Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., is managing some damage control after an Arizona newspaper erroneously reported that he was considering a lawsuit to challenge the natural-born citizenship of President Barack Obama. In fact, Franks says in a statement that he did consider a lawsuit last year when the question about Obama’s eligibility was first raised. But Franks’ own research into the matter convinced him that Obama was born in Hawaii and always was eligible to be president:
“…the fact that we found [the evidence that Pres. Obama is a natural-born, American citizen] made it impossible for me in good conscience to go into a big lawsuit.”
Franks explains the flap started when a reporter for the Mohave Daily News misinterpreted his comments at a local town hall meeting. Franks doesn’t beat up the reporter for this “honest mistake” and gives the reporter credit for writing a follow-up story explaining his actual position.
However, the original story was picked up instantly across the nation by news sites and political blogs, in part because the conspiracy theorists known as “birthers” refuse to go away. Politico’s version was one of its top 5 stories on Monday because of the novelty of a member of Congress suggesting that the current president should have been barred by the Constitution from running for election.
But Franks says it’s false, all false. Franks might be “terrified” by Obama’s policies, but he no longer doubts that Obama is a red-blooded American.
Of course, this doesn’t explain why Franks couldn’t communicate his views clearly last week when confronted with a “birther” question, or why he believes Obama still needs to produce a different birth certificate.
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Why Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., believes Obama still needs to produce a different birth certificate?
Certification of Live Birth (COLB) for Barack Hussein Obama was deliberately altered. It is a crude forgery, according to experts who have analyzed the document and other investigators who insist the President is covering up the truth and has never released either a long or short version of his real vault copy birth certificate.
Name calling American people Birthers is only part of the cover up and the carnival of conspiracy. Only Obama can end the controversy about his eligibility.
As the previous commenter uses the on-screen “accurate” and frequently comments on Tribune stories claiming to correct or clarify information with outside sources, I think it’s only reasonable to expect that provide names and links to these so-called forgery experts who have examined the Obama certificate in-person and can claim it’s fake. Otherwise, there’s no simply no reason to consider what he says here.
The Mohave newspaper has to feel foolish, Franks was one of the Republicans ambushed by some blog writer, and right there on tape on MSNBC, Franks stated that Obama was a US citizen.
No qualified expert has ever said that Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery. The birthers did find one expert who said that an on-line image of a birth certificate is not adequate for judging its authenticity (which is a red herring, because no one argues otherwise). Factcheck.org has physically examined the birth certificate and it is real. The Hawaii Department of Health, which issued it, has also stated on numerous occasions that the document was in fact issued by the state and is accurate. The evidence is clear, undeniable, and a non-issue. Congressman Franks deserves what he’s getting right now because he stoked the fires of this idiotic theory rather than putting it to rest once it came up at his town hall.
According to the Mohave Daily News, at town hall meeting Saturday, August 23rd, at a Kingman church in Kingman, Arizona, U.S. Rep. Trent Franks told the town hall audience that there is conflicting evidence as to whether the president was born in the United States. According to the report, the Republican congressman called on Obama to produce his birth certificate and threatened to sue the president over the issue.
http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2009/08/23/news/top_story/top1.txt .
According to The Huffington Post , at a health care town hall meeting in Kingman, the weekend of August 23rd, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said he might file a lawsuit to have the president release his birth certificate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/24/gop-rep-trent-franks-cons_n_267096.html?page=8 . And http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107784.
The names and links to the experts who have analyzed crude forgery of the Certification of Live Birth (COLB) for Barack Hussein Obama? Or better yet, the names and links of the ones that did the forgery? As CNN Lou Dobbs has said on CNN TV, the indisputable fact is that Obama has not released his real vault copy birth certificate.