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AIM's Kincaid: "It is not unreasonable to ask questions about Barack Obama's birthplace"

August 05, 2009 11:31 am ET by Media Matters staff

From an August 4 press release issued by Accuracy in Media: 

Cliff Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, has released a copy of his own birth certificate, in order to demonstrate what needs to be done to resolve the growing controversy over the alleged birth certificate of President Barack Obama.  "My birth certificate includes the names of my mother and father, my mother's doctor, and the hospital in which I was born," said Kincaid. "This certified copy of an original long form document is what anyone who wants to be president should be prepared to produce. Why is this a controversy?"

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Kincaid continued, "It is not unreasonable to ask questions about Barack Obama's birthplace. Anybody who has an original copy of their own birth certificate, or a certified copy of their own original birth certificate, should immediately understand that the Obama version is lacking in basic information that should be publicly available."

AIM describes itself as "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage."

Previously:

Introducing Rep. Pence at CPAC, Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid questioned whether Obama was born in the U.S.

Tags: Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media

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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 05, 2009 11:38 am ET)
         
      This certified copy of an original long form document is


      Exactly what Obama produced and you all derided as a fake. So why should I believe this POS Kincaid's is any more accurate than Obama's?...
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      • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 05, 2009 11:51 am ET)
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        Point being, of course, that Kincaid got exactly what Obama got; but while I'm to believe that Obama's copy of his CoLB is obviously not enough to prove he's an American, that POS Kincaid obviously thinks it's enough to prove that he's an American. Hypocrisy in action, folks, hypocrisy in action...
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    • Author by bintx (August 05, 2009 12:02 pm ET)
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      Each state is different and their documents will be different. The only requirement is that they follow the Federal guidelines. Hawaii's do.

      Having said that, I'm guessing that Kincaid doesn't realize that he just opened himself up to identity theft by posting that birth certificate online. That format has all the items necessary for someone to re-create themselves as Kincaid. Stupid.
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    • Author by JamesOrleans (August 05, 2009 12:24 pm ET)
         
      Obama has no one to blame but himself for the controversy. He has failed to produce records that past presidents have routinely made available to the public, even if they proved embarrassing (long form birth certificate, school records, etc.)

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    • Author by old1 (August 05, 2009 5:12 pm ET)
         
      We are not trying to establish whether he is or is not a Citizen or an American, or whether or not he has some piece of paper hidden under lock and key in Hawaii. After 6 months the FBI or CIA could fake the Dead Sea Scrolls. (I guess he misplaced the long form he says he found in one of his books).
      What we want decided is whether having a Non American father who was a British Citizen at the time of his birth in 1961, and that man's British Citizenship causing his new born son to be born a British Citizen at the time of that birth, (see the British Nationality Act of 1948), allows Senator Obama to ever be considered a NATURAL BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN. To me it seems he can't be Natural Born for the same reasons our Founding Fathers saw they were not Natural Born when they first added that requirement to our Constitution 222 years ago. You see they had British Citizens as parents and some were born British Citizens at birth. To solve this problem they added "unless you are a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution", to their new document. Obama was not alive 222 years ago and was not an American when the Constitution was adopted. With a Non American father and being born a British Citizen how can anyone even think he is possibly NATURAL BORN? Born of Blood and Soil! The Blood of two (2) American Citizen Parents at the time of ones Birth, and that Birth on American Soil.
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      • Author by Jurgan (August 06, 2009 9:35 am ET)
           
        The fourteenth amendment clearly states that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen. Nice try.
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