VIDEO- President Obama’s family speaks out on birthers, Donald Trump

Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011, 3:13 pm by GottaLaff
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The Obama family is (rightly) slamming Donald Trump for his utter birther idiocy, which also serves as a ratings push for the “news” media, and of course yet another disgraceful and desperate attempt to get attention by the rich guy with the embarrassingly bad comb-over.

Last Saturday, the President’s aunt, Zeituni Oyango said this:

“He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii… A naked lie in the name of the Lord… He’s lying… And I challenge him. Let him call me and we’ll talk… Let him come and ask me.”

She also said that, back in 1961, when she was a girl in Kenya, her brother (President Obama’s father) sent the family a letter– from Hawaii– announcing Obama’s birth.

From Hawaii. Hawaii, USA. That Hawaii.

President Obama’s sister is speaking up, too:

“I think it’s unfortunate. He was born in Hawaii, there is a tremendous amount of proof that has already been presented,” Maya Soetero-Ng told CNN’s Piers Morgan in an interview scheduled to air Tuesday. “I think that it is time for people to put that to bed, put it to rest completely…. I think it’s a shame and I think that my brother should definitely be president for a second term,” Soetero-Ng said. “And that’s really all I have to say about it.”

Here’s what I have to say… read my lips:

What an inane distraction this is. While it’s great that the president’s family is speaking out, the birther crowd still won’t believe them, and the lunacy will continue. Let’s get past this already and work on the financial and political health of this country, rather than the mental illness and obsession of this particular gang of whackadoodles.

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  • Sshna7

    It would help if Obama would literally face the nation from the Oval office explaining what he thinks might be the problem. He could say to America that he was truly born in America that he can produce the vault certificate. Or he could have someone from the Dept of Vital Statistics talk to the nation explaing why the Hawaiian certificate of birth is authentic.
    There are things Obama could do to put this thing to rest. But to think that millions of Americans are wrong and he is right is absurd.
    It will not go away because he is outnumbered. Sooner or later something is going to give that will satisfy the birthers. This is simply a universal law that will prevail for the birthers.

  • Anonymous

    Wait! That’s just a certificate of live birth! That’s not a REAL birth certificate! Why can’t he show a long-form one? He’s hiding something! We have to get to the trut…. hahahah ah, sorry. I can’t even do it for a few seconds without breaking into laughter over how stupid it sounds.

    How many times can a group of people be told, by the GOVERNOR of the state in question even, it’s a legal document, before they believe it? All I know is, I’m going to go WAY over-the-top asking for proof-of-birth from Romney, etc.- when they show something, it just won’t be good enough, darn it.

  • Clancy

    I once read that, by the standards established by the birthers, something like 65-75% of natural-born American citizens would not qualify to be POTUS. This is because most Americans “only” have a Certificate of Live Birth, which is exactly the same thing as a Birth Certificate.

    For the record, I only have a Certificate of Live Birth from the County of Los Angeles in California. There were no announcements of my arrival made in the local papers, so I don’t even have that going for me. My parents failed to keep the keepsake “hospital record,” so I’ve no doctor’s signature either. Of course, I am a white man, so I’m pretty sure no one will give a rat’s ass.

  • Roger Smith

    Maybe the most amazing irony is that, according to the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 (well before Obama was even born), anyone who is born to even one parent who is a U.S. citizen (as his mother was) is a U.S. citizen from birth, no matter where that person is born: see Title 8, U.S.C. 1401(g) (which corresponds to INA 301[g]) —

    “The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth: … (g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States [etc., plus some residency requirements for the citizen parent, all of which Obama's mother amply fulfilled since she had lived in the U.S. for her whole life before Barack was born].”

    So, because Obama’s mother was a u.S. citizen, it doesn’t matter whether he was born in the U.S., or in Kenya, or on the planet Mars; he’s a natural born U.S. citizen and thus eligible for the presidency. He and his team should have trotted out this legislation long ago, and put the matter to rest (to satisfy any doubts, suspicions, or conspiracy theories), but regardless, it should be made more public knowledge now.

  • TJ Iglesias

    Excuse me, it states, “CERTIFICATION OF LIVE BIRTH” and as I said, is identical to Obama’s. No one has ever tried to tell me I was born elsewhere.

  • TJ Iglesias

    My birth certificate (certified by the state of New York) also says “Certificate of Live Birth” on the top (nothing else) and is in fact almost identical to Obama’s.

  • http://twitter.com/BoomerJack Jack M. Boardman

    One simply may not dissuade a conspiracy theorist with facts… facts are part of the conspiracy. “It’s a ‘CERTIFICATION of Live BIRTH’ NOT A birth certificate!” Trump and others declare as if the terms don’t mean PRECISELY THE SAME THING!

  • http://twitter.com/marabout40 Dionne J.

    We won’t get past it until the media feel they’ve milked this nontroversy for all it’s worth.