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The persistent question of Barack Obama's citizenship.(Inside Track)

The New American

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It has been alleged that presidential aspirant Barack Obama is ineligible to become president because, it is claimed, he was not born in the United States--but rather born in Kenya to a Kenyan father, making him a Kenyan citizen. The story has gained credence for several reasons:

* His paternal grandmother in Kenya has reportedly been audiotaped speaking to an Anabaptist reverend and bishop saying that she was in the delivery room when Obama was born. The reverend and bishop have both signed affidavits claiming they have the tape and will testify in court.

* Obama has refused to release an official birth certificate. Instead, he has released a "certification of live birth," which not only shows evidence of tampering but wouldn't normally be considered a legal document anyway.

* Obama will not release his medical records or his records from Occidental or Harvard College. It is speculated that he will not release these records because they indicate he is not a citizen and may, in fact, have applied for some type of U.S. government aid for foreign students.

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These are the accusations that lifelong Democrat and former Democratic candidate for office Philip Berg has made in the case Philip J. Berg v. Barack Obama, et al. Berg, a former deputy attorney general of Pennsylvania, further alleges that even if Obama were born in the United States, when Obama's mother was remarried, she moved to Indonesia with her new husband and renounced her and Barack's U.S. citizenship. The basis for this claim is the fact that the government of Indonesia during the four years Obama was enrolled in school there required that one had to be a citizen of ...

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