Did Barack Obama register for the draft ?

That is an excellent question. I don't have an answer for it, but I'm going to search for it. Thanks...

In the US, the draft is administered by a government agency called the Selective Service System. Under current law, every male between the ages of 18 and 26 who is living in the United States must register with the Selective Service - whether or not he is a US citizen. Women are NOT required to register, according to the SSS.

The SSS provides a chart showing who must register at their website www.sss.gov.

The Federal Citizen Information Center, a US government service, provides information about the Military Draft Time To Register. According to them, all male US citizens between the ages of 18 and 26 must register unless they are institutionalized in a hospital or prison.

The names of men who do not register are passed over to the US Department of Justice for possible prosecution. Failing to register may also jeopardize student loans, scholarships/financial aid, and even the ability to obtain a driver's license.

I don't know how an individual citizen would find out if someone registered or not.

Edit: Chronos, I think you are mistaken about what you saw.

BHO was born in 1961 and On July 2, 1980, President Carter issued Presidential Proclamation 4771 and re-instated the requirement that young men register with the Selective Service System.[71] At that time it was required that all males, born on or after January 1, 1960, register with the Selective Service System. Those now in this category are male U.S. citizens and male immigrant non-citizens between the ages of 18 and 25, who are required to register within 30 days of their 18th birthdays. BHO would have been within the required age limit

The situation with Clinton vs Obama is different. When Clinton was 18 there was an active draft. However by the time Obama turned 18 there was no draft. He had to register for selective service in case the draft was ever reinstated, as did everyone his age after 1980. I remember seeing a copy of that registration on line and it was dated 1980.

He had to register witih the Selective Service in order to get financial aid. That is NOT the draft, but merely a registration issue. So, problem solved.

You are correct there is no record of BHO registering with the Selective

Service, However a strange circumstance has surfaced, where a redacted

form of offical document has him as doing so. More than likely from the

same guys that did his birth certificate,

Since President-elect Obama received student loans when he was in college, and since no man who has failed to register for the selective service is eligible to receive student loans, we may deduce that he did indeed register for selective service when he was required to.

And for the record, President Clinton did not "run from the draft" - his selective service lottery number was NEVER SELECTED.

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I think you have to register when you are between 18-25 but it is not really registering for a draft. We have not had a draft for over 35 years so he would only have been about 10 or 12 at the time.

Yes, he registered for selective service. The United States has not had the draft for several decades.

Begging for a star is just pitiful.