[jamese777]

Unless the incorrectly-quoted paraphrase is exactly what she wants people to think she said. She essentially issued a stataement without issuing a statement. This gives her plausible deniability when the repercussions come her way.

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I fail to see the “plausible deniability” in her other statement to the St. Petersburg Times: “Its a valid state of Hawaii birth certificate.”
That sounds like “going on the record” to me.

[Uncle Chip]

It’s called “hearsay” — second hand — especially with that newspaper.

[MHGinTN]

Your source is about as reliable as Jon Klein of CNN who made up a story that ALL paper documents in HI records were destroyed when the electronic files were created. Klein even had Lou Dobbs mouth the sycophantic LIE on air.

[Seizethecarp]

Okubo backed off what the St. Petersburg Times falsely framed her to have said in an update to the very same story, as I already posted to you here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2458720/posts?page=203

Here is what Politifact actually said about what Okubo said at the link you provided:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/

Okubo says she got a copy of her own birth certificate last year and it is identical to the Obama one we received.

And about the copy we e-mailed her for verification? “When we looked at that image you guys sent us, our registrar, he thought he could see pieces of the embossed image through it.”

Still, she acknowledges: “I don't know that it's possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the image on the site represents.”