Posts Tagged ‘Hawaii’
Not So Fast! How about that citizenship “President-elect” Obama? (Updated)
My original November 15, 2008, article is updated here as this is a crucial matter in respect to our Constitution and who we accept in the office of President. It is surreal that Barack Obama has refused to release the records necessary to resolve the matter of his eligibility to be president. Ignoring this will not change the Constitution, nor will those concerned allow the matter to wither away. Either Barack Obama is or is not eligible to be President of the United States.
In the continuing news surrounding Obama’s citizenship is Janet Porter’s claim that Obama did not get his first passport until after becoming a U.S. Senator. This adds weight to his non-U.S. citizenship as his primary or declared citizenship. Did he travel to Pakistan using his Indonesian, Kenyan, or British citizenship? Porter notes that his 1981 travel to Indonesia and Pakistan were after his mother’s 1980 return from Indonesia and divorce from her Indonesian husband. Thus, adding more questions to Obama’s story and credibility as he claimed to have traveled first to see her, then to go on to Pakistan for a three week visit. She also revisits earlier questions about his allegedly forged birth certificate released by the campaign that has been repeatedly called into question.
As I previous wrote…
A new challenge to Senator Barack Obama’s citizenship was filed November 12th in California demanding that the court stop certification of the election results until the state’s secretary of state can ascertain from Senator Obama his legal qualification to be a candidate for President. This 18 page petition is a quick read. It offers a good summary of what is at stake and the questions that surround Senator Obama’s citizenship.
Granny Dunham not so important after all
It appears that Granny Dunham has served her purpose during the campaign as the oh-so important “rock of the family” but yet “typical white person” in now President-elect Barack Obama’s life. After a silent, but both respected and disrespected foil in Obama’s campaign, she died election day. Obama made barely the slightest mention of her passing. Today he even skips her memorial.
Recall that the week before the election now-President-elect Obama traveled alone, without his wife and daughters, to make a last brief visit to her. Michelle did not go and pay her respects, nor did she and Barack allow a last visit by their daughter’s to see their great-grandmother. Indeed, last summer when they visited Hawaii, only Barack ventured a visit.
Now, today, we see even more evidence of how little Granny Dunham meant to the family and we see a stark example of President-elect Obama’s ‘family values’. At 5 p.m. today, Hawaiian-time (See Star Bulletin), the memorial service for Madelyn Payne Dunham will be held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, where President-elect Obama’s grandfather is already buried. Not attending is President-elect Obama. In fact, none of the Obama family apparently care enough to travel, even for a brief moment, to attend today’s memorial service.

