Promises of "transparency" ignored in quest to find Obama’s birth place Thursday, 06.18.2009, 04:37pm (GMT)
Commentary by James L. Lambert
I remember the story of a little league team a few years back that was disqualified during the Little League World Series. Apparently, the team was disqualified because one of its key players was older than he claimed to be. The tournament ruled the player and his team ineligible. In hindsight, it’s too bad that the league’s baseball officials didn’t carefully verify the player’s long form birth certificate prior to the start of play. All the grief from this episode could have been avoided.
Over the last year, various lawyers, (starting with PA. attorney Philip Berg), have filed dozens of briefs to try to discover exactly where Barack Hussein Obama was born. Hundreds of thousands of United States citizens have signed petitions and would also like to know. They, like myself, would like to identify where Barack Hussein Obama was born, in what city and in what hospital.
Why is this important? The Constitution of the United States requires that every candidate for the Office of the President of the United States be a “natural born citizen.” Article II, Section I of the Constitution says that “no person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of the President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.”
The rule of law still matters. Law makers in Washington need to abide by the same laws that they expect us to. Over and over again, these politicians and bureaucrats reiterated their promises of transparency. It was a hallmark of Obama’s 2008 campaign. Yet people are still waiting for transparency, especially on this matter. I wonder why it is so difficult for us to find the simple truth.
Certainly ‘the certificate of live birth’ Obama’s representatives show on the Internet proves nothing. A number of forgery experts tell us it’s an obvious forgery. Also, three different relatives of the President are on record as saying he was born in three different hospitals.
Again, Mr. President, where were you born, and in what hospital? If you ever decide to provide this information, the people would like to have access to the hospital’s records so we can verify your statement. You have promised “transparency”, so let’s put the rhetoric into action.
Finally, as the readers, you have to ask yourself: why would the President spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers to block something that only costs $15 to produce?
James L. Lambert, a frequent contributor to ChristianMirror.net and author of Porn in America, is a licensed nationwide real-estate mortgage loan sales agent and can be contacted through his website.