by Clifford F. Thies

The latest proof of President Obama's qualification as a "natural born citizen" reminds us of the sad reality that the issue just kind of touches and yet misses by miles. I am speaking of his coping with his abandonment by his natural father and his rejection of his mother.

Along with the release of a photocopy of his "long form" certificate of live birth, we have the release of his father's immigration file.

In the birth certificate, filed on August 8, 1961, his mother says that her child, who is named Barack Hussein Obama II, was born on August 4th. She also states that the father of her son is Barack Hussein Obama, an African, who is 25 years old, and a student.

In the immigration file, we find out that the Barack Hussein Obama "Sr." variously claims to be married to two women, one back in Keyna and another in Hawaii, or to not be married at all, to have and to not have children, but never to have Barack Hussein Obama II as a child, and to have and to not have worked in the United States.

As Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs Atlas Shrugs points out:

Stanley Ann Dunham could not have been so savvy as to know that BHO I was a Muslim polygamist. Yet clearly, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., was never divorced from his first wife in Kenya.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service suspected that the elder Obama’s marriage to Dunham was a sham, arranged strictly to secure immigration status for him. Despite the fact that BHO I had married Dunham, the government wasn’t buying it: An INS official wrote in 1961 that the agency should “make sure an investigation is conducted as to the bona-fide of the marriage.”

Specifically, in a certificate dated June 6, 1963, seeking an extension of his student visa, Obama "Sr." fails to mention his marital status, the name or names of any spouses, and the name or names of any children. He then signs the form certifying to the government of the United States that it is correct and complete.

In a certificate dated August 17, 1962, the Kenyan indicates that he is married, although he does not indicate the name or names of the women to whom he is married, and he lists one child, viz., Roy Obama, the President's half-brother.

In a certificate dated August 31, 1961, the Kenyan indicates that he is married, naming his spouse as Ann S. Dunham of Hawaii, after marking over whatever he first put into the box, and - voila! - not mentioning the names of any children. Going by the certificate of live birth, this was about four weeks after the birth of Barack Hussein Obama II.

Eventually, immigration rejected extension of the Kenyan's student visa. Barack Hussein Obama II would be raised first by his mother, during which time a decent Indonesian man who married his mother acted for a time as a stepfather. Later he was raised by his maternal grandparents.

You might think, based on his the races of his natural parents and on his upbringing, that he might consider himself biracial. But, no, as we all know, he claimed only to be black on his 2010 census form. As we all known, in Chicago, he attended a white-hating, Afro-centric church. As we all know, he reflexively blames the white person in any high profile altercation involving a white person and a black person.

As we here at LR discussed during the election campaign of 2008, this is just so obvious from a reading of his book, Dreams from my Father. Our President is working through some issues. In a country where most children, nowadays, are not raised in homes headed by their father, he is not so unusual. It is really such a sad predicament for our country and for so many of our children.