The legal battles over Barack Hussein Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president are picking up steam. Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily, is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can prove he or she was present at the birth of Barack Obama. "Barack Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu Aug. 4, 1961," explains Farah. "His entire constitutional claim to the presidency rests on this premise. Yet, he refuses to release a copy of his long-form birth certificate – the only document that could possibly corroborate his claim. Therefore, in the interest of truth, justice and the Constitution, I am making the extraordinary offer to entice someone to come forward with the facts of his birth – whether it took place in Hawaii or elsewhere."
Under Hawaiian law, birth certificates are private, and not subject to open records or freedom of information requests. To date, Obama has refused to waive his privilege of confidentiality, or to provide any information concerning the location of his birth.
Obama with his mother
According to Farah, Obama has steadfastly refused to release evidence of that Hawaiian birth – a valid, long-form birth certificate that would show details of the birth, such as the hospital and the attending physician. Because the short-form "certification of live birth" he released to select news organization was at least sometimes issued for foreign births on the basis of an affidavit by one parent, it proves nothing as far as constitutional eligibility – and, in fact, raises suspicions about a foreign birth. And Obama's paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claims to have been present for Barack’s birth in Mombassa, Kenya.
Complicating the issue are Obama's move to Indonesia as a child, where he reportedly attended that nation's public schools, registered as “Barry Soetoro,.” and was listed as an “Indonesian Muslim.” There have also been questions raised concerning his later travels to Pakistan, and on what nation's passport that travel was accomplished. Then there are the multiple law firms hired to make certain Obama's long-form birth certificate information, and other documentation such as medical and college records, remain sealed from public view.
Paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama
Dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen" have been filed in courts across the nation. The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "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 President." Some of the lawsuits question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.
In California, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter has scheduled a July 13 hearing in a case challenging Barack Obama's eligibility to be president in which the plaintiff Alan Keys' attorney, Orly Taitz, says the commander-in-chief is in default. Keys, former Assistant U.S. Secretary of State and U.N. Ambassador, was also a contestant in the 2008 presidential race in California.
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Watch the video: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs earlier laughed at the reporter who inquired about the long-form birth certificate at a news briefing:
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