One of the reasons this story will never die is that they keep trotting out bold-faced, easily-refuted lies like this:
“The Obama campaign decided to release Obama’s certificate of live birth — a document commonly issued by hospitals that includes basic information about a child’s birth for record keeping. The information is then sent to the Office of Vital Statistics or the State Register to create an official, or long-form, birth certificate.”
That is very far from an accurate description of the certificate of live birth. It’s actually the precise opposite of correct. The official long-form birth certificate is the original document filed at the time of birth signed by the doctor. The Registrar then codes the information into a database, and the certificate of live birth is the document that you get when they print out the records in the database at any time in the future. The problem is that the original long-form cannot be retroactively changed, but the data can and often is changed, for example, in an adoption.
The Registrar then codes the information into a database,””’
Clarify what you mean by a ‘database’.
Obama was born in 1961. I do NOT remember computers & ‘databases’ verbage then.