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This video says that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen, and therefore ineligible to be president. There is a pending lawsuit here in Washington about this issue. Watch the video, which makes a compelling case that Obama is not cooperating with the court, which requires his birth certificate.

I tend to be skeptical that something of this magnitude would not have already been used against him by the Clinton or McCain campaigns. But, I don’t think it is completely impossible for Obama to have been born in Kenya, especially since that is what his Kenyan grandmother has said.

Obama’s website “Fight the Smears” addresses the issue, but not to the satisfaction of the lifelong Democrat lawyer who has filed the lawsuit. He argues that the Obama campaign has released a “certification of live birth” which is different from a more complete “birth certificate” released by the hospital that delivers someone. The document from Hawaii posted on the Obama website is not his birth certificate, according Phil Berg, the lawyer who filed the suit.

The most interesting part of the story is that the Obama website admits that Barack Obama had Kenyan citizenship until 1982. Weird.

For a different take on the question of Obama’s citizenship, check out FactCheck.org, which believes the “certification of live birth” to be sufficient to prove that Obama was born in Hawaii. The document they received from the campaign satisfies them that Obama is a natural born citizen of the U.S.

One final point on all of this. Obama went to Indonesia and attended school under the name Barry Soetoro. As a fellow blogger points out,

Indonesia, at the time Obama lived there and was deemed an Indonesian citizen, did not recognize dual citizenship, and neither did the US recognize dual citizenship with Indonesia.

Thus, whether he held dual citizenship with the US and Kenya, whether he was born in the US or Kenya, is irrelevant as the ONLY legitimate citizenship he held once his adopted father moved him to Indonesia was Indonesian. His US Citizenship would be forfeit.

Soetoro was his adopted father, and registered young Barry at the local school. He listed his faith as “Islam” and his nationality as “Indonesian.”

Before you liberals have a heart attack over this fact, please read this story in The Washington Post that says the same thing.

Obama’s mother, divorced from Obama’s father, married a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the family relocated to the country from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his stepfather.

I’d be interested to find out more about this before the election in a couple of weeks. I’m sure millions of Americans would also be interested to find out whether or not Obama lost his U.S. citizenship while in Indonesia, wherever he was born.

The bottom line here is that Obama has not been truthful on questions of his citizenship, faith and background, until pressed by reporters, bloggers or even lawsuits. There is still a lot we don’t know about Barack Obama, and I doubt CNN or MSNBC will be asking any questions this close to the election.