Does Biden Cometh?

As I said in my last post, a Bloggers job is to be an observer and a commentator. Of course I have some discretion about my topics and I can try to avoid those which I don’t think “have legs”. One of those has been the “Birther” issue but earlier this week the topic took a new twist.

A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.

His attorney has confirmed that the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders. A hearing on the questions raised by Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook, an engineer who has said that he wants to serve his country in Afghanistan is scheduled for the summer.

"As an officer in the armed forces of the United States, it is my duty to gain clarification on any order we may believe illegal. With that said, if President Obama is found not to be a 'natural-born citizen,' he is not eligible to be commander-in-chief," he said only hours after the case was filed.

"Then any order coming out of the presidency or his chain of command is illegal. Should I deploy, I would essentially be following an illegal order. If I happened to be captured by the enemy in a foreign land, I would not be protected by the Geneva Convention”, he said.

Cook said without a legitimate president as commander-in-chief, members of the U.S. military in overseas actions could be determined to be "war criminals and subject to prosecution." He said the vast array of information about Obama that is not available to the public confirms to him "something is amiss."

"That and the fact the individual who is occupying the White House has not been entirely truthful with anybody," he said. "Every time anyone has made an inquiry, it has been either cast aside, it has been maligned, it has been laughed at or just dismissed summarily without further investigation.

"You know what. It would be so simple to solve. Just produce the long-form document, certificate of live birth," he said. His lawyer said she will attend the hearing to amend the temporary restraining order to an injunction because more members of the military have joined the cause.

She said there cannot be any harm to the president if he is legitimately holding office.

Obama has maintained he was born in Hawaii, and at least one hospital, Honolulu's Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children, claims it received a letter from the president declaring his birth there. The White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refused to confirm that the letter which was used by the hospital to solicit donations is, in fact, a real correspondence.

When doubts were raised about the authenticity of the letter because it was created with HTML computer code and had no presidential or White House seal, the hospital which for nearly six months proudly declared Obama was born at its facility commenced an active cover-up, hiding the White House letter from its original webpage and refusing to confirm such a letter actually exists.

It was also reported that two sources in the past week have cited Obama's birth in Kenya. Wikipedia also was found to have been reporting on Obama's birth in Kenya, before a series of scrubs placed his birth in Honolulu. And that came on the heels of several online information sites changing the president's supposed birthplace from one hospital in Hawaii to another, after World Net Daily broke the news of the letter said to be from the White House.

Complicating the situation is Obama's decision to spend sums estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars already to avoid releasing a state birth certificate that would put to rest all of the questions.

The "Certification of Live Birth" posted online and widely touted as "Obama's birth certificate" does not in any way prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same "short-form" document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii.

The true "long-form" birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii, but to date he has not permitted its release for public or press scrutiny.

Among the documentation not yet available for Obama includes his kindergarten records, his Punahou school records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records, his Columbia thesis, his Harvard Law School records, his Harvard Law Review articles, his scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, his passport, his medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.

Now, of course, everybody has their own take on this mess but, if you want my two cents worth; it simply doesn’t make any sense to spend what I suspect will wind up in the millions when the whole issue would go away by producing one document.

So I don't think he has it but make up your own mind but bear in mind that the alternative would be Uncle Joe Biden.