How little we know about Obama ~ By Joseph Farah

By Joseph Farah Posted: July 15, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 He's been president for six months. But it's amazing how little we know about Barack Obama. This was illustrated by a WND story last week about where Obama was born. Even this is a mystery. The story pointed out how many references there were to a birth at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. That was the claim of a United Press Internal story. It was the claim of Snopes.com – a little website that members of Congress have frequently cited as their authority that Obama is indeed a "natural born citizen." Even Obama's own official website retained for months a posting from About.com making the claim for Queen's. But all those claims ran counter to one made by Obama himself in January, when he allegedly wrote a letter to another Honolulu hospital, Kapi'olani Medical Center, saying he was born there. Of course, the only living person in the world who claims to have been present for Obama's birth is his paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, who says it took place in Mombasa, Kenya. Who you gonna believe? Well, you won't get any help from the state of Hawaii or any of the hospitals there. Both of the Honolulu facilities have steadfastly refused to confirm or deny the birth of the first black president. Within hours of the posting of that WND story, "facts" began to change. Snopes and UPI changed their stories. When a WND story was published a month ago pointing out that Obama's "certification of live birth" was not acceptable even in a Hawaiian homesteading program open only to natives, "policies" changed. Of course, you can change the written record, you can change policies, you can change your mind, but, so far, no one has proposed changing the Constitution. It still says today what it has always said since it was first ratified: To become president of the United States, you must be a "natural born citizen." Isn't it about time we asked for proof? Why is it considered "kooky" to do so? [CONTINUE READING]