AIPNEWS exclusive

July 22, 2009

By Tom Hoefling, Chairman, America's Independent Party

For many months, AIP affiliates all across the nation have been pursuing the truth about whether or not Barack Obama is constitutionally qualified to be President of the United States. In addition to several key court challenges filed by leaders in the party, our people - regular constitution-loving, freedom-loving, patriotic citizens - have persistently kept this critically-important story alive. They are proving the practicality and viability of our goal of "becoming the media."

To date, the American people have been deprived by the Obama faction of every key document that could settle this supremely important controversy once and for all. Instead of simply expending the ten dollars it would take to release Mr. Obama's long-form birth certificate, huge sums of money have instead been spent on multiple attorneys tasked with extending the cover-up.

In addition to his real birth certificate, one that shows where he was born and who the attending physician was, other documents which are needed to get at the whole story also remain under strict embargo: his college records, his student financial aid applications and documentation, and his passport records, to name a few.

For the most part, the question of Obama's natural-born status has been met with silence from the dying dinosaur liberal media establishment. When mentioned at all, it is with the sort of scorn and derision you would expect from any other group of Democratic Party apparatchiks.

Similarly, elected officials in the Democrat AND the Republican parties have met the millions of inquiries from the people they work for with either silence or obfuscation. The reply form letters sent back, even from GOP officials, to the mountain of requests for the redress of this grievance have all pretty much read the same: a pathetic repetition of the Obama faction's lying, long-ago-discredited, talking points. No surprise, I suppose, considering the fact that not one of these people raised a single question when they verified the Electoral College vote, even though everyone was aware there was a major problem with this man's qualifications, and that there was no credible proof on the table that Barack Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States of America, as the Constitution unequivocally requires to be President, or even a citizen at all.

But still, this story will not die. The facts of the case are so simple and straightforward, the constitutional requirement so clear, thinking Americans just cannot be ridiculed into silence by the craven hacks in politics or the media.

The burden of proof that Barack Obama is qualified for office remains on Barack Obama. If those who are supposed to represent you will not demand that proof, it is up to you to do so, loudly and persistently.

In recent days, suddenly, the Left and their minions in the press corps are on the counter-attack. The internet is crawling with disinformation and vile personal attacks by the Obama crowd on those who simply want our Constitution to be followed.

Now is the time for courage and determination to get at the truth. If you love our Constitution, you must speak up loudly and boldly like never before. Don't wait for someone else to speak for you. Speak for yourself. Act like an American.

The flak may be getting heavy, but that can only mean one thing: we must be approaching the target.

For Life and Liberty,

Tom Hoefling

tom@aipnews.com

Also posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2298574/posts

And here:

http://www.lifeandlibertyreport.com/llr/

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Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune beginning to argue that even if Obama was born outside the US, the Constitution and our laws are a mere technicality:

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NBC Wades Into 'Spreading Lies about [Alleged] President Obama's...U.S. Citizenship'

Daring to go where only cable has gone so far, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News waded into the rampant claims that [Alleged] President Barack Obama -- though he was born in a U.S. state and to a mother who was a U.S. citizen, so even if he were born in Kenya he'd still be a U.S. citizen -- is somehow really not one. Anchor Brian Williams didn't hide his disdain, teasing the newscast: “Spreading lies about [Alleged] President Obama's birthplace and about his U.S. citizenship. Who's doing it and why?”

(Too bad Williams didn't show such concern for wild allegations in late 2004 and into 2005 that President Bush was illegitimate when colleague Keith Olbermann spent months using his MSNBC show to hype claims Ohio voting machines were manipulated to deny John Kerry's win which would have given him the presidency.)

After video of a woman in Delaware shouting at a Congressman over Obama's citizenship, Williams fretted: “A lot of us live with this issue; we get e-mails, we get asked about it.” Exaggerating the extent of the attention the issue gets on the right, reporter Pete Williams declared: “It hasn't gone away, becoming a staple of blogs and conservative talk radio.” He soon asserted that “legal scholars -- liberal and conservative alike -- are in widespread agreement that Barack Obama is fully qualified.”

Outlining the evidence, Williams noted how “Obama's campaign long ago released his birth certificate showing that he was born in Hawaii after it joined the union,” how the state has the original and how “the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper faxed us its birth announcements from August 13, 1961, noting that a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama.”

Pete Williams noted how “one conservative talk show host considers the citizenship issue frivolous.” In a soundbite, Michael Medved sensibly pointed out: “We are just right now getting real traction on some of the issues regarding [Alleged] President Obama, his expansion of government, his spending, this, this is resonating with the American people. This is a terrible distraction. And it makes us look crazy and angry and fringy and irresponsible.”

Not sure I've ever heard “fringy” used before in a news story.

To conclude, Pete Williams recalled how citizenship questions have been raised by other candidates, but ones who didn't take office: “John McCain, born in the Panama Canal Zone, Barry Goldwater born in Arizona when it was still a territory and Mitt Romney's father, George, born in Mexico.”

From the Wednesday, July 22 NBC Nightly News:

BRIAN WILLIAMS: We have a piece of videotape to show you tonight that's starting to receive wide circulation. It's the question that won't seem to go away for [Alleged] President Barack Obama even though it's been answered. The issue of the President's birth place, and American citizenship, has become a kind of conspiracy theory. This is what happened when Republican Congressman Mike Castle of Delaware called on a woman in the audience at a recent town meeting.

WOMAN: Why are you people ignoring his birth certificate? (cheers and applause) He is not an American citizen! He is a citizen of Kenya. I am American. My father worked, fought in World War II with the greatest generation in the Pacific theater for this country, and I don't want this flag to change. I want my country back! (cheers and applause)

CASTLE: If you're referring to the President there, he is a citizen of the United States. (boos) He is a citizen of the United States.

WOMAN: I think we should all stand up and give Pledge of Allegiance to that wonderful flag.

BRIAN WILLIAMS: ...A lot of us live with this issue; we get e-mails, we get asked about it. Our  Justice Department correspondent Pete Williams is going to join in on this conversation from Washington. Pete, no matter how untrue this comes up at a lot of public gatherings now?

PETE WILLIAMS: ...It hasn't gone away, becoming a staple of blogs and conservative talk radio.

AUDIO OF LOU DOBBS ON THE RADIO: All the President of the United States has to do is produce a birth certificate.

AUDIO OF RUSH LIMBAUGH: Barack Obama has yet to have to prove he is a citizen.

PETE WILLIAMS And lawsuits challenging the President's citizenship have been filed in and thrown out of courts around the country. But legal scholars -- liberal and conservative alike -- are in widespread agreement that Barack Obama is fully qualified. The Constitution says only a “natural born citizen” can be President. And though the Supreme Court has never said exactly what that means, legal authorities agree that at the very least it covers any one actually born inside the United States.

Obama's campaign long ago released his birth certificate showing that he was born in Hawaii after it joined the union. State officials say Hawaiian law blocks release of the document signed by doctors the day he was born, but issued a statement saying they have “personally seen and verified” it. And the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper faxed us its birth announcements from August 13, 1961, noting that a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama. One conservative talk show host considers the citizenship issue frivolous.

MICHAEL MEDVED: We are just right now getting real traction on some of the issues regarding [Alleged] President Obama, his expansion of government, his spending, this, this is resonating with the American people. This is a terrible distraction. And it makes us look crazy and angry and fringy and irresponsible.

PETE WILLIAMS: Similar questions have dogged other presidential candidates. John McCain, born in the Panama Canal Zone, Barry Goldwater born in Arizona when it was still a territory and Mitt Romney's father, George, born in Mexico. And in 1881, when Chester A. Arthur became President, his political opponents questioned whether he was actually born in Vermont or somewhat further north -- in Canada. Brian?

BRIAN WILLIAMS: So many conspiracy theories, so little time.

The Shaming of Lou Dobbs

Washington Independent 

7/22/09

Dave Weigel

Alex Koppelman is a must-read on the subject of Lou Dobbs, and his decision to trust the incredibly strange, discredited conspiracy theories of people like Orly Taitz over the word of the government of Hawaii.

When he brought Keyes and Taitz on his show, he mentioned that he’d asked Taitz, off-air, whether the release of a long form birth certificate would satisfy her. “She said no,” Dobbs told his audience, and then directed the question to her again. “Both parents have to be citizens in order to satisfy the requirements of natural-born citizen,” Taitz responded. In other words, for the de facto leader of the movement, her questions can never go away, because Obama’s father was a British citizen at the time of his son’s birth.

Dobbs, who won a Peabody Award in 1987, is effectively destroying his career with this stuff.

Read more at washingtonindependent.com ...

Apparently Washington insider and Hardball host must have got a shooting pain up his leg when he tried to attack congressman Campbell.

Chris Matthews Wrong on Obama Birth Certificate

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:33 PM By: Jim Meyers (Newsmax  reports)

Matthews on Tuesday said Campbell was "playing to the crazies" by supporting the "crazy" bill, and the congressman shot back that it was all about "putting the matter to rest."

Matthews also accused Campbell of "feeding the wacko wing of your party," and held up what he called a copy of the supposed Obama birth certificate.
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But Obama’s refusal to release his birth certificate does mean that Obama remains one of America’s most mysterious and opaque presidents ever.

Obama, for example, has not released many other documents regarding his public and private life.

Many of these documents were sought by reporters, who easily acquiesced when Obama said he would not release them – though most presidential candidates release them as a perfunctory matter. Among the key documents that Obama continues to shield from the public:

Bias Alert
NBC's Snyderman: 'I Was Rooting for the President to Hit a Home Run'
Media Research Center
Brent Baker
July 23, 2009

NBC's medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, was “rooting” for [Alleged] President Barack Obama to do well in selling his health care takeover during his Wednesday night press conference: “As a physician, you know, I felt like I understood the complexity of the problem. As an American citizen, I was rooting for the President to hit a home run.”

On the 10 PM EDT Hardball an hour after Obama wrapped up, Snyderman, who hosts the noon EDT weekday hour on MSNBC, fretted that he had “whiffed” in not making some persuasive points, such as using “plain talk to take the scare out of things like rationing, which basically is what's going on now -- some people get medicines, some people don't. It didn't come through tonight.” She also ominously warned of disaster if Obama does not prevail: “We're going to pay big time if we don't get this. I don't think we're going to be a great world power.”

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