The court case in Georgia regarding Obama’s birth certificate is interesting. However, it is neither as great as his detractors hope, nor as harmless as his supporters pretend.
Based on everything I have seen, the odds of Obama being born in Kenya approach zero. Regardless of the birth certificate issue, there is no evidence that his parents ever lived together as husband and wife. Barack Obama, Sr. already had a wife in Kenya. It is very unlikely that he would have taken Obama’s mother to Kenya or anywhere else. The last thing he would have wanted to do is bring and American wife over to Kenya.
I strongly suspect that the birth certificate is a reproduction based on legitimate imaged records and that Obama will have little problem proving he was born in Hawaii. I think he wants people to challenge his birth certificate, because it is the only document that does support his personal history. It is, in my opinion, a red herring.
Obama’s father was definitely not a U.S. citizen. This has never been disputed. While this makes for an interesting legal argument, I think even Republicans would probably support a finding that he is a natural born citizen, if this is the only issue. His mother clearly was a natural born citizen and that would probably carry the day.
A much bigger problem is the possibility that he was adopted by an Indonesian man who may have registered Obama as an Indonesian citizen. This is a very complex subject, so I included a link to an excellent article that describes this in detail:
http://www.visaus.com/citizen.html
The main point is that this is far from automatic. I suspect that Obama did nothing to regain his citizenship, probably because no one thought it was important at the time. However, he is extremely unlikely to be removed from office because of his dual citizenship.
His selective service records have inconsistencies, but odds are that Obama did register for the draft in late July of 1980. The draft was suspended completely in 1975, under President Ford, primarily because of widespread opposition by Democrats in congress. In 1980 Carter was President and he wanted to put this issue to rest. In 1977 Carter had pardoned all the draft dodging cowards who fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Vietnam. In July of 1980, he reinstated registering for selective service, with a promise to never draft anyone. Proclamation 4771 was issued by Carter on July 2, 1980. If you want to read the proclamation, here is the link:
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/proclamations/04771.html
Since Obama was born on August 4, 1961, he was required to register within six days of July 28, 1980. He apparently signed the registration on July 29, 1980 and it was processed effective September 4, 1980. The timing is consistent with the political reality of the time.
As mentioned above, there are some inconsistencies with Obama’s Selective Service records, as there are with virtually all of his documents. For example he signed it July 30, 1980, but it is date stamped July 29, 1980. There are other potential problems that have caused some people to consider this document a forgery. But it seems likely that Obama would have been well aware of what was going on and the vast majority of college students his age took advantage of Carter’s get out of jail free card.
A more serious problem for Obama is the allegation that he has used multiple social security numbers. There are even reports that he used potentially fraudulent social security numbers. In the Georgia case, for the first time, this issue came up. That makes this the first court that has actually demanded Obama produce any documents. There are so many questions about Obama’s personal history that the production of any documents at all has the potential to create serious problems for him.
I wouldn’t hold my breath expecting Obama to be declared ineligible for the Presidency any time soon. For one thing, there simply is not enough time for this to wind its way through the legal process before the 2012 election. I also would counsel any Republican who cares about their country to serious consider the consequences if Obama was removed from office for any reason. Joe Biden would become President of the United, which in and of itself should be a concern. But more important, it would immediately insert Hillary Clinton as the nominee of the Democratic Party for the 2012 election and she is a far more dangerous candidate than Obama. Quite bluntly, ten more months of Obama will do less damage to the country than the risk of electing Hillary Clinton to a full four year term.
In any event, this is a significant event that is being ignored by the main stream media. It could, like most other stories about Obama’s birth certificate, die a quick death. But it is at least a major departure from previous court hearings where Obama was able to obtain dismissals without producing any documents at all.
TDM