Saturday, May 11, 2013

97 ½ [?] Articles of Impeachment Against Obama


One Hundred 97 ½ [?] Articles of Impeachment Against Obama
                                  

“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.

. . .posted on 6/20/2011 1:02:29 AM by Zhang Fei . . . . [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2737037/posts]
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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]

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. . . .

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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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