NASCAR has new connection to Obama's birth certificate

NASCAR has new connection to Obama’s birth certificate

The latest spot in America where drivers are confronted with the
query "Where is the Birth Certificate?" is near the home of the
famed NASCAR
superspeedway in Talledega, Ala.

Posted next to Interstate
20, near Exit 185, the billboard
raises the unresolved issue of President Obama's eligibility to occupy
the Oval Office.

Billboard near
Talledega, Ala.

President
Obama has insisted his "citizenship" should not be questioned. But a
recent CBS-New York Times poll revealed that only 58 percent of
Americans think he was born in the U.S.

Much of the skepticism likely can be attributed to the billboard
campaign launched a little over a year ago by WND Editor and Chief
Executive Officer Joseph Farah that aims to post the question in as
many locations as possible.

Another billboard recently was rented near Bethel, Pa.

Billboard near Bethel, Pa.

Farah says the campaign has changed his life.

"A year ago I was still getting regular invitations to be on
cable TV shows and talk about the issues of the day," Farah explained.
"The minute I was labeled a 'birther,' I became radioactive – just like
Lou Dobbs."

Route 78 billboard in Pennsylvania

State legislatures now, however, are considering laws that would
require documentation of eligibility, the state of Hawaii is working on a
way to legally avoid answering public requests for information about
the president, Congress has pending a proposal to demand documentation
of eligibility from presidential candidates, and lawsuits alleging Obama
isn't eligible remain active.

The level of awareness is growing dramatically even though, Farah
said, "the establishment media" are in lockstep on the issue.

"There's no denying it," says Farah. "No matter how hard my
colleagues try to make the public forget about this issue, no matter how
hard they attempt to ridicule anyone who wants to see the proof, no
matter how much they demean even decorated military officers who take
their own oaths seriously, this issue will not go away. It's going to be
around in 2012. It may even be the defining issue in 2012."

Just weeks after a new
billboard appeared in Atlanta, Rep. Mark O. Hatfield of the Georgia
Legislature introduced a bill to require state officials to ensure only
constitutionally eligible presidential candidates can get on ballots in
the state beginning in 2012.

The Arizona House adopted a similar proposal before the plan was
shut down by a political maneuver in the state Senate. Other similar
legislation is being considered in a number of other states.

"Can you imagine the impact of several states adopting this kind
of legislation before the next presidential election?" Farah said. "It's
almost an inevitability at this point. Obama is going to have to reveal
the documents he has stubbornly refused to reveal to the American
people, in spite of the polls. If he doesn't, he will be forfeiting
electoral votes in those states. I wouldn't be surprised if Obama
decided not to run for re-election. I honestly don't think he will ever
produce a long-form birth certificate. I think he has something serious
to hide."

'Where's the
Birth Certificate?' billboard, in Atlanta

Farah said he could not have pulled off the campaign without the
support of WND's visitors. The cost of
the billboards has been offset by donations – and Farah says he wants
to step up the campaign because it's winning.

"I'm quite sure based on our own polls that if people were asked
whether they would like to see Obama release his birth certificate, more
than half the country would say 'yes' – and all the other personal
papers he has refused to disclose," Farah said.

Farah said the billboards have had a lot to do with changing
popular opinion – even if the media don't get it.

"People simply shouldn't have to conjecture about where they
think their president was born," he says. "It ought to be a matter of public record – and it clearly is
not."

Aside from the billboard campaign, WND
has devoted more investigative reporting to the issue of eligibility
than "all other media outlets combined," said Farah.

The billboard campaign was rejected by three major billboard
companies all owned by major media outlets – CBS, Clear Channel and
Lamar.

"What I need Americans to understand is that this billboard
campaign is working," said Farah. "There is no shortage of billboards
available to us. The only
thing there's a shortage of is the money to erect them. We need to raise
tens of thousands of dollars a month just to keep them in place."

"The impact of the billboards is magnified by local television
and talk-radio shows in every market they enter," said Farah. "It's not
just the billboard. It's the earned media that comes along with it. It's
astounding. We have turned millions of people around on this issue with
the billboards. It's just that simple."

"Where's the Birth Certificate?" billboard near
the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles

Farah also has:

produced a
video documentary primer on the issue called "A Question of
Eligibility";

produced
a 40-page special report on the subject;

manufactured
yard and rally signs to bring attention to the topic;

pledged
to donate at least $15,000 to any hospital in Hawaii or anywhere else
that provides proof Obama was born there and given you an opportunity to
raise the amount;

created
a line of T-shirts you can wear to appearances by the president to
raise visibility of the issue;

created
a fund to which you can donate to further the kind of investigative
reporting into this matter only this company has performed over the last
two years;

launched
a line of postcards you can use to keep the issue alive;

distributed
thousands of bumper stickers asking, "Where's the birth certificate?";

and,
perhaps most notably, gathered more than 500,000 names on a petition
demanding any and all controlling legal authorities in this matter take
appropriate action to see the requirements of the Constitution of the
United States are followed.

"There are all kinds of things we need to do right now to get our
country back on track, but I can think of nothing more important than
for us to see that our Constitution is observed, followed, adhered to
and honored, especially when it comes to such simple, straightforward
matters as the eligibility of the president of the United States," said
Farah. "Please
help me bring this matter to a head right now."

See
birth-certificate signs around the country.

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you contributed to the "Where's the birth certificate?" billboard
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