Probably not.
I wrote back in July asking if he would release his SS Registration card. Given his apparent serious attraction to radicalism in his college days, it seemed a relevant question to ask.
Needless to say I received no answer.
A few weeks later Bob Owens (AKA Confederate Yankee) claimed to have debunked the rumor and boastfully put the issue to rest.
It is a rumor that the Obama campaign has chosen to ignore despite numerous requests, and it is a rumor that even Snopes couldn’t seem to confirm or deny definitively.
After contacting the Selective Service System for an answer several times since late June, Pajamas Media obtained official confirmation from the Selective Service System via email that Barack Obama did indeed register for the Selective Service as required by law, and is eligible to run for the presidency.
Mr. Owens,
Barack Hussein Obama registered at a post office in Hawaii. The effective registration date was September 4, 1980.
His registration number is 61-1125539-1.
Daniel Amon
Public Affairs SpecialistIt is difficult to determine why no one had confirmed Obama’s Selective Service registration until now. The mainstream media may have had no interest in pursuing the story for a multitude of valid reasons. New media sources aligned with the Obama campaign may have had no interest in conducting an investigation that may serve to impede their selected candidate, and new media opponents may have simply found confirmation of his registration too difficult to obtain — some have suggested that they had contacted the Selective Service, only to be told they would have to file a request under the Freedom of Information Act, which rather notoriously may take months to complete. Perhaps others found it more useful to keep the rumor alive than put it to rest. But the conclusive answer is now known.
Sorry Bob but this debunks absolutely nothing and actually raises a fairly simple question.
Apparently Bob wasn’t curious enough to ask the obvious question.
How could Obama register in Hawaii on Sept 4, 1980 when he was at Occidental College in California? Classes started that year on August 24th.
I read CY regularly and generally appreciate Bob’s take but this was a lazy effort at best. To accept the word of a bottom level Public Affairs Specialist with no supporting documentation is at best naive but to call this an “investigation” is amateurish and declaring it “conclusive” is delusional.
The actual Selective Service registration document does in fact require a FOIA filing and Debbie Schlussel thinks she has it.
She has a fairly good breakdown of the discrepancies and there are many, many of them.
We don’t know who created this obviously fraudulent document but it seems pretty clear that Obama did not register for Selective Service.
This element, like his birth issue have several troubling aspects.
For one thing… It’s almost TOO easy!
What ever else Obama and his cronies might be, this stupid seems unlikely. Arrogant, hell yeah, but these issues are too easily refuted.
I sure don’t know. Is he an arrogant nitwit who thinks these trivial issues don’t matter, or is he simply waiting for some ‘moment’ to address them?
The dude is riding on the crest of a wave. A wave that will wash over this stuff like a tsunami.
Prove he’s not born here, or that he broke the law and the lawsuits will still be going on after he’s long dead.
He is the President Elect after all.
I went to the site, and as usual, the see-no evils were over there spewing about the nasty right wingers clinging…Let me run up against any one of the Obama ass kissers and it’ll get ugly.
Ponsdorf,
Don’t forget the left’s attempt at “spicing up” GWB’s record with fake memos about his time in the ANG. Don’t underestimate how dumb they can be when they are trying to “fool the rubes”.
That said… I agree… With the MSM in his back pocket, this will bounce off of him like an airsoft BB hitting a M1A1 Abrams.
Sad.
While in basic training, I received several threatening letters from Selective Service. My Drill Sergeants were highly amused and read them aloud, while I did push ups…
Failing to register for Selective Service is not necessarily a bar to employment in the Federal Government. The Selective Service can grant a waiver, which allows the Agency that you are applying to to determine if you can still considered you for employment. This is done on a case by case basis and is only granted if there is a plausible reason for you to not have registered.
I know this because I’m one of the dumb asses that didn’t register. I was in the Navy from 1978 to 1984. When I joined, there was no requirement for registering with Selective Service. When I got out, there was. I asked my ships Career Counciler about registering, and he told me that I was already registered. I, like the idiot I was (and which my wife will surely tell you that I still am), believed him. I did not find out how wrong he was until I applied for my GI Bill benefits in 1988, by which time I was too old to register. Of course. Selective Service had apparently run into this problem before and granted me the waiver, which allowed me to get the benefits (it was the Contributary GI Bill, so that was all of $8100 over 3 years, but still a big help).
I’m not sure when the Selective Service Registration requirements started back up again, and I rather doubt it could be applied to Obama. I might have been more generous to him if he had served in the military.