steven787 said:
"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." link I understand how you can see it that way, but you are misunderstanding the significance of this. With out any evidence to the contrary then all these theories mean nothing. I said before that Obama could have been born in another country (though, admittedly I do believe he was born here), I am saying it doesn't matter unless they can come up with something tangible to bring the birth certificate into question. Produce a foreign document. Everyone keeps saying that Hawaii allowed late registrations and foreign registrations... without sources, so here they are: http://hawaii.gov/health/vital-records/vital-records/hawnbirth.html "If there is no standard birth certificate on file, an applicant is required to submit documentary evidence of the birth facts necessary to support of the registration of the late certificate of birth." So without the proper documentation there would be no certificate. |
And to counter that point.......
the report does not say whether the birth certificate in the “record” is a Certificate of Live Birth or a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth
For births prior to 1972, a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth was the result of the uncorroborated testimony of one witness and was not generated by a hospital.
I'm glad that starting in 1972 Hawaii started to require an applicant to "submit documentary evidence of the birth facts necessary to support of the registration of the late certificate of birth".
I'd be surprised if the current Director of Health in Hawaii knew what the law was prior to 1972, which was changed 36 years ago. Hell, I'd bet he needs to consult legal staff for interpetation of current law in some cases.
If it turns out Obama only has a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth which implies he was "born at home" and is based on the uncorroborated testimony of one witness I think Obama may be in trouble. No one is going to beleive he was born in Hawaii but not in a hospitol.
This thread would be much more amusing if you'd all argue about Trig Palin's birth certificate instead. It's much more amusing. The hospital Palin says she was at doesn't have Trig on file. You can look him up on the web site and he's not there. I guess that means Trig was born in Kenya, and/or renounced his citizenship in Indonesia.
Born in an Igloo, it melted in the spring.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
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