Actually, the birth certificate thing is over. Hawaii produced official documentation. Berg then tried to argue that when Obama's mother remarried an Indonesian citizen, Obama became a naturalized Indonesian citizen by default.
But that's not what
any of the relevant laws say.
Berg is an utter crackpot, Joy.
I'm aware Berg is a frivolous lawsuit filer. However there are currently 25 lawsuits over the legal eligibility of Obama's candidacy. A crackpot is not necessarily wrong.
If "the birth certificate were over" the Obama campaign would not now have to officially respond to Berg's suit by filing the physical paperwork with the Supreme Court by December 1st.
Hawaii did NOT produce official documentation. An anonymous state official claimed to have see "a certificate" which "looks the same as the copy online". They could not verify it without showing the actual certificate--which Obama refuses to allow be made public.
The Indonesian citizenship is interesting given that Obama traveled to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport in 1980. But the real issue is that he was not born on U.S. or soil that the U.S. [then] had legal jurisdiction over (such as McCain in the Panama Canal Zone).
Obama's own websites list him as "a native citizen".
My brother was born in Nebraska because Omaha had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). He has a Nebraska birth certificate and an Iowan baptismal certificate. Either is accepted as the base certificate for proving his identity. He is a native son of Iowa but he was a born denizen of Nebraska.
I do believe that Obama's underage pregnant mother lied to her parents about her marital status and had her son's birth registered in Hawaii a week after his birth in Kenya and that her parents continued to let Obama believe he was born in the USA. When or if they ever told him "the truth" or what was their version of it is highly debatable. But by the time the styled Barack H. Obama jr ran for the US Senate seat in Illinois, he knew there was an issue proving he was a natural-born US citizen and having been tapped to be the First Black President, was actively covering up that fact.
I would dearly love to be proven completely wrong (contrary to opinion I do prefer Obama to McCain politically) but the only way anyone--especially the Supreme Court will be satisfied as his legal, natural citizenship status is by allowing the State of Hawaii to release whatever certificate they have pertaining to Obama's birth.
An official, stamped, sealed Birth Certificate which was signed by a Hawaiian doctor confirms he is eligible to be the next President of the United States--no matter what father may or may not be listed.
An official Certificate of Live Birth confirms his birth was registered with the State of Hawaii and his exact birth certificate most likely was issued elsewhere by the actual country of his birth.
Obama co-sponsored the Congressional Act which formally recognized McCain's status as "a natural-born citizen" as defined in the Constitution of the U.S. for eligibility as a candidate for President of the U.S.
Were it that Obama was born in Hawaii and whoever lied for whatever reasons about the father or race or nationality listed, he is still eligible to be the President-elect and can formally enact a bill (which I'm sure would sail through Congress with McCain's public approval) which specifically defines a "natural-born citizen" and this chaos need not happen again.
But if he was not born on U.S. soil--and even though he might not have intended fraud, Obama would not have been an eligible candidate and thus would forfeit his Senate seat and presumed status as President-Elect. As he said about his half-aunt who was found to be living illegally in the US in public housing yet able to contribute to his campaign: "this is a nation of laws and they must be followed." One can't pick and chose the rules."
I don't want the first real black President of the United States to be a deliberate fraud. I want him to be the President through honest means.
