I see where the Factcheck.org "investigation" of Obama's proof of birth and citizenship was posted again here recently and purported to put the issue to rest.  Factcheck did nothing of the sort, and in my opinion, the fact that they jumped on the story, did an "investigation" of their own and were the second sight to post the Certificate of Live Birth is suspicious itself.

The reality is that the FactFactcheck Organization has quite a conflict of interest in covering Barack Obama because they are owned by longtime Obama supporter and employer, the Annenberg Foundation which has several ties to Obama and likely others that they refuse to reveral. Obama was the first Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which was a Division, or Project, of the Annenberg Foundation.

As noted, Factcheck.org, which was the second site to post the Certificate of Live Birth that is NOT the original birth certificate, though they and Obama would have you believe as much. It is also a Division, or Project, of the Annenberg Foundation.

Anyone who believes that organizations such as Factcheck do not protect their own, have private agendas, and play the scratch each others back and cover each others butts game, especially with those in the corrupt Illinois and Chigago scene, where a senatorship can be bought and sold, is living in lala land!

It is through the Annenberg Foundation that Obama met unrepentent Weather Underground member and leader Bill Ayers. Similar to the controversy over the actual birth certificate, school records and passports, the Annenberg Challenge files housed at the University of Illinois-Chicago have been locked down - after an initial promise to provide them to the media and public. Among other things, those files document an educational initiative started by Bill Ayers and chaired by Barack Obama and might shed much light on the relationship the two had as opposed to the public denials by Obama.

What factcheck looked at was NOT the original birth certificate but merely a Certificate of Live Birth created long after the original birth certificate was issued.  Instead of all the blah, blah, blah over that subsequent document, why not simply release the original?  Original birth certificates in Hawaii can be filed for people who were actually born outside Hawaii.

Likewise, student records can indicate whether a student ever applied for aid as a foreign born student and passports can indicate if anyone ever had one issued as a citizen of another country.

Now, none of those may apply to Obama - but if not, why not simply release the records.  When something is kept private it is for a reason, and I can think of no good ones that would prevent a President of the United States proving his eligiblity with full disclosure of original documents and records.

There should be no doubts and it is easily within Obama's control to erase them once and for all.  The fact that he has chosen to do just the opposite would seem damning, or at least a very justifiable cause for continued suspicion.

So, once again - why not just release the damned original birth certificate and other records?  Simply stating the he doesn't have to and labeling those who want to see proof as nutcases doesn't cut it.  Produce the records and the "nutcases" will be silenced.  Or vindicated as the case may be.  There is only ONE way to know.

DQ