Obama on birth certificate questions: ‘We do not have time for this kind of silliness’
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 10:51 am
The White House today issued on its website a certified copy of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate. It confirms, as is well-documented, that Obama was born in Honolulu’s Kapiolani Maternity Hospital in 1961.
The image of the certificate, made available on the White House website (PDF), appears at the bottom of this post.
Following the document’s release, President Obama held a press conference to address the “birther” conspiracy. He told the White House press corps that the birther movement amused and puzzled him, but that the media’s attention on birthers in the midst of the debate over the budget moved his administration to address the matter so that the national conversation might move on to more substantial issues. Obama said that the nation had no hope of taking on the very real challenges facing the country if it continued to be distracted by “sideshows and carnival barkers.”
“We do not have time for this kind of silliness,” the president said. “We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do.”
President Obama also acknowledged that the issue would remain alive for the most hardcore conspiracy theorists in spite of the freely available long-form birth certificate (his short-form birth certificate (PDF) was made available nearly three years ago).
Indeed, birthers on rightwing forums, maintaining the significance of a meaningless distinction between a “certificate of live birth” (the term used by the state of Hawaii) and a birth certificate, have already dismissed the new copy as either a forgery or as evidence that Obama doesn’t satisfy the “natural born citizen” clause of the Constitution as part of the eligibility requirements for American presidents. A sample comment, from the user “sten” on FreeRepublic.com:
so now we know his father was not an American citizen when 0bama was born
on to the next issue.
how could he be a natural born citizen… if both parents are not American citizens
This muddled take on natural born citizenship is characteristic of the birther movement. As most Americans well know (and have recently expressed opposition to), citizenship is granted to anyone born in the U.S. While the term “natural born citizen” is not specifically defined in the original Constitution, the Fourteenth Amendment makes it clear that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen.
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Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 4:06 pm
when a conspiracy theory is wrong, they release the evidence to prove that the conspiracy theorists are wrong. But when the conspiracy theorists are right, they pretend not to listen to those theorists at all…
Obama is a good man anyways, he seems to be the only president with least number of skeletons in the closet.
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Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 4:31 pm
There is something even more conclusive than being born in the US that birthers cannot deny: namely, having an American parent. The Naturalization Act of 1790 expressly defined the term “natural born citizen” to include a person born abroad to parents who are United States citizens.
For people with one parent who was a US citizen and the other a foreign national, those born between December 23, 1952 and November 13, 1986 are US citizens as long as the US citizen parent resided in the US for a total of 10 years prior to the birth of the child, with five of the years after the age of 14. Obama’s mama, Ann Dunham, had lived in the US from 1942 to 1960 and was 18 when Obama was born. http://www.visalaw.com/05jan1/2jan105.html
Even if there are doubts about whether his parents’ marriage was legal, children born out of wedlock to a US citizen mother during this period were US citizens if the mother was resident in the US for a period of one year prior to the birth of the child.
Let’s see the birthers deal with that.
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 5:26 pm
This comment is directed to Mr. Obama, I pushed to give you the benefit of the doubt when you were campaigning, I was doubtful if you were well enough qualified to be President, especially as I had never heard of you until all of a sudden you were running for President. I believe now my doubts were correct, you have promised many things that you have yet to put into place. If you had simply supplied a copy of your birth certificate when first asked for it, all this time and all these questions would have been saved and answered. Me, I can’t even get a driver’s license or a passport with my birth certificate – somehow it doesn’t make sense that you can get to be our President without this one all important piece of paper. Let’s face it, it has not looked good for you holding back on this. You were supposed to be the people’s president with an open government, this was not the way to go about it, I’m sorry to say.Maggie
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 5:33 pm
Sorry, I meant to say I can’t even get my driver’s license or a passport WITHOUT my birth certificate.,
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 5:36 pm
Sorry, I meant to say that I cannot even get my driver’s license or passport WITHOUT my birth certificate., Maggie
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 5:36 pm
Sorry, I meant to say that I cannot even get my driver’s license or passport WITHOUT my birth certificate., Maggie
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 5:47 pm
You have provided no valid argument to repute. You are referencing a part of the law that does not apply to Obama or his mother. You missed the most important part, that of the mothers requirements to pass on citizenship to Obama. Please impress us with your congitive ability and do some more research!
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 5:51 pm
This is GREAT!!
Read your comment again and check your math. You just proved that Obama Mother did not reside in the US long enough to pass on citiezenship to Obama. LOL!
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 6:33 pm
What? Being born in Kansas and living in the USA for 18 years is not long enough to be a US citizen? Are you seriously that dumb?
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 6:37 pm
Dear idiot named Maggie,
Obama, just like you, provided his standard birth certificate long before he ran for president. His SHORT FORM birth certificate was release in 2008 (although it was likely available when he ran as a senator). Do your research. The SHORT FORM birth certificate is the same one you show when you go get your driver’s license, so get your facts right before you complain that life isn’t fair. Until you start providing your LONG FORM birth certificate to get a driver’s license, kindly shut up about this birther shit.
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 6:54 pm
lol at the willful ignorance of the birthers. There is no need to justify or explain anything to them, if they actually wanted truth, and not just to prove their (obviously false) point, they would have all shut the fuck up in 2008.
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 7:14 pm
There has never been a presidential candidate in the entire history of our nation who released their birth certificate for viewing by the general public. Obama is the only one. If you think he wasn’t exhaustively vetted by the CIA, NSA, FBI and Secret Service before even running for the Democratic nomination, you are a fool. But he still released his birth certificate in June 2008 to appease nutjobs like you and you still weren’t satisfied. Is it any surprise you’re still not satisfied? It’s because no piece of paper the president releases will make him white.
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 7:35 pm
The people who have been requesting Obama’s official birth certificate (and today you have received it) will go down in history as racist bigots who forced our first black president to prove himself like no other president has before. I am ashamed of many of my fellow citizens today, and I’m also sad to see that even our President has become victim to racial pressure. Put a score up for the bad guys today.
What a sad sad day for all of you.
Comment posted April 27, 2011 @ 7:35 pm
The people who have been requesting Obama’s official birth certificate (and today you have received it) will go down in history as racist bigots who forced our first black president to prove himself like no other president has before. I am ashamed of many of my fellow citizens today, and I’m also sad to see that even our President has become victim to racial pressure. Put a score up for the bad guys today.
What a sad sad day for all of you.
Comment posted April 28, 2011 @ 3:12 am
Hey I’m a racist even though my first girl friend was black, sweet butt anyway,
I don’t believe anything this man says. Everything that comes out of his mouth are lies, but now on his birth he is HOLY, even his freaking wife said he was from Kenya ?? What did she mis-speak, congressman Richardson call Obama a Immigrant, slip of the tongue?? Obamas grandmother said he was born in Kenya? Truth is Long form BC is fraud, scam, Lies.
Comment posted April 28, 2011 @ 6:20 pm
We are making a big deal out of the birth certificate to find out he is born in USA, but at the same time we are giving our jobs to foreign workers and replacing them by H1b visa
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Comment posted April 29, 2011 @ 2:35 pm
I don’t believe we still have to go over this shit years after it was debunked, but here goes:
1. His wife called Kenya his “home country,” an expression meant to signify one’s ancestral origin, not place of birth.
2. Richardson calling Obama an immigrant probably was a slip of the tongue. Are you saying you believe everything every politician says, or just the things you find convenient?
3. Obama’s grandmother never said he was born in Kenya, she said he was born in Hawaii.
You believe the long form BC is “fraud, scam, Lies” because you don’t want to believe that Obama is legitimately president. You have a severe case of Obama Derangement Syndrome. Seek help.
Comment posted May 1, 2011 @ 4:35 am
Why did it take so long for him to pony up his BC? This would not be an issue if he showed it when it was first brought up… I just sayin
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