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New look at whether McCain is a “natural-born” citizen
A new analysis by a University of Arizona law professor raises questions about whether Sen. John McCain is a “natural-born” citizen, a Constitutional requirement for the presidency.
The New York Times reported Friday that the detailed examination “concluded that neither Mr. McCain’s birth in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone nor the fact that his parents were American citizens is enough to satisfy the constitutional requirement that the president must be a natural-born citizen.”
Read the story here.


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By sanjeeda
July 12, 2008 3:46 AM | Link to this
Here the question arise that Mc cain weather he have the eligiblity to serve to as a head of states of acountry.What fedral states that any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, this status took effect on August 4, 1937,after one year of john born.sanjeeda Addiction Recovery Florida ">http://www.addictionrecovery.net/florida”> Addiction Recovery Florida
By L1M89
July 22, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this
There are rumors about both presumptive candidates eligibility. The LA Times claims both are eligible to be POTUS, yet the rumors persist.
“Barack Obama’s birth certificate revealed here”
[‘First, last fall, there were all kinds of people, a number of them Ron Paul supporters, dashing from Internet site to Internet site suggesting that John McCain could not serve as president of the United States.
That was because he was born outside the United States and, therefore, not native-born, as presidents must be constitutionally. McCain was, in fact, born in a U.S. military hospital in the Panama Canal Zone, where his father was serving in the Navy. That was, in fact, American-controlled territory at the time. More importantly, his parents were both American citizens, so he could have been born on Mars and still been an American at birth. And a sense of the Senate resolution took care of any lingering doubts.
Now come the rumors about Barack Obama’s birthplace, that he was really born in his father’s native Kenya, so like Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria, he can’t become a U.S. president.’]
Link - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html
“Obama’s BIG Birth Certificate PROBLEM”
Link - http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/obamas-certificate-of-birth-the-problems/
[‘I have acquired additional information related to my earlier posts today on the subject of Barack Obama’s Certification of Live Birth. My first post on this subject, Obama Birth Certificate, Fake?, included an analysis that I came across by a blogger named Polarik, who concluded based on 20 years of experience in computers, printers, and typewriters that the document provided by the Obama campaign (and published by Daily Kos) was manufactured.
In a subsequent post, Certification of Birth from Hawaii: Where’s the Seal?, I showed a Certification of Live Birth from Honolulu County for Patricia Decosta,’]
By L1M89
July 22, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this
More about Obama’s COLB.
“Winnie the Pooh’s birth certificate more authentic than Obama’s”
By Judi McLeod Thursday, June 26, 2008
[‘It was Richard Danzig, Navy Secretary under President Bill Clinton, now touted as National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, who told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”
Now Winnie the Pooh seems to have something that Barack Obama doesn’t: a legitimate birth certificate. Winnie’s birth certificate was signed by its creator A.A. Milne. See Winnie’s birth certificate here.
According to Israelinsider, “It is now a certainty that the “birth certificate” claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake.”
The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past few weeks. But now the senior spokesman of that Department has confirmed to Israel Insider what are the required features of a certified birth document - features that Obama’s purported “birth certificate” clearly lack.
“That strongly suggests that Daily Kos obtained the image from Photobucket, not the State of Hawaii, the Obama family, or the Obama campaign. Photobucket is not generally known as a credible supplier of official vital records for any of the fifty states, and the liberties that other Photoshoppers took with the certificates confirms this.
“Some of these oddities surfaced in Israel Insider’s previous article on the subject, but new comparative documentary evidence presented below, and official verification obtained by Israel Insider from a senior Hawaiian official, provides the strongest confirmation yet.”
An authentic Hawaiian birth certificate for another Hawaiian individual has since surfaced which, using the same official form as the presumptive Obama certificate, includes an embossed official seal and an authoritative signature, coming through from the back. Obama’s alleged certificate lacks those features, and the certificate number referencing the birth year has been blacked out, making it untraceable.’]
Link - http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3675
Hawaiian Official Quoted, Birth Certificate Challenged
Author: TexasDarlin Name: Texas Darlin Email: susanunpc@gmail.com
[‘Via the Israel Insider in a June 24 story: Janice Okubo, Director of Communications of the State of Hawaii Department of Health, told Israel Insider At this time there are no circumstances in which the State of Hawaii Department of Health would issue a birth certification or certification of live birth only electronically. And, she added, In the State of Hawaii all certified copies of certificates of live birth have the embossed seal and registrar signature on the back of the document. The Insider also published this image of the State of Hawaii seal that is ALWAYS included on certifications of birth, as I also confirmed with the Hawaii Vital Records office:
As I have noted numerous times the document proffered by Obama’s FightTheSmears site as evidence of his birth appears to be on the correct form, but it’s missing the embossed seal shown by the Insider, and it’s also missing the registrar signature referenced by Ms. Okubo. Both of these required features are present on the Certification of Live Birth for Patricia Decosta, which we have been using for comparison. Again, you can see high-resolution images of both documents (Obama’s and Decosta’s) on Polarik’s blog. The Israel Insider’s story, combined with my previous posts, especially Honolulu-Seattle, Roundtrip ‘61?, lends increasing credibility to the theory that Barack Obama was born someplace besides Hawaii. Three alternative locations are mentioned most frequently by alert readers at No Quarter: Washington State, Canada (specifically the Vancouver area), or Kenya. Posters have suggested that airline restrictions and other logistical issues in 1961 would make it highly improbable that Ann Dunham flew with her 3-week-old baby from Honolulu to Seattle (a 5+ hour flight); that Vancouver might have been the ideal harbor for Ann’s delivery; and that a flight from Kenya to Honolulu would stop over in Seattle. Read these and other comments by No Quarter readers HERE.’]
Link - http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/25/hawaiian-official-quoted-birth-certificate-challenged/
By L1M89
July 23, 2008 2:32 AM | Link to this
Has this story/rumor developed a life of its own?
Document forensics expert: Obama “birth certificate” a “horrible forgery” By Israel Insider staff July 20, 2008
Link - http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12993.htm
The purported Certification of Live Birth published by the Daily Kos left wing blog and claimed as genuine by the Obama campaign features a security border that differs dramatically from security borders on COLB documents before and after the one supposedly printed out for Obama in 2007.
Barack Obama may be on a world tour surrounded by a fawning media, but Sunday an expert in electronic document forensics released a detailed report on the purported birth certificate — actually a “Certification of Live Birth” or COLB — claimed as genuine by his campaign. The expert concludes with 100% certainty that it is a crudely forged fake: “a horribly forgery,” according to the analysis published on the popular right-wing Atlas Shrugs blog.
The purported birth certificate was published by the left wing Daily Kos blog on June 12 in response to unconfirmed reports that Obama was not in fact born in the United States (Canada and Kenya were suggested as the possible locations of his actual birth). Since he would in that case not be a natural born US citizen (his mother was not present in the US sufficiently long as an adult to pass American citizenship on to him automatically), he would not be eligible to be president. Israel Insider has followed the story in five previous articles (the previous one here) and uncovered evidence, most recently, of admitted forgery among Daily Kos bloggers, tolerance of electronic forgeries on the blog site, as well as efforts by a blog administrator to conceal the admission of forgery.
The latest examinaton of the purported documents is by far the most detailed and technically sophisticated to date.
Atlas Shrugs publisher Pamela Geller reports that the expert analyst, who goes by the screen name “Techdude”, is “an active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American College of Forensic Examiners, The International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners, International Information Systems Forensics Association — the list goes on. He also a board certified as a forensic computer examiner, a certificated legal investigator, and a licensed private investigator. He has been performing computer-based forensic investigations since 1993 (although back then it did not even have a formal name yet) and he has performed countless investigations since then.”
Perhaps the outspoken Israeli press corps will be able to do what their fawning American counterparts have failed to do so far. Obama’s visit this week to Israel will be an opportunity to begin asking the tough questions — however unpolitically correct — about his apparently forged birth certificate and what that means for his citizenship status and Constitutional fitness to be the next leader of the free world.
The pseudonym was apparently inadequate to prevent Techdude’s identity from being exposed. He reports that last week one or more persons “decided to track me down and vandalize my car and hang a dead mutilated rabbit from my front door in a lame attempt to intimidate me from proceeding with releasing any details of my analysis. They did succeed in delaying the report by a few days but instead of deterring me they just really pissed me off. To their credit, if I had not taken a few days off from the analysis I would have missed the most damning piece of evidence — the remnants of the previous security border.”
Techdude’s detailed report, which runs more than 3000 words and 20 pages with extensive magnified illustrations and comparisons, reaches the following conclusion about the documented that was first published on the Daily Kos extreme left-wing blog and subsequently publicly endorsed by the Obama campaign, both in statements by official spokesmen, and featured on its “Fight the Smears” website. Here are some of conclusions:
“The (Daily) KOS image security border pattern does not match any known specimen from any known year. It does not match the pre-2006 nor does it match the post-2006 certificate patterns. The placement of the text in all of the pre-2006 and post-2006 certificates are almost identical pixel location matches while the image?s text placement does not match any known specimen from any known year. The shape and kerning of the fonts used in the 2006 through 2008 certificates are identical while the shape and kerning of the fonts used in the image does not match any known specimen. The KOS image shows clear signs of tampering such as the mismatch in RGB and error levels, visible indications of the previous location of the erased security border, easily detectable patterns of repeating flaws around the new security border, EXIF data that says the image was last saved with Photoshop CS3 for Macintosh, and finally a technician from Hawaii who confirms it just looks wrong.”
The evidence, he says, allows for two possible scenarios by which the document was fabricated:
“There are two obvious scenarios used to create the image that can be ascertained from evidence. Either a real COLB was scanned into Photoshop and digitally edited or a real COLB was first scanned to obtain the graphic layout then blanked by soaking the document in solvent to remove the toner. After rescanning the blank page to a separate image the graphics from the previously obtained scan could then be easily applied to the blank scan after some editing and rebuilding. It would also explain why date stamp bleeds through the paper and the various bits of toner located around the image as well as the remnants of the previous location of a security border.”
The purported birth certificate was published by the Daily Kos on June 12 in response to unconfirmed reports that Obama was not in fact born in the United States (Canada and Kenya were suggested as the possible locations of his actual birth). Since he would in that case not be a natural born US citizen (his mother was not present in the US sufficiently long as an adult to pass American citizenship on to him automatically), he would not be eligible to be president.
After more than a month of controversy and demands that the Obama campaign produce a paper birth certificate for analysis, this damning new evidence raises the stakes for the democratic party and its front-runner.
Will Obama and his people continue to stonewall in the facing of the mounting evidence of forgery, and provide paper proof of an authentic, original birth certificate or even a genuine secondary Certificate of Live Birth? And will the mass media and mainstream pundits — which so far have hesitated to touch the hot potato — finally address the loaded issue of his possible unfitness to meet the basic Constitutional requirement for a President?
Perhaps the outspoken Israeli press corps will be able to do what their fawning American counterparts have failed to do so far. Obama’s visit this week to Israel will be an opportunity to begin asking the tough questions — however unpolitically correct — about his apparently forged birth certificate and what that means for his citizenship status and Constitutional fitness to be the next leader of the free world.
This is the sixth of a series on the purported Obama birth certificate. Here’s where you can find Part 1, 2, 3 4, and 5.