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His mother was a US citizen, doesn't matter where he was born. And he will stay black.
By now, you know the story of the so-called "Birther Movement" -- conspiracy theorists who bullheadedly insist without a shred of proof that Obama is a Kenyan-born foreigner who is barred by the Constitution from even running for president, let alone being the nation's CEO and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Never mind the fact that Obama was born on August 4, 1961 -- two years after Hawaii became America's 50th state -- in Honolulu's Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital and that the document exists to prove it. Obama's birth certificate was issued by the Hawaii Department of Health, which confirmed last week that it has the document -- copies of which have been circulating on the Internet for months -- on file.
Never mind the fact that both of Honolulu's major newspapers, the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin, published announcements about the president's birth to "Mr. & Mrs. Barack H. Obama [of] 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy." in Honolulu, in their August 13 and August 14, 1961 editions, respectively.
Never mind the fact that a Honolulu resident, Eleanor Nordyke, gave birth to twin girls in the same hospital the day after Obama was born -- and whose daughters attended the same Honolulu school Obama attended -- and likely knew the boy who would grow up to become America's first African-American president.
Never mind the fact that certified copies of the president's birth certificate can be ordered through the Hawaii Department of Health's Online Vital Records Ordering System, albeit on a strictly limited basis in accordance with the state's privacy law.
Never mind the fact that the original Obama birth certificate itself was viewed, verified as authentic, photographed and posted online last November by the nonpartisan Web site, FactCheck.org, which declared that the document "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false."
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Single payer universal health care is coming.
PROGRESSIVES4PENNSYLVANIA TO PRESENT HEALTHCARE PACKAGE TO LANCASTER CITY COUNCIL
August 4
On Tuesday August 11, 2009, the next public meeting of the Lancaster City Council, Progressives for Pennsylvania and Healthcare4ALLPA.org have been invited to make a presentation in support of Pennsylvania House Resolution 1660/Senate Bill 400.
The City Council is considering a resolution supporting these bills which, if passed, will make Pennsylvania the first state to enact single-payer healthcare - universal, comprehensive healthcare for all.
The Philadelphia City Council passed a similar resolution unanimously in February, and the Pittsburgh City Council passed it last week.
Municipalities, struggling to balance their budgets without raising taxes and/or cutting services, are beginning to realize that single-payer healthcare delivers the double benefit of providing healthcare to everyone while substantially reducing the costs they now sustain in covering their own employees with private insurance company policies.
The presentation will be made on August 11, 2009, starting at 7:30 PM at the Lancaster City Council Public Meeting held in Southern Market Center - 100 S. Queen St., Lancaster, PA, 17602.
http://www.healthcare4allpa.org/home.php
Last Friday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich proposed an amendment to H.R. 676 to let states create single-payer healthcare systems. The Kucinich Amendment would let individual states create single-payer healthcare systems even if Congress fails to create a nationwide single-payer system.
The House Committee on Education and Labor passed the Kucinich amendment by a vote of 25 to 19. Republicans voting 13 to 5 in favor of the amendment. Democrats voted 14 nays and 12 yeas.
Among the nays was Joe Sestak who is running for Arlen Specter's U.S. senate seat. Pennsylvania is regarded by many as the one most likely states to lead the way in passing single-payer legislation.
There are at least ten states which have active single payer efforts in their legislatures. They are California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. The amendment mandates a single payer state will receive the right to waive the application of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which has in the past been used to nullify efforts to expand state or local government health care.
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