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Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by lee anoma
It's not simply that people know so little about his family past, it's that they don't BELIEVE what he said about it.
Why should we believe what Obama tells us??
Heck, no one believes what Bush says..
Facts are what we need and Obama has his covered by National Security...
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by archasama
The hospitals come into play, because Obama only has a "short-form" birth certificate on file. It is acceptable for Driver's Licenses and Social Security and 99% of things you would do in a normal life. If you lose it, you pay a few bucks and get a new certified copy of that certificate.
The problem is that for many government jobs that require security clearance, such as FBI or Secret Service, they require the more detailed "long-form" certificate. This certificate has never existed for Obama, because at the time of his birth it was common for people to bring in a few documents from a home birth and get the short-form. The long-form only existed if you were delivered by a Doctor in a Hospital, which apparently Obama was not. Without that long-form certificate, there needs to be some major corroborating evidence to support the short-form. Since his father was not a U.S. citizen, and he can't prove he was born inside the United States, he does not qualify as a "natural born citizen" and he is ineligible to be president.
Currently, the Secret Service guys protecting Obama had a much more thorough investigation of their backgrounds and loyalties than the guy they are protecting! Sad and ironic.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Arbitrageur
The real problem is that ONLY a short form exists. There was no long form and there is no hospital record, because he was not born at a hospital. This was common for the time. Many children were born outside of hospitals, and it only took a little bit of information sent into the DOH to get the short-form completed.
The only way to get the long form was to be born at a Hawaiian hospital.
So, we can never have any closure to this issue, it is impossible. He could have been born a block away from the hospital, or he could have been born in Kenya, the documentation would be the same. That is precisely why the short-form is unacceptable.
hawaii.gov...
“Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.
Originally posted by Southern Guardian
Originally posted by sweetliberty
Obama campaigned on open government and transparency,
And you believed him? Should you be laughing?