Beginning in 2007, as a result of his announcement that he would seek the presidency, many Americans questioned whether or not Obama met the Article II, Section 1, clause 5 requirement reserved by the Founders for the nation's chief executive given the abundance of varying life narratives as to his country of birth.
The applicable constitutional clause reads:
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
While some in the major media had reported over a number of years that Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia, at some point, the narrative of "born in Hawaii" emerged, a claim the "long-form" birth certificate image appeared to substantiate. However, almost immediately after its release, several experts in the field declared it a poorly-crafted forgery. More:
 | www.thepostemail.com "AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY DID COUGH UP THE TRUTH" by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 17, 2018) — On January 25, 2017, The Post & Email published an article recounting a 2012 Illinois ballot challenge to Barack Hussein Obama's presidential candidacy after the objector, Michael D. Jackson, pointed out to us that the "long-form" … | |
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