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He does not meet the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution
Father?s race on the Obama birth certificate: only a curiosity or a
smoking gun?


- Lawrence Sellin Tuesday, April 26, 2011
I would like to begin by stating unequivocally that, for me, it does not
matter if Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii because he has never
been eligible to be President. He does not meet the natural born citizen
clause of the Constitution i.e. born in the United States, of parents
who were both U.S. citizens at the time of the candidate?s birth.


I admit that I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, an expert on
birth documents nor am I terribly familiar with the details of the
current birth certificate controversy.

Nevertheless, there is one thing that I don?t quite understand.

On the Certification of Live Birth (COLB), now widely available on the
internet, Obama?s father?s race is listed as ?African?.

First, ?African? usually defines a location not a race.

Second, the common usage for the race of black Africans in 1961 would
have been ?Negro? or ?Negroid?.

Third, ?African? is not listed as a race in the federal Office of
Management and Budget policy documents (1977, 1997).

For the sake of argument, let?s say that the terminology is peculiar to
Hawaii and Obama filed a Late Certificate of Birth or perhaps his
documents were updated in recent years.

In that case, the publicly available COLB must reflect what is written
on the source birth documents, even updated ones.

In Appendix B ?Hawaii Model ? Standard for Clustering Race/Ethnicity
Categories? contained in an article published in 2003 by employees of
the Hawaii Department of Health, the word ?African? appears as an
?Aggregated Ethnic Group? under the race category ?Black (non-
Hispanic)?. That differs from the categories in Appendix A, which
apparently represented an earlier version and did not contain the word
?African?.

Unless I am mistaken, that information might suggest that Barack Obama?s
birth data were updated around 2003 or thereafter.

I don?t know. Just asking. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

NOTE: I already know how harrie will address this post as he hates it
when anybody else here has an opinion or comment... That's why he has
bullied and stalked so many folks from the board. Anyway, I won't pay
attention to his posts, so let me know if he ever addressed the issue
beyond calling names and trying to act clever for Don and JPS...


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