[TChad]

This thread is getting too pathetic.

The only reason the Dept. of Home lands doesn't accept the COLB is because it needs proof of ancestry, not just birth.

Then why aren't the parents of the applicant for the lease permitted to provide COLBs? Their ancestry is not in question.

You have presented no proof that COLBs always show the correct birth locations for children born to Hawaiian mothers abroad. You don't answer the question of why Obama has not provided the best available documentation of his birth, which is the long-form birth certificate or another document that underlies the COLB.

Anyone interested in this issue should start here.

I would love to be convinced that Obama was born in Hawaii, but your gratuitous assertions don't get me there.

[curiosity]

Then why aren't the parents of the applicant for the lease permitted to provide COLBs? Their ancestry is not in question.

Of course it is! If your parents don't have Hawaiian ancestry, then neither do you. Duh.

[curiosity]

You have presented no proof that COLBs always show the correct birth locations for children born to Hawaiian mothers abroad.

Are you seriously trying to argue that the state of Hawaii lies on its official documents?