The initial short form COLB didn't list a Dr.. It most certainly didn't list Dr. West.
Many birthers formerly were crying that nobody knew who the Dr. was.
Now that the long form COLB lists a Dr.; now every birther is 100% sure it was Dr. West based upon the Snopes article.
The Snopes article had second hand remembered statement from Dr. West which would not at all be inconsistent with him being there at the Hospital for the birth but not the attending physician.
Prior to the release of 0bama’s long form COLB, the purported ‘gold standard’ of a Hawaii long form COLB was the Nordike twins - and the exact same information that is on what was formerly the birther ‘gold standard’ of what a long form COLB should look like - is now apparently not enough.
If the COLB is an accurate and true reproduction of the original document, it DOES preclude the possibility that the birth took place anywhere other than where it says the place of birth was - Honolulu - unless you are saying they committed fraud on his behalf by listing a birth place that was inaccurate. Are you?
It is unfortunate that you disregarded the previous information. The State of Hawaii policies and habit is to issue an official birth certificate using the Kapiolani Hospital as the place of exxamination long after the birth actually occurred in some other locale. The other locale of the actual birth can be at home in Honolulu, Hawaii. It can be at a maternity hospital or home for unwed mothers in Vancouver, British columbia, Canada. It can be at the Coastline Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya. In each case the State of Hawaii will still issue an Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth whenever a family member submits a request for the certificate while merely claiming the parents of the child met the residency and/or citizenship qualifications of the sate of Hawaii.
In the event that the claim of residency and/or place of birth were false and fraudulent, the State of Hawaii would still have issued the Certificate of Live Birth without questioning the fraudulent claims provided in the registration of the birth. So, there was nothing to prevent Madelyn Dunham from filing for her daughter and using fraudulent information. The informaton on the Obama Certificate of Live Birth tends to stronlgy indicate his birth did not occur at the Kapiolani Hospital, and it does stronly indicate it occurred elsewhere inside Hawaii or outside Hawaii.
The Dr. West versus Dr. Sinclair issue is problematical, because it raises more questions than it answers. For one example, if Obama was born outside of the Kapiolani Hospital and Dr. West happened to be the physician attendant at the birth, it may require explanation yet remain possible Dr. Sinclair was called upon to make an examination of the child at Kapilani Hospital days after birth for the purpose of completing the application for the Certificate of Live Birth. There are also a number of other posssible explanatoins for both physicians becoming involved in the birth and paperwork, while the birth did not occur at the hospital. Consequently, the latest Obama Certificate of Live Birth is inherently incapable of precluding the possibility of the birth occuring somewhere other than the Kapiolani hospital appearing on the document.
A child can be born anyplace in the world, and the State of Hawaii will issue an official Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth for that child, if the family claims the parents met the Hawaiian requirements for residency and/or citizenship. The State of Hawaii does not consider such a Certificate of Live Birth to be fraudulent, even though the actual non-Hawaiian place of birth does not appear on the Certificate of Live Birth.