Obama's certificate from Factcheck.org:Sources
United States Department of State. "Application for a U.S. Passport." Accessed 20 Aug. 2008.
State of Hawaii Department of Health. "Request for Certified Copy of Birth Record." Accessed 20 Aug. 2008.
Hollyfield, Amy. "Obama's Birth Certificate: Final Chapter." Politifact.com. 27 Jun. 2008.
This is just plain ridiculous.
Smear campaigns against presidential hopeful Barack Obama have reached a new low as continued accusations -- and now a lawsuit -- claim the candidate is not a natural born US citizen.
A non-profit, national fact-checking organization concluded that "Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said."
An official from the Hawaii Health Department called speculation on his citizenship "pretty ridiculous."
But that hasn't prevented a prominent Philadelphia attorney and avowed Hillary Clinton supporter from filing a lawsuit against the candidate on grounds that he is constitutionally ineligible, America's Right.com reported.
The suit seeks to stop Obama from continuing his candidacy and to legally prohibit the Democratic National Convention next week from formally nominating him.
"I filed this action at this time to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated," said the attorney, Philip Berg, who is also a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate for the Democratic party.
Attacks on Obama's eligibility to run for president include claims that his Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery, citing a black rectangle and the lack of an official state seal as evidence.
But those allegations were squashed when Annenberg Political Factcheck and the Hawaii Health Department both verified the document.
The health department has been denying nearly weekly requests for the original because -- like death, marriage and divorce documents -- birth certificates are only given out to relatives, The Honolulu Advertiser reported.
To help quell the rumors that Obama wasn't a US citizen, the Obama campaign posted a photo of the certificate on the campaign Web site as well as the Fight The Smears site, but for skeptics that didn't prove anything.
"They responded and apparently it isn't good enough that he posted his birth certificate," said Hawaii Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo. "They say they want it because they claim he is not a citizen of the United States. It's pretty ridiculous."
More from Raw Story.
Smear campaigns against presidential hopeful Barack Obama have reached a new low as continued accusations -- and now a lawsuit -- claim the candidate is not a natural born US citizen.
A non-profit, national fact-checking organization concluded that "Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said."
An official from the Hawaii Health Department called speculation on his citizenship "pretty ridiculous."
But that hasn't prevented a prominent Philadelphia attorney and avowed Hillary Clinton supporter from filing a lawsuit against the candidate on grounds that he is constitutionally ineligible, America's Right.com reported.
The suit seeks to stop Obama from continuing his candidacy and to legally prohibit the Democratic National Convention next week from formally nominating him.
"I filed this action at this time to avoid the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated," said the attorney, Philip Berg, who is also a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate for the Democratic party.
Attacks on Obama's eligibility to run for president include claims that his Hawaii birth certificate is a forgery, citing a black rectangle and the lack of an official state seal as evidence.
But those allegations were squashed when Annenberg Political Factcheck and the Hawaii Health Department both verified the document.
The health department has been denying nearly weekly requests for the original because -- like death, marriage and divorce documents -- birth certificates are only given out to relatives, The Honolulu Advertiser reported.
To help quell the rumors that Obama wasn't a US citizen, the Obama campaign posted a photo of the certificate on the campaign Web site as well as the Fight The Smears site, but for skeptics that didn't prove anything.
"They responded and apparently it isn't good enough that he posted his birth certificate," said Hawaii Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo. "They say they want it because they claim he is not a citizen of the United States. It's pretty ridiculous."
More from Raw Story.
I don't see the media pressing on about McCains birth certificate contraversy. Here are the facts of McCain's birth:
John McCain was born at Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone. At that time, the Panama Canal was under American control. Of course, McCain has claim that he is a natural born U.S. citizen.
But, McCain's birth abroad still stirs legal debate:
Curiously enough, there is no record of McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone Health Department's bound birth registers, which are publicly available at the National Archives in College Park. A search of the "Child Born Abroad" records of the U.S. consular service for August 1936 included many U.S. citizens born in the Canal Zone but did not turn up any mention of John McCain.
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