Please people..it is time to wake-up and do your homework! Go to
Citizen wells and see what was going on back in the fall of ALL the lawsuits against Mr.Obamanationover all this! Yes he is this! He is a trojan horse in this country to destory it and it started with him telling lies about his citizenship. It is bigger than what people thinks. He went to the bildeberger meeting before the elections. this foretold also of the turnout of who would be president! BUT>> this is ALL TRUE about Mr. Obamantion.. When found guilty yes he should go to prison! I have NO respect for this man. I respect the office but none for him. America is in trouble as a nation! We have been sold out for a one world govt. Clinton started it with Nafta and our jobs went to China and other countries..Ever heard of the Illuminati....do your homework..we have a govt. behind our govt. that pulls all the strings. Read also about the North American Union! .and the financial collaspe of our govt and money is coming...Mr.Obamantion is a puppet for the new World Order! listen to Alex Jones..a jounalist that knows what is going on and for Bible prophecy go to endtime.com and listen to the radio program. the main thing is are americans really ready for what we are about to face? What are they going to do when our money collaspes and our military are here to take us to jail because we believe in the constitution,, which Mr. Obamanation has already broke by running for president and getting elected and paying to have it hid! Everything that is done in secret will be shouted from the rooftops. I would just love to see the people's faces that voted for this man when the Whole truth hits the t.v. and they see that his lies has caught up with him along with all the people that were decieved by this man with his enticing words....but they wanted someone to keep them up because America has become Lazy, someone to pay their bills..where if you don't work you can have a free ride off of someone that does work! HOGWASH! Do people actually think the govt is going to support their life style? They believed a lie! Sounded good to them for a season but now WAKE-UP the lullaby has ended and now it is time to face reality! Please I am neither a republican nor a democrat....so I cannot be labeled...I am a person that believes in God-Jesus and country! A Patriotic American that believes that belief in our Creator--working hard..to earn what you get in life along with our constitution has made this country Great! We were founded upon Judeo/Christian principles.....yes I know the freedom of religion....but even our govt...was set up on this foundation....with the 10 commandments...that is how we know that we are doing wrong! The problem is that people from other countries and also the liberals want to CHANGE America when it was a great nation for what it stood for!
Bringing their pagan religions into this country and changing us and we are the BAD people now "the terrorists," when we should be the one that is changing them. Without God being the framework that has held this nation together...well you can see what is happening! Man has become so educated that they have become their own god and they are destroying this nation! Could go on but it is time to end!
Have a Beautiful Day and may the truth set you free this day!

IT'S A HOAX, People, a Hoax, do some research....

April Fake

We contacted The Associated Press just to confirm what should be obvious, that no such news story ever appeared on the news agency's wires. Jack Stokes, The AP's manager of media relations, gave us this statement:

AP: The story purported to be from The Associated Press on April 1 is fake.

Furthermore, the group that the fake story credits with gaining release of the supposed "smoking gun" documents is also a fake. Searches of news accounts and Internet sites showed no trace of any group called "Americans for Freedom of Information," until recently. On May 6 such a group did appear, but only as a joke to make fun of anyone who had fallen for the April Fool's Day gag. An anonymous blogger set up a site calling itself "Americans for Freedom of Information: We Do Not Exist." Its first entry begins:

"Americans for Freedom of Information" May 6: We are the Americans for Freedom of Information. We are a fictitious group of individuals; i.e. we do not exist. And yet, for a nonexistent organization we wield great power and knowledge! O Yea, Verily. OK, actually, not verily at all. Anti-verily, as a matter of an utter lack of fact.

Where Truth Ends

Not all versions of this email carry the telltale April 1 dateline, however. And more than a month after it first appeared we continue to get questions about whether it is true, and to see postings on conservative blogs that seem to accept its claims as fact. But not only is the message a hoax, its key claims are as false as they can be.

Among the few claims that are true in this message is that from fall 1979 through spring 1981 Obama attended Occidental College, a small (currently 1,825 students, according to its Web site) school in Los Angeles. After that he transferred to Columbia University in New York City to finish his undergraduate education. The photo here is from his application to Occidental.

It's also true that Obama was on scholarship while at Occidental, according to articles in the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe.

But that's about where the truth ends. For those who might believe that even a fake news story quoting a non-existent organization might still have some validity, we offer these facts:

No Fulbright: Contrary to what this email 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 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 PhD 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 email:

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 December 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 email message, and will update this item should we receive a reply.

-Brooks Jackson

Sources

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The claim is that Obama received a Fulbright scholarship for foreign students, proving that he is not a U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be president. Supposedly this was reported by The Associated Press. But the claim is false and the story is a hoax.

April Fake

We contacted The Associated Press just to confirm what should be obvious, that no such news story ever appeared on the news agency's wires. Jack Stokes, The AP's manager of media relations, gave us this statement:

AP: The story purported to be from The Associated Press on April 1 is fake.

Furthermore, the group that the fake story credits with gaining release of the supposed "smoking gun" documents is also a fake. Searches of news accounts and Internet sites showed no trace of any group called "Americans for Freedom of Information," until recently. On May 6 such a group did appear, but only as a joke to make fun of anyone who had fallen for the April Fool's Day gag. An anonymous blogger set up a site calling itself "Americans for Freedom of Information: We Do Not Exist." Its first entry begins:

"Americans for Freedom of Information" May 6: We are the Americans for Freedom of Information. We are a fictitious group of individuals; i.e. we do not exist. And yet, for a nonexistent organization we wield great power and knowledge! O Yea, Verily. OK, actually, not verily at all. Anti-verily, as a matter of an utter lack of fact.

Where Truth Ends

Not all versions of this email carry the telltale April 1 dateline, however. And more than a month after it first appeared we continue to get questions about whether it is true, and to see postings on conservative blogs that seem to accept its claims as fact. But not only is the message a hoax, its key claims are as false as they can be.

Among the few claims that are true in this message is that from fall 1979 through spring 1981 Obama attended Occidental College, a small (currently 1,825 students, according to its Web site) school in Los Angeles. After that he transferred to Columbia University in New York City to finish his undergraduate education. The photo here is from his application to Occidental.

It's also true that Obama was on scholarship while at Occidental, according to articles in the Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe.

But that's about where the truth ends. For those who might believe that even a fake news story quoting a non-existent organization might still have some validity, we offer these facts:

No Fulbright: Contrary to what this email 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 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 PhD 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 email:

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 December 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 email message, and will update this item should we receive a reply.

-Brooks Jackson

Sources

Copyright © 2003 - 2009, Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania