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UPDATE: Obama's Foreign Citizenship
Senator David Vitter supports challenging Obama’s citizenship in court
Posted by Pradip Koti on Jul 13, 2010
The dispute over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President should be resolved in court says David Vitter, a Republican Senator from Louisiana. To take such a strong stand on the issue, Vitter becomes just the latest high-profile leader challenging Obama's legitimacy. The President’s “birth certificate” has been made public by AP although the image of the document posted online actually is a “certification of live birth,” which was available to those not born in the state under Hawaiian procedures, reported on Vitter’s comments. At a town hall meeting in Metairie, La., a constituent asked about Obama’s “refusal to produce” a “birth certificate.”
Washington (AP) Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said, “he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship in court.” Vitter is running for re-election. He made the comments when a constituent asked what he would do about Obama’s “refusal to produce a valid birth certificate.” According to a video of the event, “Such claims about Obama’s birth certificate have been discredited. But with the crowd applauding the question, Vitter responded that although he doesn’t personally have legal standing to bring litigation, he supports conservative legal organizations and others who would bring that to court.“
A federal judge in Washington threw out a lawsuit on the issue, calling the case a waste of the court’s time and suggesting the plaintiff’s attorney may have to compensate the President’s lawyer.
The Obama Passport Issue
The Obama birth issue can be resolved by Obama answering one simple question: What passport did he use when he was shuttling between New York, Jakarta, and Karachi? How did a young man who arrived in New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world trip just one month later? And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York, Jakarta, and Karachi, what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration?
The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers. It makes the debate over Obama's citizenship a rather short and simple one.
Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20?
A : Yes, by his own admission.
Q: What passport did he travel under?
A: There are only three possibilities.
1) He traveled with a U.S. Passport,
2) He traveled with a British passport, or
3) He traveled with an Indonesian passport.
Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. Passport in 1981?
A: No. It is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department's "no travel" list in 1981.
Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an Indonesian passport. If he were traveling with a British passport that would provide proof that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in Hawaii as he claims. And if he were traveling with an Indonesian passport that would prove that he relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held, British or American, prior to being adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967.
Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people need to know how Obama managed to become a "natural born" American citizen between 1981 and 2008.
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