Kenyan MP James Orengo
During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country’s minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America’s election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:
“If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation,” Orengo posited, “how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?”
Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer “living in the past,” since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to “ethnic consideration and objectives.”
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from May 2010
Born in Kenya moved to Indonesia, King O
Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, King O
Destroyed the Constitution, King O
Was going to end the wars
Did he? No! No!
Was going to be so transparent
Is he? No! No!
Thought he might legalize the ganja
Did he? No! No!
A major disappointment
Was he? Yes! Yes!
Born in Kenya moved to Indonesia, King O
Kenyan officials can make mistakes, you know.
ReplyDelete"Typo" may not be the best word. Error would be. Obama was not born in Kenya.
These are the facts:
(1) In 1961 virtually NO US women traveled late in pregnancy. Only if she had traveled late in pregnancy could the birther story work because, after all, she was attending classes.
(2) A return trip from Hawaii to Kenya would have been ENORMOUSLY expensive in today’s dollars because there were no direct flights, and in fact since there was little airline competition, long international air trips were particularly expensive.
(3) There is NO document in Kenya showing that Obama’s mother arrived in Kenya, gave birth in Kenya, or departed Kenya. Nor is there a US INS document showing that she left New York in 1961 (which was the way to go in those days, no direct flights) for anywhere outside of the USA (and New York INS files have NOT been lost). Nor is there any INS document showing that she returned to the USA or that Obama was checked into the USA.
(4) There is no US State Department document showing that Obama’s parents applied for a document to allow Obama to enter the USA in Kenya. That would have had to have been either a US visa on a foreign passport or Obama being added to his mother’s US passport while they were both in Kenya). The records of applications for visas and for changes to US passports in Kenya in 1961 have not been lost, and the Bush Administration at the request of the McCain Campaign is certain to have checked to see if such a document existed. IF it had existed, they would have published it and McCain would have won.
(5) Only 27 people came to the USA from Kenya in the fiscal year 1961.
(6) There IS a Hawaii birth certificate for Obama. This is proven not merely by the document itself but by (a) the “index data” showing that there was a file on Obama, (b) the birth notices for Obama in the Hawaii newspapers, and the statement by the newspapers and the DOH of Hawaii that in 1961 the papers only took birth notices for the “Health Bureau Statistics” section (where Obama’s birth notice appeared) from the DOH and not from relatives. The DOH has further stated that in 1961 it did not issue birth certificates with a Hawaii place of birth on it (such as Obama’s Honolulu place of birth) to people who were not born at that place of birth. (And for that matter, it still doesn’t).
(7) The fact that a Hawaii birth certificate listing Honolulu as the place of birth exists in the file is confirmed not only by the document itself, and not only by the notices in the newspapers and not only by the “index data” but by three Republican officials in Hawaii and several Democrats too, including the current director of health who stated in writing that she had seen it being copied onto security paper to make the official long form birth certificate.
For Obama to actually have been born in Kenya, his relatives would have had to have been rich enough to afford the trip (which they were not. Obama’s father was a furniture salesman and his mother at the time was a low-level bank employee). Obama’s mother would have had to have taken the risk of Yellow Fever to go to Kenya. Kenya would have had to have conspired to hide all documents showing that she arrived.
The US INS and US State Department would have had to have conspired to hide their documents. The Hawaii government back when the Republicans were in charge in 2007 and 2008 would have had to have conspired to publish false “index data”–and all the microfilm copies of the newspapers birth announcements in Hawaii in dozens of US libraries would have had to have been forged.
Today, apparently, Mitt Romney had his campaign release his birth certificate, and guess what, it is a computer-generated short-form birth certificate.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-usa-campaign-romney-birth-certificatebre84s1gf-20120529,0,5483593.story
It does not have the name of the hospital or the delivery doctor or any signatures from the doctor or the mother. The image of the document provided does not show the color of the security paper or an embossed seal, and there is a clear “void” on the document. What is Romney hiding?