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"Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president" Ledger-Enquirer

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:08:02 AM
Says he shouldn’t have to go to Afghanistan because Obama is not a U.S. citizen
 
 
[Other News on Obama's birth issue (7-22-09)
 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/07/22/nbc-wades-spreading-lies-about-president-obamas-u-s-citizenship

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By Brent Baker (Bio | Archive)
July 22, 2009 - 20:39 ET  

Daring to go where only cable has gone so far, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News waded into the rampant claims that 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 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.”

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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 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.

 
 


ALSO
The American Prospect ^ | July 21, 2009 | Adam Serwer
It's hard to believe, but more conservative luminaries seem to be latching onto the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama is not a United States citizen. Despite the fact that his birth certificate has been released, and there was an ad in the newspaper announcing his birth several days after he was born, both Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh have now come out of the closet as full blown birthers. Dave Weigel reported earlier this week that moderate Republican Congressman Mike Castle was booed by birthers at a town hall meeting earlier this month...]
 
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/51435567.html  Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs are among the professional talkers who peddle it, and a Republican congressman has even introduced legislation demanding that presidential candidates produce their birth certificates.

At a town hall meeting in Delaware earlier this month, Republican Rep. Mike Castle was confronted by a woman who ranted about Obama being a citizen of Kenya.

When Castle said, “He is a citizen of the United States,” the crowd booed.

FactCheck.org has seen and photographed Obama's original birth certificate, whose authenticity has been verified by Hawaii's Department of Health and registrar of vital statistics. But for the “birthers,” everyone else is lying and they are the only ones who know the truth. http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/51435567.html

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Soldier balks at deploying; says Obama isn’t president

By Lily Gordon From: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/776335.html

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U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, set to deploy to Afghanistan, says he shouldn’t have to go.  His reason?  Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States.

March 2009 dismissal of complaint

 

Cook’s lawyer, Orly Taitz, who has also challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency in other courts, filed a request last week in federal court seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector for his client.

In the 20-page document — filed July 8 with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Cook further states he “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. ... simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties.”

Cook, a reservist, received the orders mobilizing him to active duty on June 9.

According to this document, which accompanies Cook’s July 8 application for a temporary restraining order, he has been ordered to report to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday. From there, the Florida resident would go to Fort Benning before deploying overseas.

Documents show Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, two years after it became a state.

A hearing to discuss Cook’s requests will take place in federal court here Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

 
 
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