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Here's a certified copy of the original quote from Spokesbabe Okubo:

And, as Janice Okubo, director of communications for the Hawaii Department of Health, explains, no-one who was born abroad could get a certificate saying they were born in Hawaii.

"If you were born in Bali, for example," Ms Okubo told the Washington Independent, "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."

If one was to take a boat from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Mombasa, Kenya, then Bali, Indonsia, could be a port of call along the way. A pregnant Stanley Ann Dunham Obama may have given birth while stopped in Bali. Thus Spokesbabe Okubo may have been telling us that Obama's birth certificate SHOULD say he was born in Bali, but maybe the records were fudged to say Obama was born in Honolulu because the DOH couldn't verify Obama was born in Bali. This is why it is important for the HI DOH to release any and all records pertaining to Obama's birth.