Probably not.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Needless to say I received no answer.<\/p>\n
A few weeks later Bob Owens (AKA Confederate Yankee) claimed to have debunked <\/a>the rumor and boastfully put the issue to rest.<\/p>\n It is a rumor that the Obama campaign has chosen to ignore despite numerous requests, and it is a rumor that even Snopes couldn\u2019t seem to confirm or deny definitively.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Mr. Owens,<\/p>\n Barack Hussein Obama registered at a post office in Hawaii. The effective registration date was September 4, 1980.<\/p>\n His registration number is 61-1125539-1.<\/p>\n Daniel Amon It is difficult to determine why no one had confirmed Obama\u2019s 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 \u2014 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Sorry Bob but this debunks absolutely nothing and actually raises a fairly simple question.<\/p>\n Apparently Bob wasn\u2019t curious enough to ask the obvious question.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n I read CY regularly and generally appreciate Bob\u2019s 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 \u201cinvestigation\u201d is amateurish and declaring it \u201cconclusive\u201d is delusional.<\/p>\n The actual Selective Service registration document does in fact require a FOIA filing and Debbie Schlussel thinks she has it.<\/p>\n
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