Screenshot of Sunday Standard article (click to enlarge)
An article in Kenyan daily The Sunday Standard from 2004 describes US President Barack Obama as “Kenyan-born,” leading some to conclude that knowledge of his true birthplace has been an open secret for years.
The Sunday Standard article, which is archived here, reports on Obama’s assent into the US Senate back in 2004.
Titled “Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate,” the opening paragraph is written as follows:
Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Schnider exposed Obama’s Republican rival, Jack Ryan, as having forced his wife, actress Jeri Ryan, to attend several swinger clubs against her will. The scandal was uncovered when Judge Schnider ordered that the Ryan’s divorce records be opened to the public at the request of The Chicago Tribune newspaper and local ABC affiliate WLS-TV.
Speculation on whether Obama is a natural born citizen grew during the 2008 US Presidential election, with a flurry of lawsuits demanding the Democrat Party candidate release his true birth certificate.
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle ordered Obama’s birth certificate sealed back in October 2008.
Related posts:
![Recommend [therightperspective]](http://s3.amazonaws.com/arkayne-media/img/badge/logo-recommend-badge-medium.png){kind=icon}
Adding to the previous. When I said “in Swahili” I may have been inaccurate. It may have been in the Luo language. Either way, the same facts apply. We know that the Kenyan grandmother (step-grandmother actually) was asked a question in English. We know that she does not speak English. We know the question in English, but we do not know the actual translation with all its connotations in the African language.
She answered YES, only yes, but what was the question? The interviewer sensed that there could be some ambiguity in the question, so he asked it another way, a simpler way: ‘Where was he born?” And the answer came back repeatedly that he was born in Hawaii. Add this to the other interview in which she said that the first that her family had heard of Obama’s birth was in a letter from Hawaii.
Re: “many African newspapers report as early as 2004 and 2006 that Obama was born in Kenya ”
BUT they did not cite evidence. Moreover, the phrase “Kenyan-born” is ambiguous. In some countries, such as France, the meaning of French-born refers to the nationality of the parents. Obama’s father was a Kenyan, you know. Finally, in some cases now the paper or the legislator could simply be wrong. By now the Kenya myth has gotten around, and some people believe it even without evidence. This is true in the USA, and it may be true in Kenya. Their belief is not a fact, especially since there are NO legal documents and the government of Kenya has not issued an official statement. There ARE legal documents from Hawaii, and the officials in Hawaii have issued official statements twice, and the governor has also confirmed. And there is this witness who recalls being told of Obama’s birth in Hawaii and writing home about it (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2170432/posts).
Re: “and what the ambassador said that Obama’s place of birth in Kenya is a well-known attraction and what ranking members of the Kenyan Parliament recently said about Obama being born in Kenya? ”
To some extent I have already addressed this. A Kenyan MP did say that Obama was born in Kenya. ONE MP. He did not cite any facts or any documents. He just said it. if he had said “Obama was born by immaculate conception,” would you believe it?
Re the Ambassador. He has said that he did not understand the question. That is highly likely. I have some experience in interviewing people whose native language is not English, and sometimes they make mistakes. If he had been asked: Are you going to celebrate Obama’s immaculate conception in Kenya?” He might well have answered Yes too. The single answer of a foreign diplomat whose native language is not English is meaningless. This is ESPECIALLY true when he says later that he misunderstood the question.
To take seriously the myth that Obama was born in Kenya requires a number of broad assumptions. First, that his mother had a passport in 1961. Obama has said that she did not, and that she applied for her first US passport when they were about to go to Indonesia. Obama also applied at the time, he says, and since he did travel to Indonesia and Indonesia says that he never had an Indonesian passport (call the Embassy to check), it is logical that he traveled on a US passport.
Obama indicated that his mother did not have a passport in his first book. The allegations and facts in this were undoubtedly checked by the Bush Administration when Obama announced his bid for presidency. They would know from their files (which, by the way, were not altered or deleted in the break-in) either that she did or did not have a passport in 1961. If she did have one, they would have indicated that fact as a way of showing that Obama lied and that he could have been born in Kenya. They said nothing. The most likely reason is that it is true that Obama’s mother did not have a passport in 1961.
But, say that she did have a passport at that time, and say that she had gone to Kenya despite the expense and risk. Say that Obama was born in Kenya. Then, how did he get from Kenya to the USA without some kind of a US travel document? I mean, we do not allow foreign-born infants into our country (especially not black ones in 1961) without some kind of visa or US passport or the inclusion of him on his mother’s passport.
If there were such a document, an application for a US visa or to change his mother’s passport to include him. There would be a record of the application, and it would have been found. The Bush Administration made no such discovery.
So, we have:
1) An official Hawaii document that shows Obama was born in Hawaii.
2) Repeated confirmations by the officials in Hawaii that he was born in Hawaii
3) A witness who recalls being told about his birth in Hawaii.
4) His Kenyan grandmother saying at least once that he was born in Hawaii and no evidence that she said that he was born in Kenya or that he was born in a Kenyan hospital or that she was present in the place where he was born.
5) No official Kenyan documents showing that Obama was born in Kenya (except for obvious forgeries).
6) No US documents showing that Obama traveled from Kenya to the USA in 1961.
Ooops. I forgot one
7) Some evidence that Obama’s mother did not have a passport in 1961 and hence could not give birth outside of the USA.
Re: “Official Kenyan Government Records & numerous African Country News Accounts from 2004 to 2010 reporting Obama was Born in Kenya”
Answer; There are NO official Kenyan government records. But, there are several obviously forged Kenyan “birth certificates.” There is not a single African newspaper account that said that it knew that Obama was born in Kenya based on any document or source. There is, in contrast, the OFFICIAL birth certificate of Hawaii, which the officials in Hawaii have confirmed the FACTS on twice.
Re: “” Birth registration in Hawaii falsified by Grandma Dunham who lived there to illegally get her new foreign born grandson U.S. Citizenship”
Hawaii did not then and does not now issue a birth document of any kind that says on it ‘born in Hawaii”unless there was proof that the child was born in Hawaii. Obama’s says that he was born in Hawaii, and this fact was confirmed twice by the officials of the Department of Health and the Department of Vital Records of Hawaii, and this in turn was confirmed by the governor of Hawaii, a Republican.
The claims that Obama’s Certification were forged were checked out by the McCain Campaign and found to be false. Only two guys who would not give their real names made them anyway. Obama’s Kenyan grandmother said repeatedly that Obama was born in Hawaii in the taped interview, and she said in another interview that the first that her family in Kenya had heard of the birth was in a letter from Hawaii.
Andrew Walden, a conservative columnist and blogger who lives in Hawaii, put it this way:
“For Obama to have been born in Kenya, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. would have had to fly from Honolulu to Mombasa, give birth in a substandard third world hospital, fly back and then somehow arrange for a fraudulent birth certificate to be entered by the State of Hawai`i on August 8, 1961 (at the time governed by Republican William Quinn). They would have also somehow planted the phony birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser (at the time edited by Republican Thurston Twigg-Smith) and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Hawai`i’s current Republican Governor Linda Lingle would also have to be complicit in the cover-up as would all of the leftist 1960s University of Hawaii friends of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr – among them US Rep. Neil Abercrombie.
In 1961, the roundtrip flight to Kenya would have been a very expensive, pointless, and time consuming epic journey for two starving students. Barack Obama Sr. had only been able to come study at UH Manoa with a free ticket on a donated charter flight with other Kenyan students. “
Hi, Mario!
Wow! 95 pages to say “I’m not sorry at all”? And, really, it was a rather lame excuse for not citing Berg in your opening brief, and for failing to assert then your belated challenges to standing caselaw.
Bring your checkbook!
Filing at 11:57 PM, even after you got a free 3-day extension…cutting it close!
Funny thing, all the commenters on Apuzzo’s blog are calling it a masterpiece. :) The Court is going to gag when they see this is 95 pages., absolutely gag.