“One Hundred Articles Of Impeachment Against
Obama”—this title appears over articles posted at http://conservativepapers.com/news/2012/04/0/a-case-for-impeaching-obama/#.UY7ExKI3vCY
(April 4, 2013), http://www.knowthelies.com/node/8922 (05/07/2013), http://www.westernjournalism.com/one-hundred-articles-of-impeachment-against-obama/
(May 9, 2013), and http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-hundred-articles-of-impeachment.html (May 10, 2013). The original seems to be the one posted by Peter Paton at ConservativePapers.com.
I first encountered the “One Hundred” at the Western Journalism website, which stops
its quotation at the end of Item #1 and
provides a hyperlink at that point: “Read more at knowthelies.com.” So, I promptly navigated to “Know The Lies” and did
a doubletake when I reached Item #15, which is factually false:
15. Occidental College Transcripts
Reveals [sic] Obama Claimed Foreign Citizenship
to Get Scholarship? http://tinyurl.com/czldzx8
Ladies and Gentlemen, Well-Intentioned Patriots. . . ,
Obama’s transcripts and other student records have NOT been released by
Occidental College!
Consider the following sources:
(1) An article entitled “'Smoking
Gun' in Breitbart Mystery Video,” published by World Net Daily on 03/07/2012 [http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/breitbarts-mystery-tapes-on-obama-released],
makes passing reference to an unsuccessful lawsuit: “A lawsuit at one point
obtained an order for Occidental to reveal Obama’s student records. The aim was
to find out whether he obtained aid or assistance as a foreign student, lending
credibility to the argument that he does not qualify to be president under the
Constitution’s ‘natural-born citizen’ requirement.”
(2) Excerpt
from “Obama ducks calls to
release his collegiate transcripts,” by Dave Boyer, published in The Washington Times on May 28, 2012:
A story
even circulated that Mr. Obama came to the U.S. from Indonesia to study on a
Fulbright scholarship under the name “Barry Soetoro” — the last name of his
stepfather — although Politifact and FactCheck.org have both debunked that
claim.
The same
story falsely claimed that Occidental released Mr. Obama’s college transcripts
as a result of litigation. There was litigation, but courts have never ordered
the college to turn over Mr. Obama’s records.
A
conservative Web site, thetrenches.us, last week raised its “reward” to $20,000
for anyone who can provide Mr. Obama’s college transcripts. [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/28/obama-ducks-calls-to-release-his-collegiate-transc/]
(3) Excerpts from “The
Mystery Of Barack Obama Continues,” by Steve
Baldwin for the Western Center for Journalism:
The president who
campaigned for a more “open government” and “full disclosure” will not unseal
his medical records, his school records, his birth records or his passport
records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records,
or his Occidental College records—he will not even release his Columbia College
thesis. . . .
…And, according to attorney Gary Kreep, “his
Occidental College records are important as they may show he attended there as
a foreign exchange student.” Indeed, Obama used his Indonesian name “Barry
Soetoro” while attending Occidental. Kreep has filed lawsuits challenging
Obama’s eligibility to be president and as part of his lawsuit he requested
Obama’s records from Occidental. However, Obama’s lawyers quickly moved to stop
Occidental from honoring this request. [http://www.westernjournalism.com/exclusive-investigative-reports/the-mystery-of-barack-obama-continues/]
(I couldn’t find the date on Baldwin’s
article, but the last sentence quoted above sums up my argument here.)
(4) The following Comment posted at FreeRepublic.com provides a
hyperlink to the website of Occidental College. Unfortunately that link is no
longer active; however, the quotation agrees verbatim with what another
commenter, citing the same URL, posted on another blog.
To: bimboeruption
Obama’s Occidental transcripts have
never been released:
http://www.oxy.edu/x7992.xml
Barack Obama attended Occidental College from fall 1979 through spring 1981 and then transferred to Columbia University in New York. He is not a graduate of Occidental; however, the Occidental College Alumni Association bylaws state that anyone who completes at least eight courses of undergraduate work (or a year of graduate studies) is eligible for alumni status when their class graduates. The 1974 federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (34 CFR Part 99) protects the privacy of student education records. We, therefore, cannot disclose students’ classes, grade point averages, majors or other such information. President Obama’s transcripts and other student records have not been released by Occidental.
Barack Obama attended Occidental College from fall 1979 through spring 1981 and then transferred to Columbia University in New York. He is not a graduate of Occidental; however, the Occidental College Alumni Association bylaws state that anyone who completes at least eight courses of undergraduate work (or a year of graduate studies) is eligible for alumni status when their class graduates. The 1974 federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (34 CFR Part 99) protects the privacy of student education records. We, therefore, cannot disclose students’ classes, grade point averages, majors or other such information. President Obama’s transcripts and other student records have not been released by Occidental.
. . .posted on 6/20/2011 1:02:29 AM by Zhang Fei . . . . [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2737037/posts]
* * * * *
The next evening, I
returned to KnowTheLies.com to
finish reading the “One Hundred.” This time I reached Item #31, where another
alarm blasted in my noggin when I followed the links:
31. Obama, aka Barry Soetoro deliberately concealed
his true illegal background to be POTUS, TRUTH out: why #Obama records sealed FOREIGN student ID http://twitpic.com/aufduf Can we trust Pres. who games system
– lies
The 1st link in Item #31
actually leads to 1964-dated correspondence concerning Barry’s father and
Harvard University’s efforts to find a good reason to “get rid of him” and send
him back to Kenya instead of supporting an extension of his student visa.
The 2nd link is non-operative
for me because I do not have a Twitter account.
The 3rd link leads to the
image of an alleged Columbia University ID card issued to “Barry Soetoro,
Foreign Student.” A Commenter on that page remarked that it’s very easy to
Photoshop. Although many conservative readers, including myself, strongly
suspect that Barry was born in Kenya, we can’t conclusively prove it yet—despite
Breitbart.com’s revelation (on May 17, 2012) of Obama’s literary agent’s 1991
booklet stating that Obama was “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and
Hawaii.”
HOWEVER, very
soon after Breitbart published an image of that 1991 booklet, blogger Doug Ross
used the Wayback Archive to trace the online revisions made to the booklet.
Ross found that on April 3, 2007 the booklet still read “born in Kenya”; but on April 21, 2007, the wording had
been revised to “born in Hawaii.”
Ross summarizes his findings:
As I've demonstrated
here, Obama's bio was carefully edited over the course of 17 years to reflect his
various accomplishments.
It was only a few months after his presidential candidacy was announced [on February 10, 2007] that his Kenyan "birthplace" became Hawaiian to confirm his eligibility for office. Obama remains a client to this day, which helps explain the literary agent's willingness to instantly offer an explanation for the discrepancy. [http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/05/barack-obamas-biographical-brief-was.html]
It was only a few months after his presidential candidacy was announced [on February 10, 2007] that his Kenyan "birthplace" became Hawaiian to confirm his eligibility for office. Obama remains a client to this day, which helps explain the literary agent's willingness to instantly offer an explanation for the discrepancy. [http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/05/barack-obamas-biographical-brief-was.html]
Is this not an excellent example of “circumstantial
evidence” that Someone is playing footsie with the facts [http://www.nolo.com/dictionary/circumstantial-evidence-term.html]? Meanwhile, the
Republican majority in the House of Representatives continues to tippy-toe
around the pachyderm in the parlor. . . .
* * * * *
As
of May 11, 2013, I’ve noticed two other problematic entries in the “One Hundred”:
51. Obama got onto the Indiana ballot
through voter fraud in 2008.
96. Agents of the Obama Regime conspired
in 2008 to get Obama’s name illegally put on the Indiana Primary Ballot.
Although Mr. Paton’s assertions are correct in this case,
Items #51 and #96 are essentially redundant
with each other and should be combined into one listing. E.g.: Obama’s name was fraudulently placed on the
Indiana Primary Ballot in 2008.
A jury in
South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary
Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two
Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal
scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all
counts. [Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/26/officials-found-guilty-in-obama-clinton-ballot-petition-fraud/#ixzz2T2XWbIdr
]
Since
Mr. Paton evidently made at least three errors in his compilation of “One
Hundred,” it is possible that other errors have occurred. Meanwhile, before
compiling such a lengthy list, one would do well to examine the meaning of the
phrase "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes
and Misdemeanors" in Article II, Section 4
of the Constitution, as Jon Roland of the Constitution Society has already
done [http://www.constitution.org/cmt/high_crimes.htm].
In conclusion (for now), here is a document compiled in September 1998, apparently in anticipation of impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton:
“Constitutional Grounds for Presidential
Impeachment, Provisions in the Constitution that are Relevant to Impeachment
and Past Impeachment Inquiries” [http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/SPECIALREPORTS/impeachment.html]
Cheryl J. Rutledge, Ph.D.
Musician, Retired Educator, Editor
www.AcademicEnglishEditing-DrRutledge.com
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