Is Obama’s presidency threatened?
• The New Delhi Statesman Rajinder PuriEven while US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pursues her five-day
visit to India, an event has occurred in the USA that could conceivably
snowball into a major controversy to cut short President Obama’s
tenure.
Article 2, Section 1 of the US Constitution states: “No person except a
US born citizen… shall be eligible to the office of President.”
During the last US campaign a controversy arose about Obama’s
birthplace. Critics were unsure if he was born in the USA or Kenya.
Obama’s campaign committee released a Hawaiian birth certificate on 13
June, 2008. Sceptics alleged that it had signs of forgery.
Obama maintained he was born in Hawaii. One hospital, Honolulu ‘s
Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children, claims it received a
letter from the President declaring his birth there. But White House
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refused to authenticate the letter. For
nearly six months the hospital proudly declared Obama was born at its
facility to
