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One of my favorite comments was from Spokesbabe Okubo saying (and I’m paraphrasing) that if Obama was born in Bali, then his COLB would or SHOULD list Bali as the place of birth. This indicates that it’s possible Obama could have a Hawaiian birth certificate IF born abroad ... and it was an odd choice for what appears to be a random mention of a foreign place. Bali, as we know, is in Indonesia, a country where Obama lived as child, and a country where Obama was reported in one newspaper story to have been born. What might have been intended as ridicule could actually be a Freudian type of slip that reveals pertinent and useful information. Not saying that Okubo told us Obama was definitely born in Indonesia, but that he may have been born elsewhere. Maybe he legally amended his certificate to show Hawaii as the place of birth, even though it should list the other location instead of Hawaii??

Yeah, an interesting little admission that “stuff” happens and what is supposed to happen isn’t always what does happen. An admission that the documents can be wrong - which is the opposite of what she intended to say.

But you know what’s interesting, now that I think about it?

The HDOH has said they have no index of foreign births. It existed in 1981 and was required to be retained permanently - just like the original birth index from 1961 - but it, too, has disappeared from the face of the earth.

Really interesting in light of Okubo’s reference to somebody from Bali being able to have a Hawaii BC but the place of birth “should” still say Bali. I’d like to ask Okubo what birth index that BC would be under if that had happened before 1981, since they claim they don’t have an index to foreign births.

What might have been intended as ridicule could actually be a Freudian type of slip that reveals pertinent and useful information.

Or she could have been reading Eat, Pray, Love and Bali was on her mind.

One of my favorite comments was from Spokesbabe Okubo saying (and I’m paraphrasing) that if Obama was born in Bali, then his COLB would or SHOULD list Bali as the place of birth. This indicates that it’s possible Obama could have a Hawaiian birth certificate IF born abroad ... and it was an odd choice for what appears to be a random mention of a foreign place. Bali, as we know, is in Indonesia, a country where Obama lived as child, and a country where Obama was reported in one newspaper story to have been born. What might have been intended as ridicule could actually be a Freudian type of slip that reveals pertinent and useful information. Not saying that Okubo told us Obama was definitely born in Indonesia, but that he may have been born elsewhere. Maybe he legally amended his certificate to show Hawaii as the place of birth, even though it should list the other location instead of Hawaii?

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“If you were born in Bali, for example,” Okubo explained, “you could 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.”

http://washingtonindependent.com/51489/birther-movement-picks-up-steam