Obama Definitely Born in Hawaii

You may recall that some folks tryiig to mess up Obama's campaign claimed he was not a "natural born citizen" of the US either because he was a) actually born in Kenya, not Hawaii, or b) had a non-citizen father. He is clearly a citizen because his mother was, and any claims he was born anywhere but HI have been disproved. It was a giant waste of court time to have to go thru this. OTOH, the same claims were made by the same nut cases about McCain as he was born in Panama which they said was not "in the US" altho it was under US control at the time, so he wasn't a "natural born" citizen altho he was a citizen.

Quotes from 2 different sources (papers)
"But Hawaii Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino and the state's registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, say they have determined there's no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii."

"And speaking of births, Hawaii Insider just has to mention that the Supreme Court ruling involving Obama's Hawaii birth certificate comes as no surprise, not simply because local officials have authenticated it, or because his birth notice was printed in a Honolulu newspaper. It's mainly because if there's one thing Hawaii knows better than anyone else, it's who's from there (and who's not). Try to fake that, and you'll end up in hotter water than anything the blogosphere could cook up."

And there is more here.

There was also a claim that Obama had dual citizenship, the other being Kenyan. He did. However, it was lost when he turned 21.

His father was a citizen of the British colony Kenya and then Kenya in 1963 when it became independent. As a citizen of the UKC who was born in Kenya, Obama's father automatically received Kenyan citizenship via subsection (1). So given that Obama qualified for citizen of the UKC status at birth and given that Obama's father became a Kenyan citizen via subsection (1), it follows that Obama did in fact have Kenyan citizenship after 1963. So The Rocky Mountain News story was at least partially correct.

But the paper failed to note that the Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults. Kenya recognizes dual citizenship for children, but Kenya's Constitution specifies that at age 21, Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country automatically lose their Kenyan citizenship unless they formally renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of allegiance to Kenya.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.


Word is that Obama is likely to take his family to Kauai, HI, for Christmas vacation - one last burst of freedom before he has to take on all our problems.