What is Obama talking about?

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Monday, July 05, 2010

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In his speech last week apparently justifying his open-borders policy, Barack Obama said this:

"Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth; it's a matter of faith."

This is, of course, wishful thinking on his part. And I believe it more than a statement by him about immigration. I suggest it is a rationalization for his presidency.

What is he talking about?

Of course being an American is a matter of blood and birth. It always has been. That's what the laws of the land clearly state. The only way in which being an American is a matter of "faith" is in the sense that being an American is also a creed. When you become an American through legal immigration, you adopt that creed – which is an expressed agreement to live under the precepts of the Constitution.

Let the world know you stand with the Constitution and transparency. Display the "Where's the Birth Certificate?" magnetic bumper sticker.

In 2008, for instance, the U.S. Senate debated and investigated whether John McCain was a natural born citizen and eligible to serve as president, having been born in the Panama Canal zone. The Senate voted unanimously that he was a natural born citizen because of blood – both parents being U.S. citizens.

Normally, natural born citizens are born in the U.S. to two citizens.

That's why the mystery of Obama's birth certificate remains a source of fascination to so many Americans. The man he claims as his biological father was clearly not a U.S. citizen. But, of course, without an original long-form birth certificate, we don't know for certain who his real parents were, nor do we know where he was actually born.

I suppose if I were in Obama's situation, I would want to muse about American citizenship – natural born or otherwise – having something to do with "faith."

What is faith?

One of the definitions is: "belief that is not based on proof." I suspect this is the definition Obama had in mind when he invoked this term.

That's what he wants for America. We should accept that every person in the country is a citizen – and we should accept this on faith.

That's why he doesn't like the Arizona law that requires proof.

That's why he doesn't like the controversy about his birth certificate, because the birth certificate is documentary evidence of an event that took place some 49 years ago. He wants us to accept his autobiographical account of his life on faith.

I happen to be a person of faith. But it's a different kind of faith altogether. My faith is a trust in God and in His promises as made through Christ and the Scriptures by which humans are justified or saved.

I don't have a lot of faith in men – especially politicians.

But there's something else Obama said in that speech that is deeply offensive regarding this issue of citizenship.

"Now, we can't forget that this process of immigration and eventual inclusion has often been painful," he said. "Each new wave of immigrants has generated fear and resentment towards newcomers, particularly in times of economic upheaval."

This statement is a clear indictment of anyone who suggests the government should actually enforce the laws of the land regarding immigration. Anyone who does so, in Obama's world, is some kind of jingoistic fear-monger who resents newcomers – in other words, a racist.

Again, this is the same card Obama has played in avoiding his legal, moral and ethical responsibility to prove who he is, to reveal to the American public details about his own life that other presidents and American politicians have willingly done – birth certificates, student records, Selective Service documents, travel papers, health histories, etc. If you don't believe him, or if you question him, his detractors call you a "racist" and other epithets.

Obama has refused to release any of those things. He wants us to accept his word on "faith" – or face the consequences of marginalization, ridicule and ad hominem attack.

However, with his autobiographical accounts now proven to be more literary fantasy than non-fiction, he doesn't give the American people much on which to base that "faith."