Posted on 09/26/2009 5:49:00 PM PDT by DavidFarrar
I know it to be common knowledge that Maya Soetoro, Obama’s half-sister, once stated that Barack was born in Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. But recently I have been debating this point with a fellow blogger at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution under at article by Jay Bookman, entitled: Birthers aren’t conservative, they’re just nutty, who maintains that, in fact, Maya Soetoro didn't actual say that. It was actually written by a student, Bennett Guira, who wrote it as part of his Obama bio assay, and the quote was later picked up and erronisously attributed to Maya Soetoro. The source she quotes can be found by clicking here.
And then later stated it was a different hospoital. See above post. How reliable is this hearsay in light of the fat that she mentions two different hospitals?
Not strange at all, since any hospital that did so would face a whopping fine.
Ever since the HIPAA privacy laws, hospitals and medical personnel can't release such information. This holds whether the patient is Joe Blow or a celebrity, and whether the patient is alive or dead.
- be fined not more than $50,000, imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both;
- if the offense is committed under false pretenses, be fined not more than $100,000, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both; and
- if the offense is committed with intent to sell, transfer, or use individually identifiable health information for commercial advantage, personal gain, or malicious harm, be fined not more than $250,000, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both
I hate to see inaccurate information as it doesn't help the discussion. A child with U.S. citizenship can't lose it as a result of his parent's actions. The State Department has made that very clear - a parent can't renounce on behalf of a minor. And if Indonesian law required renunciation, that would have no effect on U.S. law.
HIPAA law forbids it. Here's an article from World Net Daily explaining it.
I would think that someone would have an actual paper form of the newspaper.
Surely someone has one in their baby book or among their death records, or perhaps as a wedding souvenir.
Michael Medved reminds me of the hymn “Amazing Grace”.
He is blind and **refuses** to see. Hopefully, when the truth is finally shoved up his nose, he will feel the pain of a guilty conscience.
Okay. I stand corrected on this point.
Hey! we are making progress, undoubted progress.
ex animo
davidfarrar
I am not sure if Maya Soctoro-Ng has ever specifically retracted this particular article, but she has retracted the name of the medical center Barack was born in. She has been saying for a long time now that it was not Queen’s Medical Center but Kapiolani Medical Center.
As to this specific article, if you will look at the information that is in “quotation marks”, you will see the first paragraph is not a direct quote from Maya Soctoro-Ng. Thus written, the information that Obama was born in Queen’s Medical Center came from the author of the article and not directly from Maya Soctoro-Ng, herself.
ex animo
davidfrarar
There is no public evidence to suggest that he ever did that - however there is evidence that clearly suggests he was legally adopted and there is also evidence to suggest that obama attended college on the basis of being a “foreign student”
And there is further evidence that when he traveled to Pakistan as a college student that it would likely had to have been on a passport issued by a nation other than the US
I would just add that as someone that was born overseas (with dual citizenship) and having to officially assert my US citizenship at age 18, I do have some first hand knowledge of the process
So unless you are an attorney specializing in citizenship law I will go with what I know to be true
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As to this specific article, if you will look at the information that is in “quotation marks”, you will see the first paragraph is not a direct quote from Maya Soctoro-Ng. Thus written, the information that Obama was born in Queen’s Medical Center came from the author of the article and not directly from Maya Soctoro-Ng, herself. Working many years as a nom de plume staff writer for newspapers around the country, I'm intimately familiar with the AP Style Handbook and guidelines for attribution. Regardless of the existence or absence of quotation marks, the author derived the information from the subject of the interview: Maya (or perhaps even Obama). If you look at the two-pages of this article, there are only TWO sources referenced in this story: - Maya Soetoro IN FACT, if you look at the LAST paragraph of the November 2004 story, Obama is QUOTED directly. A search for the sentence, "I truly believe that there is another tradition in this country that says we're all connected somehow," shows NO other references on Google, Bing or AllTheWeb (sans this original article). That indicates to me that the author did NOT lift the quote from another source. Rather, the author interviewed Obama on the phone from Hawaii. It's even possible that Obama HIMSELF may be source of Queen's Medical Center being his hospital of birth — that is, until perhaps he and his campaign realized that Kapiolani Medical Center would be more difficult for skeptics to disprove as the campaign rolled on. There is no reasonable explanation as to why after nearly FIVE years, there has been no retraction from the author or Maya. This story was one of the FIRST to be written after Obama won his Senate seat in November 2004. Furthermore, IF a sudden retraction comes out NOW — as Obama’s popularity is tumbling and eligibility suits are gaining traction — many of us are FAR more likely to think that the author of the 2004 article had been pressured by an Obama operative. I would insist on seeing/hearing the journalist's original notes of the interview with Maya to believe otherwise. Many of us have been tracking the most recent bout revisionism that Obama and his supporters have been trying to conduct since July — scrubbing of the facts on the internet and elsewhere. There's about six that I've cataloged since approximately July 1 — I'm sure others here have tracked others. Many Obama supporters will come onto places like Free Republic, asking for “proof” like you're asking for now, only to then attempt to refute what is in BLACK AND WHITE. In fact - YOU are the 2nd or 3rd person in as many days to bring up THIS 2004 article about Maya — to then refute it in some way. Some Obama supporters have gone so far as to use our body of knowledge here as a means to isolate those inconsistencies that we have found, to then have supporters seemingly contact the author or newspaper, demanding a revision. I'm unsure if the words, “OR ELSE” had been added, but seeing Obama’s Chicago tactics in action, I wouldn't doubt if either incentive or intimidation has been used. |
I am not an immigration lawyer. I read the state department pages. If you are stipulating that 0bama was born abroad, that's one thing. If you are saying he was a citizen, and through living in Indonesia or being adopted would lose it or need to reassert it, especially for those living in the US prior to the 18th birthday, that doesn't square with what I've read. I also know the laws have changed, so your situation and that of someone today may be different. Any immigration lawyers around help us one way or the other?
there is also evidence to suggest that obama attended college on the basis of being a “foreign student”
I've heard speculation about that, but didn't realize someone had found evidence. What was found?
And there is further evidence that when he traveled to Pakistan as a college student that it would likely had to have been on a passport issued by a nation other than the US
Why not on a US passport? I remember when people were saying that US citizens couldn't travel to Pakistan during 1961, but that was contradicted by contemporaneous newspaper travel articles, and by a search of the State Dept travel advisory lists. (I can't remember who did the search, but it was posted on a thread months ago.)
No, but I have a spell checker. /s
What is ex animo?
Thanks
I was gonna comment but...
Thanks.
True, but if a mistake was made in this in-house newsletter, it may not have seemed to her like a big enough deal to require a public correction.
Uhhhhh.... BINGO pass go collect $200 and a Joker Tee.
I’ve looked up this information before, because I’ve read claims that Obama’s sister, and even Obama himself, have given conflicting stories about his birth hospital. From what I found out, it all stems from mistakes reporters have made, not Obama or his family. One was corrected, I believe, but others were not.
Or so he says. But he has been known to lie about issues of his ancestory, his parent's situtation, and so forth.
Only the birth certificate will confirm who his father was. Even a short form, a real paper document with seal and so forth, would tell us that, but not, for instance, where his father was born. If it does indeed show that BHO Sr was his father, then we'd need to see BHO's visa records to determine if he was a non-citizen, BOTH times he traveled to Hawaii, the first time in '59, the second and AFAIK, last time around '73, sometime near Christmas, when he met BHO Jr, possibly for the first time. For certain since Junior was a newborn.
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