Spokesbabe Okubo used what must be an ‘official’ validation procedure. She said Obama’s alleged COLB looked just like her own. Later, when it was pointed out that no seal nor registrar’s signature could be found anywhere on the jpg, Okubo admitted she couldn’t tell if it was real or not. Like a lot of faithers, you glazed right past the part. Since that debacle, the HI DOH has never come back and said it’s real.
You have confused and combined various internet web site reports.
Janice Okubo was referring specifically to the photoshopped image of Obama’s COLB that was on the Daily Kos and Fight the Smears web sites and she was NOT referring to the actual hard copies of Obama’s COLB that the Chicago Tribune, Factcheck.org and the St. Petersburg Times received for review. Okubo could not verify one side of a photoshopped image, however she COULD and DID verify hard copies of the Obama COLB.
You can read the St. Petersburg Times report in its entirety for yourself here (from June 27, 2008):
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/
And OVER A YEAR LATER, here is what Janice Okubo had to say (From July 17, 2009): and I quote Ms. Okubo, “Its crazy, said Janice Okubo, director of communications for the Hawaii Department of Health. ‘I don’t think anything is ever going to satisfy them.’
Okubo, who said that she gets weekly questions from Obama ‘birthers’ that are ‘more like threats’ explained that the certificate of live birth reproduced by Obama’s campaign SHOULD HAVE DEBUNKED THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES. ‘If you were born in Bali, for example, Okubo explained, ‘you could get a certificate get a certificate from the state of Hawaii saying you were born in Bali. You could not get a certificate saying you were born in Honolulu. The state has to verify a fact like that for it to appear on the certificate. But it’s become very clear that it doesn’t matter what I say. The people who are questioning this bring up all these implausible scenarios. What if the physician lied? What if the state lied? It’s just become an urban legend at this point.’”
http://washingtonindependent.com/51489/birther-movement-picks-up-steam
Now does that sound like someone who is retracting her “valid Hawaii birth certificate” statement? I don’t think so.