With all of the vitriol and verbal terrorism coming out of the Left’s mouths over the last several weeks on such earth-shattering subjects such as whether Rush Limbaugh is allowed to buy an NFL team or whether pointing out the very red color of the latest health care charade, one subject has slipped under the radar recently. That being the legal status of the President to serve in office.

Fortunately for us, two unlikely sources, the AP and Obama himself, have taken up the cause, even if retroactively and so it rises up from the usual political muck again.

From The Post and Email blog site comes word that in 2004, an AP story claimed that Obama was a proud, self-declared natural-born citizen of Kenya.

To wit, from their site:

What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.

How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

The AP reporter stated the following:

“Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.”

This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.

As the author of the post notes, Google as usual, is trying its best to thwart efforts to find the 2004 AP story in question. As he says…

because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will find links which talk about it.

Thankfully, there is still a screenshot of the Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, dated June 27, 2004 that carries the headline and opening sentence of “Kenyan-born Obama all set for U.S. Senate”.

Certainly eyebrow-raising, if nothing else. As the Chinese curse goes, “May you live in interesting times”.

For more, including a chronological breakdown of the differing claims of birthplace from Obama and/or his campaigns, go to Post and Email blog site.

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