Let’s see how the federal judge in Mississippi rules.
Again, PDF’s are scanned images for exhibition purposes. The original is in a safe in the state Registrar’s office in Honolulu. If anyone wants to see the original and inspect it, they can do so either under a court order from a judge or via a congressional subpoena from the Chairman of a Congressinal Committee. Congressional subpoenas have the force of court orders.
“You know, during the campaign of 2008, I was actually in the mainland campaigning for Sen. McCain. This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue. And I think it’s, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this. ... It’s been established. He was born here.”—(former) Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI)
Trouble is...
they didn’t issue a statement that Obama was born at Kapiolani.
they didn’t issue a statement that Obama was born in Hawaii., only that the records (plural) “verify” (claim) that he was.
when asked point-blank to verify the facts as true, state registrar Alvin Onaka would not. He is the only one authorized to verify anything and must verify submitted facts if he can.
this contradicts her earlier statement that Obama’s records were treated no differently than anybody else’s.
Abercrombie had a month-long “investigation” to try to find Obama’s BC and claimed in public that something was “actually written down” but that it was going to cause a problem with Obama’s re-election efforts; when his friend probed him over that bizarre statement Abercrombie told him privately that the investigation had even gone to the hospitals and could find nothing that would prove a Hawaii birth. Abercrombie also shared that he had NOT seen Obama in Hawaii unti T-ball age - contradicting his very public statements that he was there when Obama was born and saw him with his parents at social events with the infant.