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By Rich Rogers rrogers@nbcaugusta.com and NBC Augusta Staff
Story Published: Nov 18, 2008 at 9:52 AM EST
Story Updated: Nov 18, 2008 at 8:16 PM EST
SACRAMENTO, Calif.- A former opponent of Barack Obama's has come back to haunt him over questions regarding Obama's citizenship.
According to a press release from the American Independent Party, former presidential candidate Alan Keyes and other members of the party have filed suit in California Superior Court in Sacramento to stop the state from giving its electoral votes to President-elect Barack Obama until documentary evidence is provided to prove Obama is indeed a natural born citizen of the United States.
Keyes also ran against Obama as a Republican for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois in 2004. Obama won that election to serve his first and only term in the U.S. Senate.
The Obama campaign countered similar accusations early in 2008 by posting Obama's certification of live birth, and saying: "Barack Obama was born in the state of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America."
A copy of this document is available from the Obama campaign:
6:27 PM Nancy wrote ...
I looked at the certificate online and something jumped out, very noticeable. It's 1961, there's no PC, I did volunteer work in a hospital about that time. The races weren't put on certificates as the country of origin, actual race was used. Like I said it jumps out, it smells fishy.
6:27 PM TennesseeThinker wrote ...
I am not happy about the outcome of this election. I am a conservative Christian and was not particularly fond of McCain, either. However, I am distressed and embarrassed that many on the right are such sore losers. The system worked the way it's supposed to work. We have a new President-elect and we need to deal with it. Also, it is inconceivable to me that the powers behind Obama's campaign would be careless or arrogant enough to risk his eligibility on a technicality. Let's move on!
6:27 PM nobody wrote ...
this is NOT a birth certificate it a certificate of live birth and not a legal document
6:24 PM YouTalkingToMe wrote ...
The NBC Augusta form is a post 2001 copy (note form's revision date in the fine print in the bottom left corner). The real Birth Certificate is the one with the delivering doctor's signature. That is the only one that would constitute proof. Anyone with a typewriter and a blank form could produce the NBC Augusta form.
6:23 PM Because the voters said so wrote ...
"I am still wondering how a man with the name Barack Huesein Obama won an American Presidential election?" ------------------ I guess there just weren't enough racists who voted against him because of his name to defeat him.
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We're in 'good shape' over Obama's birthplace
Presidential spokeswoman suggests there's no controversy
Posted: November 18, 2008
10:27 pm Eastern
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President Bush doesn't have a significant level of concern over allegations, including those pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, that Barack Obama does not meet the constitutional requirements to be commander in chief in the United States.
"Does the White House believe there is no question at all about the birthplace, and thus the required U.S. citizenship of the president-elect?" Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, asked at a news briefing today.
"I think we're in good shape on that," responded Dana Perino, the spokeswoman for the president.
WND reported just days ago when presidential candidate Alan Keyes brought a lawsuit over the location of Obama's birth. The Constitution is specific in demanding a "natural-born" citizen of the U.S. as its president, excluding "naturalized" citizens and others.
Alan Keyes
The lawsuit said the California secretary of state should refuse to allow the state's 55 Electoral College votes to be cast in the 2008 presidential election until Obama verifies his eligibility to hold the office. There have been various reports – and a multitude of questions raised – about whether Obama was born in the U.S., and even if he was, whether he retained citizenship in Indonesia.
The legal action was just the latest in a series of challenges, some of which have gone as high as the U.S. Supreme Court, over the issue of Obama's status as a "natural-born citizen."
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WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi even traveled to Kenya and Hawaii prior to the election to investigate issues surrounding Obama's birth. But his research and discoveries only raised more questions.
The biggest question is why Obama, if a Hawaii birth certificate exists as he stated, simply hasn't ordered it made available to settle the rumors.
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born, but there have been suggestions he actually was born in Kenya.
The Keyes action challenges: "Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal."
An Obama spokesperson interviewed by WND described the lawsuits as "garbage."
But last week, WND reported more than half a dozen other legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding Obama's decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.
Among the states where cases are being tracked are Ohio, Connecticut, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Hawaii. There were also reports of other cases in Utah, Wyoming, Florida, New York, North Carolina, Texas, California and Virginia.
In another question, Kinsolving asked, "Sunday's lead editorial in The New York Times had this statement: 'We believe the military needs 65,000 additional Army troops, and the 27,000 additional Marines that Congress finally pushed President Bush into seeking.' What is the White House reaction to that statement?"
"Was that in Afghanistan, or in general?" Perino said. "I don't know. I didn't read The New York Times editorial this weekend, so I don't know."
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