and sister, claim they were present during Mr. Obama's birth in Kenya.

You would think that the MSM, if it wants any claim to responsibility, would have unravelled this ongoing controversy. Yet they haven't.

This is not a trivial issue. Yet after more than a year of this rumor the controversy remains because there has been no resolution. The lack of resolution seems to demand that Barack Obama and his campaign allow for the research to be done in Hawaii and Kenya. Their only response has been to insist that no investigation is needed and to sabotage any attempt to resolve the issue.

After his election, the way Obama treated the TV station in Florida that asked Joe Biden some tough questions will become the "law" of the land. This issue will never be resolved after that occurrence.