Is Barack Obama eligible to be President (further update)

Further to many posts, the last being this one, I now read that a Major Stefan Frederick Cook has had his military orders to serve in Afghanistan revoked "after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office."

Do read the whole story as it brings up once again the fact that there are many questions surrounding Barack Obama's past. The key question over his birth seems to be why Barack Obama has never released the standard "long-form" birth certificate that would show which hospital he was born in. Why has Barack Obama and his team spent so much time and money preventing the production of the "long-form" birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician and instead producing the "Certification of Live Birth" which is touted as "Obama's birth certificate" although it does not prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same "short-form" document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii.

As WND says:

"Oddly, though congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth."

Of course the birth certificate is not the only document pertaining to Barack Obama's past that has not been released. WND also record that also missing are the following:
Obama kindergarten records showing his birth certificate produced to allow him to be schooled have not been produced.


Punahou School records showing how his fees were paid have not been produced.


Occidental College records showing how his fees were paid and if his were paid via financial aid for foreign students have not been produced.


Columbia University records -

"Fox News made contact with 400 of Obama's classmates. No one remembered him." "The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago," the Sun reported in September 2008. "The shroud surrounding his experience at Columbia contrasts with that of other major party nominees since 2000, all whom have eventually released information about their college performance or seen it leaked to the public."

The story gets murkier here as "According to the New York Sun, a program from Columbia's 1983 commencement ceremony lists Obama as a graduate. University spokesman Brian Connolly confirmed that Obama graduated with a major in political science but without honors. Nonetheless, he was later admitted to Harvard Law School."

Columbia thesis "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" - Before applying to Harvard, Obama is said to have written a major thesis in his senior year. It has not been released.


Harvard Law School records -

"WND columnist Jack Cashill wrote, "If Obama's LSAT scores merited admission (to Harvard), we would know about them. We don't. The Obama camp guards those scores, like his SAT scores, more tightly that Iran does its nuclear secrets."

He continued, "We know enough about Obama's Columbia grades to know how far they fall below the Harvard norm, likely even below the affirmative action-adjusted black norm at Harvard."

Cashill wrote, Khalid al-Mansour, principle adviser to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, lobbied friends like Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton to intervene at Harvard on Obama's behalf. Al-Mansour reportedly mentored founders of the Black Panther party in the early 1960s.

Cashill suggests Obama's "shyness" about his Harvard experience may stem from his reluctance to broadcast his connections."

Harvard Law Review articles -

"In 1990, Obama beat out 18 other contenders to become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, where he spent at least 50 hours a week editing submissions from judges, scholars and authors." but "A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at any time."

University of Chicago scholarly articles -

"Obama lectured at the University of Chicago Law School, a top school where the faculty is known for voluminous scholarly publishing, from 1992 until 2004.

The university offered Obama a full-time tenure-track position, an honor typically reserved for published instructors. However, reporters have been unable to find scholarly articles authored by him. The university reports that Obama declined the tenure offer."

Passport -

"According to March 2008 reports, State Department employees conducted an unauthorized search of Obama's passport files during the recent presidential campaign. CNN reported that three different contract workers accessed his information on separate occasions – Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14 – without authorization. Two workers were fired and another faced discipline.

Obama's files reportedly contained copies of passport applications, birth date, basic biographical information, records of passport renewal and possibly citizenship information.

The Obama campaign demanded a thorough investigation to determine which employees looked at the file and why.

"This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton told CNN in a statement. "Our government's duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes."

Meanwhile, a key witness who had been cooperating with federal investigators was later found fatally shot in front of a Washington, D.C., church. A police officer found the body of Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, slumped dead inside his car.

At the time, investigators said they didn't have any information connecting the murder to the passport case. After one year of investigation of the homicide, there have been no arrests.

The passport has not been released."

Now that, if true, is fascinating.



Medical records -

"During his first presidential campaign in 1999, Sen. John McCain released 1,500 pages of medical and psychiatric records collected by the Navy. In 2008, McCain allowed reporters to spend three hours sifting through 1,200 pages of health records.


In 1999, former Vice President Al Gore released medical records revealing "mildly elevated" cholesterol levels and removal of a common form of skin cancer from his forehead in 1997. The documents disclosed his weight, resting heart rate, resting blood pressure, cardiovascular fitness and a variety of other health details. Gore's records were compiled after a complete physical examination by several military physicians.

Likewise, President George W. Bush allowed the media to view about 400 pages of personal medical information in 2000 and 2004.

After initial reluctance, Sen. John Kerry allowed the Navy to release his full medical records in 2004.

While not all have done so, it has been common practice for presidential candidates to release medical records.

However, Barack Obama, a relatively young candidate who was said to have been in "excellent health," refused to release medical records. Instead, he simply provided a six-paragraph note from his physician briefly summarizing 21 years of doctor visits and health information.

The letter contained no supporting documentation."

Other documents -

"According to additional records listed at the Obama File Report, other documents that remain unreleased include:

* Complete files and schedules of his years as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004

* Obama's client list from during his time in private practice with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard

* Illinois State Bar Association records

* Baptism records

* Obama/Dunham marriage license

* Obama/Dunham divorce documents

* Soetoro/Dunham marriage license

* Adoption records"

And that takes us back to the "Birth certificate" -

"WND has been reporting since before the election on questions – and lawsuits – raised over Obama's birth and eligibility. He reported in his book he was born in Hawaii and his half-sister agrees. But the woman the president says is his paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claimed to have been present at her grandson's birth in Mombasa, Kenya.

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.""

Do read the whole WND piece and ask yourselves this question - Why has Barack Obama not released his long form birth certificate and why is so much else of his past hidden from public view, what has he got to hide?.


Then take a look at this video of WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asking Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, why the president wouldn't release his "long form" birth certificate and not getting a straight answer, but getting the derision of the room, why?


You might then wonder why as WND also reports:

"The Hawaiian certification of live birth Barack Obama posted on his campaign website and distributed to select news organizations as proof he was a "natural born citizen" would not be accepted as a "birth certificate" even for some Hawaiian state government eligibility issues,"

All very interesting?