reply to post by Sublime620
Right.
And when you couple that along with smuggling a baby back into the US to avoid a baby Obama being a "lowly" naturalized citizen it really invites
incredulity.
Also, given the fact that Obama has visited Pakistan, has had Pakistani acquaintances in the past, you just know that Homeland Security and any other
terrorist agency in the US has vetted Obama's credentials to the extreme. Are those agencies just sitting on significant information? Maybe. Maybe
they're sitting on a technicality that could go either way, depending on who looks at it. But I doubt if fraud were involved that those agencies
would sit quietly and be tight lipped about it. Unless, of course, there is some "wooooooooooo" and "booooooooooo" conspiracy underway.
The other thing is that Obama, by his own admission, did visit Pakistan in 1981. Apparently Pakistan was under "military rule" at the time. So
those traveling there with a US passport mostly likely wouldn't have been admitted passage. However, Obama visited Pakistan with a Pakistani friend
of his from college.
After visiting his family in Indonesia, Obama then traveled to Pakistan with his friend. And stayed with his friend's family for three weeks. Berg
claims that it would have been "impossible" for Obama to enter Pakistan with a US passport, and therefore would have had to use an Indonesian
passport. However, this ignores two other possible ways that Obama could have entered Pakistan.
Obama's friend was from a wealthy Pakistani family. The possibility exists that the Pakistani family arranged, or helped Obama arrange, to get a
tourist visa approved and have it waiting at the border of Pakistan when Obama arrived with his friend. Obama then entered Pakistan, the tourist visa
allowing him to stay there for three weeks in the care of the Pakistani family, who possibly vouched for the credibility of Obama not being a threat
to the military regime in power there.
To me, Obama getting a tourist visa is a lot more plausible than him touring Indonesia and Pakistan on an Indonesian passport after he turned 18 and
started college. Most likely Obama renewed his US citizenship upon turning 18, not having met in college the person from Pakistan who would become
his friend.
And, still that leaves one other scenario as to how Obama traveled to Pakistan. He simply did not renew his US citizenship immediately upon turning
18, but put it off for some reason. While in college he met his Pakistani friend. The friend invited Obama to visit Pakistan and stay with the
friend's family. As luck would have it, Obama still had an Indonesian passport. Traveled first to Indonesia, then to Pakistan where he visited for
three weeks, and renewed his US citizenship upon returning to the United States.
There may be some technical reasons why the last scenario may not have happened, or even the one prior. But the point is to show that there are other
possible explanations as to how Obama was able to travel to Pakistan. Which contrasts sharply to Berg's assertion that it was "impossible" for
Obama to do so without being in possession of an Indonesian passport.
[edit on 23-10-2008 by Areal51]