Email: This Is Certainly Interesting...

This Is Certainly Interesting...

[note - all mistakes below are original to text of email]

From: XXXXXXX@qwestoffice.net
To: "XXXXXX@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 4:27 PM

Subject: This is certainly interesting.....

This situation appears to be getting more and more intense......Where there is smoke there is fire

Meet the Soetoros

Indonesia
Left to Right: Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, baby Maya Soetoro, and 9 year old Barry Soetoro

The above registration document of Barack Obama under the name of Barry Soetoro was made available on 24 January 2009 by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta , Indonesia . His step-father, Lolo Soetora completed this registration as follows:

Name:  Barry Soetoro
Religion:  Islam
Nationality:  Indonesian

So how did little Indonesaian, Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A.  Barack Obama) get around the issue of nationality to become president of the United States?

Did he lie?

In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has released copies of President Obama's college transcripts fro Occidental College.

This transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school.

This transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California

The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.

To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign ncitizenship!

This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking.

Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for United States citizenship, this is looking pretty grim.

The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama's legitimacy and qualification to serve as president..

When reached for comment Obama smiled but refused comment on the issue.

Britain 's Daily Mail carried the story in a front-page article titled, "Obama Eligibility Questioned."

In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey .

This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualification to serve as president.

Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending.

This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records.

Mr Kreep indicated that the investigation is still on-going but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr Holder has refused to comment on the matter (he was after all appointed by Obama to serve as attorney general!).

Let other folks know this news the media won't embrace!

Neither one of the Obama pair (Barack or Michelle) had time to get a real job and work for a pay check. We the people paid the balance on their education and their travel!

Response

Hey, you don't believe this stuff, do you?  These conspiracy theories are just ridiculous and it is depressing to see that this sort of dishonesty has become mainstream among conservatives.  Note that the picture of President Obama's registration document in your email lists Honolulu as his place of birth.

Most of this email is taken from a purported Associated Press article.  According to the Associated Press, "The story purported to be from The Associated Press on April 1 is fake."   It seems as though the entire email was an April Fools joke. 

This is what the respected FactCheck.org had to say about this email:

No Fulbright: Contrary to what this e-mail claims, Obama's scholarship wasn't a Fulbright. It's true that many foreign students come to the U.S. under the Fulbright program, sponsored by the United States Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. But Fulbrights for foreign students are primarily intended for graduate students studying for masters' degrees or Ph.D. degrees, not for college freshmen and sophomores.

No "Soetoro": Another false claim is that Obama attended and received financial aid "under the name Barry Soetoro," using the surname of his Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro. The college's Director of Communications Jim Tranquada told us there's no record of that. He told us in an e-mail:  

Occidental spokesman Tranquada: Contemporary public documents, such as the 1979-80 freshman 'Lookbook' published at the beginning of President Obama's first year at Occidental, list him as Barack Obama. All of the Occidental alumni I have spoken to from that era (1979-81) who knew him, knew him as Barry Obama.

No Records: It's not even true that Occidental has released Obama's student records, as claimed in the message. Nor have courts ordered any such records to be made public. According to the college spokesman: 

Occidental spokesman Tranquada: To date, all of the litigation filed regarding President Obama's student records at Occidental has been rejected by the courts. Occidental has not released his transcripts or his student file.

Furthermore there's no trace of the supposed Daily Mail story headlined "Obama Eligibility Questioned," either on the newspaper's Web site or in the Nexis database of stories published by the paper. The claim that the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case brought by Leo Donofrio is also false; the high court in fact refused to grant a hearing in that case back on Dec. 8, 2008.

There is a group called the "United States Justice Foundation," and it does list a Gary Kreep as its executive director. But we find no report of any study of Obama's legal spending on its Web site, or any mention of turning information over to Attorney General Eric Holder. We've asked Kreep about this in an e-mail message, and will update this item should we receive a reply.

http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/was-obama-born-in-the-usa/

Please, check into these things before forwarding them because even if you yourself do not believe it and just think that it is amusing, those that you send it to might actually believe it.

Hope to talk to you soon.