Donald Trump: I've got my birth certificate, where President Barack Obama's?

If you're going to run for President, IMO you forfeit much of your right to privacy. Frankly, I think your life should be an open book. I would see nothing wrong with having to agree to an FBI investigation similar to a security clearance procedure at an intelligence agency. That means birth certificate, medical records, anything ever published, transcripts from all schools available, interviews with anyone who has ever known them, etc.

The American people have the right to know exactly who they're electing. We've left the job up to the Fourth Estate, but they've shown themselves unwilling to do the job.

 

Those things aren't released to the public when someone needing a security clearance is investigated. I agree that Obama should have to provide whatever information is legally determined to be necessary to the relevant authorities. It doesn't have to be provided to any nutcase in the public though.

 

I thought sitting presidents were immune from lawsuits to keep people from trying to tie up all his time after being elected. If congress thinks he did something wrong they start impeachment and he has to answer to them right?

 

I didn't state my point clearly. I meant that a full background investigation be done on that person and then all reasonable information gets released. For example, the items Shooter listed.

 

I stand corrected.

Just out of curiousity... why does where he was born mean anything? All he has to be is a us born citizen... not that he was *born* in the US. If one of his parents was a US citizen that would do it wouldn't it?

 

Not that you matter, but why do you hate the Constitution so much?

 

That document states

Seriously... if my wife and I are on vacaction in Vancouver BC and she gives birth... should the child be exempted from running for president? That seems utterly stupid.

 

by "no other person", do you mean John McCain?

 

Arnold was *not* a Natural born US citizen... not because of where he was phsically born... but because his parents were not US Citizens. McCain wasn't born in US , but there is no question in my mind that is was a Natural Born US Citizen anyway... both his parents were... they just happened to be stationed overseas in the US Military.

 

Classic. You pick one item off the list and make fun of it, just for cheap laughs. Meanwhile, you ignore the larger issue at hand.

This is why you and other lefties can't be taken seriously. You're circling the wagons around Obama on an issue that you'd be attacking Bush for, if he were still in the Oval Office.

 

I wholeheartedly agree with Shooter's point. The electorate has the right to know everything about the person who wants to run for President; the job is too important to leave to an unknown entity. If someone doesn't want to reveal that information, then they don't have to run.

Would the country have been better off knowing that John Kennedy was addicted to pain killers and had an affair with an East German spy? What about Ronald Reagan suffering from Alzheimer's in his later years in office? Or Woodrow Wilson rendered incapable through strokes of fulfilling his office? I think we would have been. I couldn't give two shits about their desire for privacy. You give that up to become President.

In regards to kindergarten records, I don't care whether or not they got gold stars or if they had clean underwear, I would simply like to know where they went and what their teachers thought about the youngster and his or her parents/guardians.

 

Obama has the most mysterious past of anybody who has ever held the office of President. There are many, many questions about this guy, and yet he keeps stonewalling everybody who tries to find out more.

 

You know, he does have two autobiographies, one of which was written before he really thought he had any chance of one day becoming president. I mean, his first one he talks about smoking pot, racism, etc. He kind of come off as a loser in some ways in that book to me. It's not your typical self-congratulatory political screed. I thought it seemed like a pretty honest depiction of his childhood.

What did you think when you read it? (I'm assuming you read it since you are so curious about him.)