Long-time readers to my site will recall my taking The Politico to task with their take of the “birthers” — a pejorative intended to label those who question the President’s eligibility as being “fringe” or “inciteful”. Yesterday and today, two more articles were written about the eligibility saga, one from a story about a co-sponsor of Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-FL) HR1503, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, and another by a TownHall.com commentator, John Hawkins; the former is sympathetic to the issue, the latter is against it. I intend to once again correct the record by inserting my own commentary as appropriate.
Worth the read. I did not post the whole thing because it would be a formatting chore. And the author has done the work already.
No doubt about it:
If a judge ever rules that a state has the right and duty to require a presidential candidate to ATTACH/STAPLE his birth certificate to his application in order to run in a states' presidential primary and to have his name on a states’ presidential ballot for Nov. 2012, Obama will fight the judge's ruling with everything he has.
1. Obama knows that once a judge requires a presidential candidate to provide any type of birth certificate—even a short form like the Hawaii COLB-—a pandora’s box of political disaster could be opened against him.
2. For instance, as many of us found out for the first time this 2008 presidential campaign, presidential candidates must sign a routine eligibility form in most states in which the candidate declares/affirms/verifies that he is eligible to run for President of the United States.
3.NOTE: We voters have 1 to 5 days to challenge the candidate's information on that routine form, so we must be extra alert and ready at a moment's notice to challenge Obama's presidential application as soon as Obama signs his application in each state during the 2011-2012 presidential campaign.
At the very least, we must challenge Obama to provide verified documents, like a verified birth certificate, that he was even born in the United States.
4. Consider this: What do you think Obama will do if he has to answer challenges to his primary ballot application form in state after state?
5. Do you really think that he will simply respond to every challenge in a nice way, or, is it more realistic to think that Obama will send his gang of high-priced lawyers to fight the challenges?
6. Think about this: What do you think Obama will do this coming 2012 presidential campaign if many states require that a presidential candidate ATTACH/STAPLE a copy of his birth certificate to his routine application form, even if it is just a short form COLB birth certificate like the one from Hawaii?
7. I bet Obama will send his many high-priced lawyers to challenge the requirement that a presidential candidate must provide ANY type of birth certificate to get his name on a primary presidential ballot or on a 2012 presidential ballot.
8. My point is this: Obama does not want the public to examine or touch any form of his Hawaii birth certificate in any way whatsoever, not the short form COLB we see on the internet, and not especially the long form, the one with the doctor's name and the birth hospital name on it.
9.Why will Obama put up a vicious fight to stop states from requiring presidential candidates to ATTACH/STAPLE a valid birth certificate to their routine application forms?
10. The reason is that Obama knows that once the COLB Hawaii birth certificate leaps from a computer monitor screen into the hands of the public where the public can touch it and examine it as long as it wishes, he could be in a lot of political and legal trouble, because he knows that the public will examine it inch by inch to make sure it is as genuine as Obama claims, and there will be nothing Obama and his camp could do about it.
11. In my opinion, the last thing Obama wants is for the public to touch and examine his short form COLB birth certificate up close and under a microscope, even if it is one sent directly to each state by the Hawaii government.
12. Right now, as long his birth certificate is safely on the internet and not where the public can touch it and examine it, Obama is controlling everything, because all the public can see is a birth certificate on its computer screen. It can't touch it or examine it in person to make sure it is what Obama claims it is: A genuine birth certificate from Hawaii.
13. But once a birth certificate is ATTACHED/STAPLED to Obama’s primary presidential application form, it becomes part of the public record. It also will be a birth certificate that comes directly from and verified by the Hawaii government, not a birth certificate that comes from or is supplied by the Obama camp.
14. Many of us have heard this statement: A bird in the hand is worth two(2) in the bush.
15. Let me offer my version of the statement above as it applies to this Obama birth certificate issue: An Obama Hawaii birth certificate in the hand is worth two or two hundred Obama birth certificates on the internet.
16. Again, Obama is smart enough to know that once the public gets its hands on the short form Hawaii COLB, it could lead to political disaster, because a judge might just say to Obama: “You already gave Hawaii permission to release your short form COLB birth certificate so that you could ATTACH/STAPLE it to your eligibility form in each state, so I don't understand why you can't take that extra step and give Hawaii permission to release your long form birth certificate, the one with the doctor's and birth hospital's names on it.”