Friday, February 20, 2009

"Son Of This Soil"

"Son Of This Soil"

The claim that Obama's grandmother says that Obama was born in Kenya--and the continuing expenditure of six figures on legal fees to avoid presenting an original, long form birth certificate of Hawaii--has one additional curious twist. I just found this link to the Kenyan Parliamentary Debates series from last November. It's a congratulatory speech by member of the Parliament on Obama's election--with a most interesting phrase in it, at page 3276:
COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT BARRACK OBAMA

Hon. Members, as you may be aware, the people of the United States of America have just had a historic election where the son of this soil, Barrack Hussein Obama, has been elected the 44th President of the United States of America and the first African-American President in the history of that country, please join me in registering and sending this House's congratulations to the President-elect Obama for overcoming great odds to emerge victorious. [emphasis added]
Curious phrase that. Maybe the Chair just meant, "a descendant of Kenyans." But that's not the most obvious reading of it, is it? As I have said repeatedly, the idea that Obama wasn't born in the United States is pretty preposterous--except for how much work Obama and the DNC have put into avoiding the one simple step that would make all these lawsuits and questions disappear: produce the original long form birth certificate from Hawaii--not the one that Obama keeps showing, and that Hawaii will issue to people who were not born there, but were adopted there.

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