On The President's releasing of the long copy Birth Certificate

[raging_moderate]

Here is my post onto Facebook regarding President Obama's decision to release a certified copy of his long form birth certificate.


Some people are having a hard time understanding why President Obama didn't produce a certified copy of his long form birth certificate as opposed to only the legally required short one (which was sufficient for all previous presidents by the way - just not him). I imagine it like this for the first Black President of the United States' first day in office: Welcome Mr. President, here's the oval office sir, and here are your living quarters sir, here are the nuclear codes sir. Now show me your papers "boy". Anybody who doesn't appreciate the historical implications of this should be ashamed. We should all be ashamed.

The first US President who was born as a US citizen (not as a British "subject" from the colonies) was Andrew Jackson. After that, all Presidents were considered "naturally born" citizens born here in the USA after our independence from Great Britain. Five of those Presidents actually had one parent who was NOT an American born citizen. James Buchanan's father was Irish, coming here at age 22. Chester Arthur's father was also Irish and didn't become a US citizen until Chester Arthur was 14 yrs old. Woodrow Wilson's mother was an English citizen. Herbert Hoover's mother was Canadian. And yes, President Barack Obama's father was Kenyan. Why is it suddenly an issue? Think of the old Sesame Street song: "Four of these things belong together, four of these things are kind of the same".

So President Obama releases a certified copy of the form. Does it put the "issue" to rest? Of course not. "Just because he was born in Hawaii doesn't mean he's a citizen, because his father was bla... I mean, his father was Kenyan!" "I heard 'someone say' he was a bad student and find it suspicious that such a bla... I mean such a person could get into an Ivy League school." "I 'know' he didn't write his second book because it sounds 'too smart' for a bla... I mean for him to write it..... and I also have been able to decipher all on my own who secretly wrote it for him." You would think that the fact he graduated magnum cum laude from Harvard Law School and was the editor and then president of the Harvard Law Review would be ample evidence that he's not your average bear intellectually.

Those that are making this non-issue into one are one of two things. Racist themselves, or using the "issue" to gain traction among those that are racist to further their own political agendas. So what do we do? Simple. Don't let them.

[emulatorloo]

1. You've nailed it. n/t

[Richardo]

2. Nicely done

K&R

[CreekDog]

3. Excellent post

:hi:

[Raine1967]

4. Thanks you for pointing that out.

Andrew Jackson was born a citizen -- None of his predecessors were.