He was born in Hawaii

I was extra super-happy that Barack Obama became our President elect because I too, live in a outer suburb of Chicago. Hometown guy makes good. :) Hey, I'm not from here originally but how long do you have to live somewhere before it becomes home? Regardless, Obama and I happened to show up to the Chicago suburbs about the same time, the second part of the 1980's.

Coverage of Obama started in the greater Chicago area before it went national. I remember him back to 2003, paid attention to his rising star, and the name was familiar before then as he was a community activist. So there is absolutely an adopted home-town son feel. One could sense that from watching the sea of faces in Grant Park on that fantastically mild Lake Michigan Chicago November 4 election night.

But Barack Obama as you most probably know, is not "of" Chicago originally. He was born in Hawaii to an 18 y.o. mother living with both she and her parents and growing up in several far-flung places.

This morning I picked up the first section of the newly redesigned and made smaller (staff and actual-size-holding-it)  Chicago Tribune and I found near the end of a perfectly good section a full-page "unelect Obama" advert-open letter to Obama.

Such bullshite this organization spews.

At first, the advert's condescending tone to President-elect Obama irritated me but it was more. If they could have they would have called him out as "boy."

In a nutshell: They are fanatics as well as flat-out wrong.

They frame their argument around Barack's place of birth.

If his mom had been 19 instead of 18 at his birth, they 'd not even have a starting point about his citizenship. However she was 18 and the laws on the books at that time state that the baby, if he were to be born outside the US to a non-US father--but an 18 and younger mother then no American citizenship for the baby. The kid would have to be naturalized--then non-eligible to be a US president.

However, as the Tribune in it's reporting of facts capacity pointed out, this  argument is moot because Barack Obama was born (a couple years after me) in Hawaii in an American family. I know for a fact that Hawaii was a US state when he was born as I was born the year it got the prize-1959.

Please, group of people who are afraid of Barack Obama in the White House, Why do you think you can keep him out when the Republicans couldn't? Do you not honestly realize that they would have nailed him on this if they could've? They couldn't and you won't because Barack Obama was born in the USA and is in every way American.

So bugger off.

You say that you can "only afford" to advertise in a newspaper representing his city? That is so funny to me.

Suit contesting Barack Obama's citizenship heads to U.S. Supreme Court Friday

Justices will decide whether to consider the case

By James Janega

Tribune reporter

December 4, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama's election.

The meeting of justices will coincide with a vigil by the filer's supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation's highest court.

The suit originally sought to stay the election, and was filed on behalf of Leo Donofrio against New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells.

Legal experts say the appeal has little chance of succeeding, despite appearing on the court's schedule. Legal records show it is only the tip of an iceberg of nationwide efforts seeking to derail Obama's election over accusations that he either wasn't born a U.S. citizen or that he later renounced his citizenship in Indonesia.

The Obama campaign has maintained that he was born in Hawaii, has an authentic birth certificate, and is a "natural-born" U.S. citizen. Hawaiian officials agree.

Among those filing lawsuits is Alan Keyes, who lost to Obama in the 2004 Illinois Senate race. Keyes' suit seeks to halt certification of votes in California. Another suit by a Kentucky man seeks to have a federal judge review Obama's original birth certificate, which Hawaiian officials say is locked in a state vault.

Other suits have been filed by Andy Martin, whose case was dismissed in Hawaii, and by an Ohio man whose case also was dismissed. Five more suits, all later dismissed, were filed in Hawaii by a person who is currently suing the "Peoples Association of Human, Animals Conceived God/s and Religions, John McCain [and] USA Govt." The plaintiff previously sought to sue Wikipedia and "All News Media."