Hawaii senator questions Obama’s true birth father
The lone Republican in the Hawaii State Senate told a radio interviewer today he believes “the real issue” stopping Barack Obama from releasing his long-form birth certificate is something the president has to hide, perhaps even the name of his actual birth father.
Hawaii State Sen. Sam Slom further told the host of “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on WABC 770 AM in New York City that so long as Obama refuses to be transparent about his past, questions about the president’s birth remain “a legitimate issue.”
“My particular point of view – and why I haven’t identified myself as a ‘birther,’ per se – is that [Obama] probably was born [in Hawaii] and that the real issue is not the birth certificate, but what’s on the birth certificate,” Slom told Klein.
Asked what that could be, Slom said, “It could have to do with what his name is on the birth certificate, who is actually listed as his father, the citizenship of the father.”
He continued, “My belief is that there is a birth certificate, he was born here, but that there is information that for reasons known only to him he doesn’t want released. If it were just the birth certificate, that would be one thing, but it’s his school records, it’s employment records. … Why would anybody, let alone the president of the United States, spend millions of dollars in legal fees to keep that hidden?”
“As long as that goes on,” he concluded, “I think it’s a legitimate issue.”
The multi-layered PDF digital file of Barry Soetoro’s alleged birth certificate lists his father as Barack Hussein Obama, a citizen of Kenya, East Africa. Perhaps now he can also explain how he used his Indonesian Passport, as a citizen of Indonesia, to travel to Jacobabad and Karachi, Pakistan in 1981. Or perhaps let us see his student records from Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, Columbia University from 1982 to 1983, and finally Harvard University from 1988 to 1991. Or how he got a job with Business International Corporation (BI) between 1983-85, a known cover organization for the CIA.
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