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Originally posted by IamCorrect
It would be rather difficult for Obama to claim he doesn't have a long form birth certificate at this point after MSNBC claims to have interviewed the former Director of the Health Department, Ms. Fukino, and that she claims to have personally viewed and verified the long-form certificate:
Originally posted by Flatfish
It's the Ears! Maybe birthers just hate people with big ears.
Originally posted by robyn
reply to post by Sinnthia
I think you "doth protest too much".
Where there's smoke there's fire.
Originally posted by jibeho
I'll play along... Even though Obama is NOT Jewish.
This certificate issued in the Jewish faith is similar to that of a Baptism certificate. Which is an acceptable form of ID to prove citizenship to obtain a US passport.
Can you please provide some backup for this claim that it is a legal form of ID and can be used to obtain a passport?
So far I can find no evidence that a circumcision certificate is a valid LEGAL ID. Thanks. The list you posted does not seem to say anything about them.
edit on 16-4-2011 by Sinnthia because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by Sinnthia
Is there a Long Form BC on file in Hawaii or not??
Simple yes or no please..
Originally posted by jibeho
Obama is NOT Jewish so this element of the bill is just as irrelevant as your thread.
I don't think any of us can actually answer that question for certain.
Originally posted by backinblack
Didn't the mayor and the health official or someone say they had physically seen it??
“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.
"I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...."
Originally posted by Frontkjemper
Point of this thread is?
Originally posted by jibeho
is just as irrelevant as your thread.
Strawman... No one ever argued the President, whoever he may be, didn’t have to be vetted.
Originally posted by adifferentbreed
However, I can't believe the number of people that think the president doesn't have to be vetted properly.......no proof he ever was.
Perhaps if you didn’t create special standards for Obama, which you didn’t apply to any other President or candidate, maybe people wouldn’t suspect the birther motives are based on racist feelings.
If holding someone up to their promise makes one racist, count me in.
Originally posted by adifferentbreed
I can't believe the number of people that think the president doesn't have to be vetted properly.
Originally posted by aptness
Perhaps if you didn’t create special standards for Obama, which you didn’t apply to any other President or candidate, maybe people wouldn’t suspect the birther motives are based on racist feelings.
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by Sinnthia
Is there a Long Form BC on file in Hawaii or not??
Simple yes or no please..
As the top Hawaiian official in charge of state health records in 2008, when the issue of Obama's birth first arose, Fukino said she thought she had put the matter to rest. Contacted by NBC, Fukino expanded on previous public statements and made two key points when asked about Trump's recent comments.
The first is that the original so-called "long form" birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a "record of live birth" — absolutely exists, located in a bound volume in a file cabinet on the first floor of the state Department of Health. Fukimo said she has personally inspected it — twice. The first time was in late October 2008, during the closing days of the presidential campaign, when the communications director for the state's then Republican governor, Linda Lingle (who appointed Fukino) asked if she could make a public statement in response to claims then circulating on the Internet that Obama was actually born in Kenya.
Before she would do so, Fukino said, she wanted to inspect the files — and did so, taking with her the state official in charge of vital records. She found the original birth record, properly numbered, half typed and half handwritten, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama, located in the files. She then put out a public statement asserting to the document's validity. She later put out another public statement in July 2009 — after reviewing the original birth record a second time.
Story: Trump: I have ‘real doubts' Obama was born in U.S.
"It is real, and no amount of saying it is not, is going to change that," Fukino said. Moreover, she added, her boss at the time, Lingle — who was backing John McCain for president — would presumably have to be in on any cover up since Fukino made her public comment at the governor's office's request. "Why would a Republican governor — who was stumping for the other guy — hold out on a big secret?" she asked.
Her second point — one she made repeatedly in the interview — is that the shorter, computer generated "certification of live birth" that was obtained by the Obama campaign in 2007 and has since been publicly released is the standard document that anybody requesting their birth certificate from the state of Hawaii would receive from the health department.
The document was distributed to the Obama campaign in 2007 after Obama, at the request of a campaign official, personally signed a Hawaii birth certificate request form downloaded on the Internet, according to a former campaign official who asked for anonymity. (Obama was "testy" when asked to sign the form but did so anyway to put the issue to rest, the former campaign official said. The White House has dismissed all questions about the president's birth as "fictional nonsense.")
The certification that the campaign received back —which shows that Obama was born in Honolulu at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961 — was based on the content of the original document in state files, Fukino said.
"What he got, everybody got," said Fukino. "He put out exactly what everybody gets when they ask for a birth certificate."
Hawaiian officials say that the certification is, in fact, only one piece of abundant evidence of Obama's birth in Hawaii. Joshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii attorney general's office, noted that a public index of vital records, available for inspection in a bound volume at the Health Department's Office of Health Status Monitoring, lists a male child named "Obama II, Barack Hussein" as having been born in the state.
In addition, as Factcheck.org and other media organizations have repeatedly pointed out, both of Honolulu's newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961, and the Honolulu Star Bulletin, on Aug. 14, 1961, both ran birth announcements listing Obama's birth on Aug. 4 of that year.
Even Fukino accepts that her comments are not likely to end the matter for the die-hard birthers. Trump and other skeptics have questioned why the original birth certificate has not been released.
But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general's office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of "vital records," including an original "record of live birth" — even to the individual whose birth it records.
"It's a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody," he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted to inspect his birth record, Wisch said.
But if he or anybody else wanted a copy of their birth records, they would be told to fill out the appropriate state form and receive back the same computer generated "certification of live birth" form that everybody else gets — which is exactly what Obama did four years ago.
The caption beneath the picture read, `Now you know why no birth certificate.`"