Is the U.S. really capable of self-government any more?

“Can there be an issue more vital to the people of the United States than the overthrow of the Constitution that embodies their authority to govern themselves?” ~Dr. Alan Keyes, Obama's Eligibility: The True Issue.

Hasn’t the citizenry of the United States been lax in governing themselves for decades? We didn’t elect a [supposed] president like Barack Hussein Obama over just one election cycle, nor was it in response to what George Bush did or did not do. Without morality, I submit that we lack the capability to govern ourselves.

The downfall of morality in the United States has been happening for more than 100 years, each generation falling a little further than the previous one. The sad fact is that most Christians do not know what moral decency is any more. Off-color jokes, sensuality in music, sensuality in skits and plays. I note with interest that the BTK serial killer and Dr. George Tiller were both church-going citizens who were trusted members of the church laity. What’s even worse is that the church-going public doesn’t hear the same “hell, fire and brimstone” sermons of past generations. Hell is an uncomfortable subject, and many times glossed over so as not to offend.

Our nation, our states, our counties and our precincts are in the same shape that our church is in. In order to change our nation, we must change the morality of it’s churches which will in turn change the morality of the nation’s citizens. In order to change morality, the churches need a “come to Jesus meeting”–and the sooner the better.

Discussing Religion & Politics is Healthy!

Isn't that a great headline? Stole it from an email I received. :D This post has nothing to do with religion and plenty to do with politics. I'm becoming a real political hound! :D Actually, it is really just a "stream of consciousness" blog, but hopefully all salient points none-the-less.

I am sick and tired of socialist Obama trolls and Republican wannabees going on and on about how the birth certificate has been shown online, proven by Factcheck, the LA Times, and Snopes (all "independent" investigative sources--NOT). Most of us know that Factcheck is an arm of the Annenberg Foundation for whom Obama used to work doing his "community organizing." Snopes was "outed" during this whole mess--a husband and wife team working from their kitchen table, doing little to no research and often times not posting the truth even when corrected by the people and organizations involved. The LA Times likely did no investigation of their own, choosing instead to rely on Snopes and Factcheck as their sources (birds of a feather flock together).

Personally, I think the birth certificate is IRRELEVANT because Obama's father was a foreign student at the time of his birth (that means "not a citizen" for the LA Times readers). I also think it is likely that Obama was born in Honolulu as he says--well, let's just say that Hawaii has a greater probability of being the truth than Kenya. Location is irrelevant, because my research (and my plagiarized research) of the laws, treatises and writings from long ago lead me to believe that the intended definition of a "natural born citizen" is one born to citizen parents (plural) on sovereign soil (in the U.S.). Using this definition, Obama cannot, and never will be, a natural born citizen. Obama Sr. was a British subject at the time of O's birth, making his son a dual citizen AT BIRTH. It doesn't matter whether he accepted or rejected his British citizenship as an adult--which by the way would make him a "naturalized" citizen not a natural born citizen. Certainly, O is a citizen--just not a natural born citizen. It saddens me to know that the majority of Americans don't understand the difference between the two.

Also bothersome is the withholding of so many other records that would further clarify O's citizenship status as an adult: college records (did he receive aid as a foreign student?), and travel records, including passports (how does a skinny college kid who arrived in NYC without two nickels to rub together go on a 'round-the-world trip a month later?). Remember way back during the primaries there was some flack about some contract employees accessing the passport records of Clinton, McCain and Obama? It is my personal opinion that O's records were the target (for scrubbing) and that Clinton and McCain were used for "cover." Did you know that the government's star witness (one of the accused who had turned state's evidence) was shot and killed outside his car? Hmmm, mighty convenient.

O and his minions are so full of fraud, greed, and corruption--it's just pathetic that people keep defending him. I say, cut your losses folks and admit he's a failure. He's a cheap Chicago thug. Admit this isn't the change you had in mind when you voted for him. It also isn't the change that he promised during the campaign. It is time to admit that you've been had so that we can set out together to Restore the Republic.

It is time to admit that our republic's government is too large, both at the federal and state levels, and that deep cuts are needed. And, it IS a republic, a democratic republic. It is NOT a democracy, which is mob rule--where 51% of the people tell the other 49% how to live and what to do. It is time to close our southern border. Let them immigrate legally like so many other Americans.

And, we are ALL Americans--not African Americans, Arab Americans, Latino Americans, etc. America is a melting pot of differing cultures, but all those cultures must melt into the same pot or you get the social divisions we have today. All the European immigrants who made it through Ellis Island adopted the language, the laws, and American culture and history as their own. Yes, my dear Mexicans, they learned English! They were allowed to practice their respective religions without interference--we Americans are a tolerant bunch. (The only time Democrats practice tolerance is when they want the Republicans to be tolerant as the Democrats chip away at yet one more Constitutional principle. Does the Democratic Party know they've been "assimilated" by the socialist borg?)

Marxism is a fraud--look how well it has worked for Russia. Oh, you think the Russians just did it wrong? They were just too oppressive? Have you looked at O's government lately? Listened to any of Janet Napolitano's DHS alerts? Been to any of the Democrats' Town Halls? Did someone say intimidation, repression, suppression and oppression?

Now let's talk directly to the Republicans and Conservatives--no those two terms are NOT synonyms for the same thing. The Republicans, for the most part, have gone along with most of the "chipping away" that has been done to the Constitution. Contrary to what some conservatives may think, we didn't arrive at this point overnight. It has taken the socialists (aka progressives) some time to poke this many holes in our revered Constitution. Republicans used to be the party of conservatism, common sense, small government and strong defense. Not any more.

So...what's a conservative to do? Quit saying you don't have time to get involved. You MUST get involved. Uninvolved citizenry is how we got to where we are today. Stop whining, get off the couch, make a few sacrifices in your "hectic schedule" and seek out other conservatives who also want to Restore the Republic. You'll need to make monetary sacrifices, too. My husband and I are poorer than church mice. It seems as though we're always trying to juggle paying for prescriptions (just our co-pays, we have insurance--such as it is), groceries and gas for the cars. I'm disabled and unable to work. My salary was the larger of the two. We've been barely scraping by for over three years. Last pay day I sacrificed most of my grocery money in order to give money to my party chairman. He works full time building and laying the foundation for our party. I didn't think it was possible for anyone to be poorer than us...it was rather nice to give to someone else for a change, even if we did live on bologna sandwiches until the next payday. The chairman and his wife make untold sacrifices every day.

So...what are you going to sacrifice for your country? If it is anything less than time and money, then it isn't enough. Some of us have more time than money. Some of us have more money than time. The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Nearly all of them paid with their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. I ask again, what are you willing to sacrifice for your country? Not your political party, but your country.

When it comes to fighting for our Republic, for our independence from the tyranny that is already upon us, how much is enough? In the words of John Rockefeller, "just a little bit more." No, Restoring our Republic won't be easy...but it is the right and honorable thing to do. Are you going to take Easy Street, or the rocky dirt path?

Will you fight to save our Republic? You know, the future of our Republic depends upon you. Each of you. It is time to get off the couch, turn off the TV and become engaged in the body politic. Have we spilled American blood over these 233 years for nothing? We lost thousands on D-Day alone, not to mention the rest of the war. Are you going to let her go without even trying?

Will you fight to save our Republic? I am NOT advocating an armed action against our government. But I do want to see each and every American working to Restore our Republic.

Coulter & Huckabee throw conservatives under the bus???!!!

Every conservative on this planet needs to listen to this Geraldo clip from Fox News (aka Fox Snooze).




All I can say about Coulter and Huckabee is...what turncoats! They have no understanding of the Constitution (the terms citizen and natural born citizen are NOT the same thing), and their characterization of those of us who question Obama's eligibility as looney kookburgers is what I expect from the liberal left media, not from so-called conservatives. But, since most of us who believe BO isn't eligible are Christians, and Christians are the one class of people on whom the media and Hollywood can pick any time, any place...of course the "birthers (aka Christians)" are irrational geeks.

I'm going to post this video on every blog I have, every social network and any other place I can think of to post it. The conservative world needs to see themselves being tossed under the bus by Ann Coulter and Mike Huckabee.

Mike Huckabee: as a pastor I expected more from you than this. I am truly disappointed in you as a person and in your lack of character.

Ann Coulter: about what I'd expect from one whose controversial mouth is what sells her books and gets her invited to shows like Geraldo (boy, now there's a real step up in the entertainment world).

Born in the USA? Take #2.

Many of you may know of the heroic attempts by dentist and attorney Orly Taitz to challenge Barack Obama's eligibility to be President of the United States. What you may NOT know is that her website "Defend Our Fredoms Foundation" was hacked and seized a few days ago. The thugs are posting obscene things under Dr. Taitz's name that she would never say. Today's article on World Net Daily was a wonderful piece, complete with pictures and how she and her parents escaped from Russia to Israel. I've copied the text of the article here, but it is definitely worth a look-see for yourself. :D http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94377

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BORN IN THE USA?
Meet fierce blonde behind Obama eligibility lawsuits
Soviet Union survivor: President spits in face of every U.S. citizen

Posted: April 12, 2009
7:05 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. – She's the fierce blond attorney behind Obama eligibility lawsuits, a successful dentist with two offices, a second-degree black belt and a mother of three boys who speaks five languages.

Dr. Orly Taitz, a woman with a vibrant smile and an ebullient personality, has not always enjoyed an independent life filled with promise and ambition. She was born and raised in Kishinev (also spelled Chisinau), the capital of the Republic of Moldova, a country in Eastern Europe that was formerly part of the Soviet Union.

Drawing on her experiences under a communist regime, she told WND she is determined to do her part to stop America from following in the all-too-familiar footsteps of her former homeland.

Life under communism

She described her life in a communist nation: Markets were bare, people had no desire to work and the government forced young children into slave labor.

"We'd stop at the store, and the food stores were empty," she said. "I remember we had to stand in lines for hours in the cold. We were in a bus, going home and suddenly we'd see a line. We wouldn't even know what they were selling, but we knew something would be there – some food. We'd stand for two hours to buy maybe a pound of salami or a half a pound of butter."

As a young child, Taitz asked her father why the market shelves were empty.

"In America, they have everything," he would tell her. "The stores are full."

Her father explained that Americans were interested in working and received paychecks based on their productivity. However, in the Soviet Union, farmers were part of a socialist system of collective farming and were compensated equally – regardless of output.

He told her, "If a farmer is bright and hard working, at the end of the month, he will get 100 rubles. And if the farmer is a lazy bum and he does nothing, he gets the same 100 rubles."

Taitz told WND, "People had absolutely no incentive to do anything. They had no incentive to work. The best doctors were getting maybe 150 rubles. That's why the standards for medicine were so low."

Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 350,000 others and sign up now!

Youth camps and slave labor

She said that, much like President Obama's proposed brigade of youth organizers, the Soviet Union used children for slave labor.

"They would put us on trucks, and we would go to the countryside," she said. "We were told to go and pick tomatoes."

Parents were not allowed to homeschool their children. They were forced to enroll them in government schools. From the age of 6, all children were required to become young communists.

"You had to send your child to school, and your child had to be a member of the young communists," Taitz said. "There were no children who were not members. You had to do it. If you were one of the best, you become a member of the Communist Party. It was constant brainwashing."

She continued, "There was no choice, and people resented that. They were scared to speak up."

Most children were sent to communist youth camps, but Taitz' parents wouldn't allow her to go. Instead, they gave her stacks of math, physics and chemistry textbooks to study while her friends were away at camps.

"My parents didn't want me to be in those camps and be subjected to communist brainwashing," she said. "They wanted me to think for myself. I learned to read by myself, and my parents sent me to competitions in math, physics, chemistry and biology. I would sit and work with pages of problems, and I loved to compete."

An empty existence

Practice of religion was restricted in the Soviet Union. Churches were closed and repurposed as museums of art.

"You had to be an atheist," Taitz said. "No one could go and pray. You weren't allowed to mention any religion. A lot of priests, ministers and rabbis were sent to Siberia, so people were scared. They didn't celebrate any religious holidays; they just didn't exist."

She said alcohol abuse was rampant and caused the destruction of many lives.

"One of the reasons they had such a serious problem with alcoholism was because there was nothing in people's lives. There was no God, no religion, no choice. You had to conform and comply."

During her years living in the Soviet Union, Taitz said friends would constantly talk about finding ways to break away from the system.

"They would tell me, 'This person was very inventive and built a hot-air balloon to get out from East Germany to West Germany, or somebody was able to swim across the border,'" she said. "There were always stories about how people escaped the regime."

With only one TV station in Kishinev, Taitz said reporters spewed communist propaganda.

Escaping a totalitarian regime

In 1981, when she was 21, her uncle managed to escape to Israel. He sent her family papers that allowed them to join him there due to their familial relationship.

When Taitz arrived in Israel, she was stunned to discover a free-market society with full stores. In the Soviet Union, there were no fruits or vegetables in the winter. Her family survived on canned foods, bread and pierogis, or dumplings stuffed with various ingredients such as cheese and potatoes.

"I remember when a lady who came to Israel from the Soviet Union went to the store and asked, 'When will we have tomatoes?' She was thinking, maybe March or April," Taitz said.

"The clerk looked at her and said, 'Probably in an hour.'"

For a woman who had lived under a communist regime her whole life, freedom was a new concept she had only imagined after listening to her father's stories.

"It was a completely different feeling, a free feeling," she said. "There were political parties, and you got to choose whichever one you wanted. In the Soviet Union, there was only one."

She lived in Israel for several years and attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Taitz met her future husband, a man living in California who visited his family while she was a practicing dentist in Israel in 1987. Only a couple of months after their introduction, he proposed marriage, and she accepted. Her father was reluctant to let his daughter go, but he eventually relented.

"I was scared. Coming to the U.S. was a big step," she said. "I went to a new country and married a person I hardly knew. I was very scared. So, I came, and right away we drove to Las Vegas."

Still jet lagged from her flight, Taitz was nearly falling asleep as she arrived at a chapel in the center of the Las Vegas strip.

"We paid to have a limo driver act as our witness, and the minister married us," she said. "We got some pictures and sent them to my parents to let them know I wasn't living in sin."

Dentist, lawyer, broker and mother

Because Taitz had foreign dental training, she was required to take dental board exams to practice in the United States. When she took one of her last tests, she was pregnant with her first son.

"I was seven months pregnant with a big belly," she said. "It was pretty tough."

Taitz passed the dental boards, and her practice grew substantially. She now has two separate dental offices in Mission Viejo and Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. Two dentists work in Taitz' offices each week to assist patients.

With a successful practice and a growing family, Taitz decided to enroll in law school at William Howard Taft University. She took distance courses and studied from home in the evenings.

"I just got books and tapes and studied until I passed the exams," she said. "I passed the California bar, and it is said to be one of the more difficult ones in the nation. When I passed, there was only a 50 percent passing rate."

With three young sons, Taitz volunteered at her children's school every Tuesday for 10 years and reserved evenings and weekends for her family.

When her sons enrolled in Taekwondo classes, she eagerly joined them – earning her own second-degree black belt.

With a strong desire to see the world, Taitz has traveled to 40 countries. In addition to English, she speaks Russian, Romanian, Hebrew and Spanish and has a strong understanding of German because her grandparents spoke the language.

When she sold her California home, Taitz also earned her real estate broker's license to save on commission from the sale. She said she plans to renew it when the eligibility lawsuits have been resolved.

Obama eligibility lawsuits

During the recent election campaigns, Taitz paid close attention and grew concerned when stories about President Obama's birth simply didn't add up. She followed Philip Berg's eligibility lawsuit and several other similar complaints across the nation.

On Oct 25, 2008, she sent an e-mail to Debra Bowen, secretary of state of California, urging her to verify Obama's citizenship status before the elections.

"I wrote, 'I'm an attorney in Southern California, and I am greatly concerned about Barack Obama's eligibility,'" she said.

Taitz told Bowen she believed Obama did not have a legitimate, long-form birth certificate proving that he was born in Hawaii. She argued that if a candidate lacked proper documentation of meeting the natural-born citizen requirement, that candidate should be declared ineligible to run.

"She wrote back that there was no requirement for her to check eligibility," Taitz said. "I asked for a hearing, and I received a letter from her attorney that we would have one. But they lied and never scheduled one. It was appalling that the secretary of state was negligent, reckless, and didn't check eligibility."

Frustrated with the response she received from Bowen's office, Taitz began writing letters to every newspaper she could find. In her letters, she explained why she believed Obama was not eligible and described flaws in the vetting process.

"I wrote that Obama is not eligible to be president and that next time around, we can have Osama bin Laden on our ballots if the only thing one needs to do is write, 'I am eligible,'" she said.

After she wrote the letters, a woman contacted her at her dental office and invited her to a meeting of 200 people in Garden Grove, Calif., to discuss illegal immigration and various political issues. She attended the meeting and met Pastor Wiley Drake, radio host of "Wiley Drake in Buena Park" and vice presidential candidate for America's Independent Party.

Drake complimented Taitz on her speech and asked her to join him on his radio show. When she agreed, he asked how he could help her pursue the eligibility case.

"I said, 'From what I understand, Berg's case was not heard on the merits because they stated that he doesn't have good standing as an ordinary citizen. You are a vice presidential candidate for America's Independent Party. If you agree to be a plaintiff, we will do well."

He said, "Let's do it."

Alan Keyes, the party's nominee for president, agreed to join the lawsuit as a plaintiff. Chairman Markham Robinson added his name and brought another attorney, Gary Kreep, on board. They filed a writ of mandamus in Sacramento on behalf of Keyes, Robinson and Drake and requested that California's electors be barred from signing the Certificate of Vote until documentary proof of Obama's citizenship was produced.

As WND reported, the California court ruled that Bowen "has no 'ministerial duty' to demand detailed proof of citizenship from presidential candidates."

"I decided I couldn't change the pleadings in Alan Keyes' case, but I could file another lawsuit," she said. "So, I got seven plaintiffs and I drove to Los Angeles and filed a case there. By that time, I had a lot of supporters. A lot of people were writing to me, but I asked them to write the Supreme Court of California."

Taking her case to Supreme Court

She said with no explanation, the court denied her lawsuit.

"I could not understand why in the world they denied it," she said. "So I decided to go straight to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Dec. 11, I flew to Washington and filed the case the next day – the last working day before the meeting of the Electoral College."

Originally, she filed with Justice Anthony Kennedy, and he denied it. She resubmitted it to Chief Justice John Roberts, and he distributed it for conference.

"On the Jan. 20, the case was on the docket, and everybody could see it," Taitz said. "Then, right after the inauguration, on Jan. 21, it disappeared. It was as if somebody was trying to please Obama by erasing the docket."

Taitz has stepped up her fight, approaching Justice Antonin Scalia during his appearance in Los Angeles and hand-delivering documents to Chief Justice John Roberts at his appearance at the University of Idaho. She also presented Roberts with the WND petition, consisting of 3,300 pages of names – more than 325,000 at the time – of people demanding the Supreme Court hear the Obama eligibility case.

Taitz updates her Defend Our Freedoms blog with information about her cases. Her latest challenge to Obama's eligibility is a Quo Warranto case submitted to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, a legal standard that essentially allows citizens to demand on what grounds someone in authority exercises power.

She has 10 state representatives and about 130 members of the U.S. military signed on as plaintiffs in the action.

Reliving communism

"It is interesting that when we go to court challenging Obama's eligibility, I experience such a déjà vu, like I am in the communist Soviet Union again," Taitz said. "I feel, my God, I am back in a totalitarian regime. I'm shocked by the total and complete idiocy of those judges who come up with such idiotic excuses about why they refuse to sign a subpoena – something so basic to their jobs – to get his records."

Asked what motivates her continue fighting the eligibility battle, Taitz replied, "I feel that this man is arrogantly spitting in the face of each and every American citizen. I feel like he has just spit in my face. I take it personally that he is trampling on our Constitution and on our laws."

She continued, "Having the experience that I had in the Soviet Union – seeing lack of freedom, lack of a system of justice, lack of judicial integrity, lack of press with integrity, an economic system in shambles – when I saw all that, I began fighting."

Taitz said mainstream media in the United States are becoming much like the Soviet Union press, because they do not provide truthful information about Obama and have pushed for his socialist society. She offered a suggestion for dealing with "detached" and "ignorant" reporters who advocate such a system.

"I would put all of them in one airplane – Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, all of them. I would load a plane with 500 reporters and send them to some village in Siberia or some village in China or Mongolia or Korea or Cuba, and tell them, 'Why don't you survive there for a year,'" she said.

"I guarantee you, after a year they will come here and they'll be to the right of Rush Limbaugh. They'll think Rush Limbaugh is a communist."

Taking a stand

Taitz said if Obama is found to be ineligible, he must be unseated and tried for crimes he committed against citizens of the United States.

"The whole election would be annulled, and all of the laws signed by Obama would be null and void," she said with conviction. "In that case, somebody like Vice President Joe Biden must become president pro tempore for two or three months until we are able to organize a new election."

In Hebrew, "Orly" means "light" – and that's just what Taitz hopes to be for others who are willing to demand proof of Obama's eligibility and take a stand against his socialist plans for the nation.

Drawing on her early life experiences, Taitz issued a word of warning for Americans:

"The worst thing you can ever do is be scared in the face of evil," she said. "Never be too scared to stand tall and speak up."

Editor's note: Dr. Orly Taitz has experienced difficulties at her previous Defend Our Freedoms blog and has launched a replacement website. She asks that readers and donors contact her directly by e-mail or by writing to 26302 La Paz Ste. 211, Mission Viejo, Ca. 92691. {End Quote}

The Trip to Pakistan in 1981 outs Obama

Based upon Dr. Orly Taitz's blog: http://defendourfreedoms.us/
March 9, 2009

Well is He or Isn't He?

Paul Hollrah

It is a popular topic of discussion in political circles these days, and as the weeks pass more and more people are asking, “Is Barack Obama really a natural born citizen of the United States? Is he eligible to serve as President, or isn’t he?” If he is, then so be it. We’ll just have to grit our teeth until this long dark nightmare comes to an end…one way or another.

But what if he is not eligible? What then? Well, in that case we have a problem…a very large problem, the solution to which could tear asunder the fabric of American society.

Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution states that, “No person except a natural born citizen…shall be eligible to the office of 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.”

That’s pretty straightforward, yet, when confronted with the possibility that the man who sits in the Oval Office may be a usurper, a great many otherwise patriotic Americans can be heard to say, “What difference does it make? The election’s over; the people have spoken. Get over it!”

Well, it’s not quite as simple as all that, and the sooner we can all be satisfied that Obama is or is not a natural born citizen the better. To postpone that finding for a year or two and then find, conclusively, that Obama is not eligible to serve as president would be disastrous. Every new law and every executive order he had signed, every political appointment, every judicial appointment, every order he had given to the military, and every act and every decision of all of his appointees would immediately become null and void. How could we ever undo all of that? The American people would quickly learn that it is not much easier to undo two or three years of history than it is to undo a decade or a century. Obama must end his stubborn refusal to produce his birth certificate, his passports, his visas, and his college records. We must continue to recruit more and more Americans to insist that he do so.

To do that it is not necessary to prove that he was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii…as his paternal grandmother, a Kenyan half-brother, and a Kenyan half-sister insist…or who his natural father may have been. The proof of Obama’s failure to meet the “natural born citizen” standard is much simpler than that.

To convert a non-believer…one who insists that the Constitutional requirements must be met, but who believes that questions about Obama’s citizenship status are nothing more than sour grapes…it is only necessary to establish the facts surrounding Obama’s travel to Indonesia and Pakistan in the summer of 1981.

Although Obama fails to mention that trip in either of his memoirs…not in Dreams from My Father and not in The Audacity of Hope…he made a potentially fatal error when he mentioned the Pakistan trip during an April 6, 2008 speech in San Francisco…the same speech in which he referred to rural Pennsylvanians as “bitter” people who “cling to guns or religion…” In that speech, Obama explained in an offhand manner the value of that trip, vis-à-vis his knowledge of foreign affairs, saying, “I knew what Sunni and Shia was (sic) before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”

When questioned about that trip, Obama’s campaign press secretary, Bill Burton, confirmed to the New York Times, and others, that Obama had visited Pakistan in 1981 on his return from Indonesia, traveling there with a Pakistani friend from Occidental College, Wahid Hamid. According to Burton, Obama stayed in Karachi with the family of another Pakistani friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Obama has never mentioned the Pakistan trip again.

So it is well established that Obama did travel to Indonesia and Pakistan in 1981. What is not established, and what is critically important, is what passport he used during that trip. There are only three possibilities: Obama could have traveled under a U.S. passport…a passport first issued when he and his mother moved from Hawaii to Indonesia in 1967; he could have traveled under an Indonesian passport, issued following his adoption by his Indonesian stepfather; and it is conceivable that, if he was, in fact, born in Kenya in 1961, he could still have been a British subject, traveling with a British passport. So which is it?

Unfortunately for Obama, in the present circumstance, Pakistan was under martial law in 1981 and certain undesirables…Christians, Jews, and Americans…were prohibited from entering the country. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department’s “no travel” list, making a U.S. passport no more valuable than an empty chewing gum wrapper at the Karachi Port of Entry.

So how did a young man who arrived in New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world trip just a month later? And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York, Jakarta, and Karachi, what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration? The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers.

It makes the debate over Obama’s citizenship a rather short and simple one.

Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20?
A: Yes, by his own admission.

Q: What passport did he travel under?
A: There are only three possibilities:

1. He traveled with a U.S. passport;
2. He traveled with a British passport; or
3. He traveled with an Indonesian passport.

Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. passport in 1981?
A: No. It is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department’s “no travel” list in 1981.

Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an Indonesian passport.

If he was traveling with a British passport that would provide proof that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in Hawaii as he claims. And if he was traveling with an Indonesian passport that would tend to prove that he relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held, British or American, when adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967.

Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people deserve to know how he managed to become a “natural born” American citizen between 1981 and 2008. The sooner we learn the truth of all this, the better.

Is he a “natural born” citizen, or isn’t he? It seems pretty clear from currently available evidence that he is not. If this proves to be the case he should minimize the damage to the country and follow the Nixon example; he should simply resign from office so that we can begin to clean up the mess he leaves behind.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Paul Hollrah is a Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Heritage Institute.

Will Barry Soetoro actually be sworn in as the 44th President?

Who knows what is in store for us here in the United States of America. Those who are in a position of authority and who could investigate Barack Hussein Obama's citizenship choose not to do so. What's a lowly citizen supposed to do? I've ranted and raved, written letters, all to no avail. My senators just pat me on the head and say "there, there, nice little citizen."

My personal opinion is this: if Barack Hussein Obama is the anti-Christ, nothing we do will stand in his way or prevent him from assuming power. The good news is this also means the return of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ is imminent. BUT, until I'm caught up to meet him in the air, to borrow the words of the Apostle Paul, I am to occupy HERE until Jesus comes. This means I keep fighting, no matter how dismal things seem.

I'm not a sore loser and I don't have a case of sour grapes. I just want to be sure the President of my country is a natural born citizen, just like the U.S. Constitution requires. Natural born citizenship entails more than just the location of birth. Most court cases, and debate over the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution defined the phrase as being born to two U.S. citizen parents on U.S. soil. Consider these questions, if you will:

• Obama refuses to allow access to birth records that could determine his citizenship status–why? The sham certificate image posted online has been proven to have been altered by two different scientists, neither of whom knew the other was working on the same issue.
  

• Obama refuses to allow access to college financial aid records–why? Did he receive financial aid as a foreign student?
  

• Obama refuses to allow access to his medical records–why? Private investigators in Hawaii have determined that S. Ann Dunham was never a patient at any hospital in Hawaii. Obama and his sister, Maya, have given the names of two different hospitals where Obama was supposedly born. So, which is it? And, how can he have been born at a hospital where his mother was never a patient?
  

• Obama refuses to allow access to his passport records–why?
  

• Did Obama travel to Pakistan at the age of 19 or 20 on an Indonesian passport?
  

• Did Lolo Soetoro adopt Obama as a small child? Obama’s wife Michelle said he was adopted by Soetoro. Wouldn’t that have made him an Indonesian citizen?
  

• His paternal grandmother has been recorded as saying she was in the delivery room when Obama was born in Mombasa.

Does none of this confusion raise questions in your mind as to the veracity of Obama’s citizenship? Why weren’t these issues settled before he was allowed to run for office or even be nominated? Some of this information has been gleaned from Obama’s own books–his own words trip him up. There’s no conspiracy, the simple truth is that Obama is lying or withholding pertinent information because it would not place him in a favorable light. Apparently, there aren’t any men in Washington with enough backbone to make him prove his citizenship–not the place of his birth, but his citizenship.

There! I've ranted again.
:) Mary Ann Hartzler