Now Hawaii officials are saying that all birth certificates were destroyed in 2001. But on October 31, 2008, this contrary statement-
“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record. Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.”
O.K. So he was adopted and became a citizen of Indonesia...Found that his foriegn student status was helpful in admissions and grant money to Occidental College and never bothered to become a U.S. citizen again...(Contrary to what slick thought, the U.S. doesn’t recognize dual citizenship)
I think BoBo screwed-up BIG time...
It doesn’t matter if the state of Hawaii actually destroyed those paper documents. They would have all been scanned into the state’s computers, so that exact digital facsimiles could be created later, at will.
The CNN exec who first made this claim didn’t think it all the way through, before throwing up that ridiculous cover for Obama.
He’s essentially claiming that if you were born in Hawaii, that you can no longer obtain a copy of your long form birth certificate, but can only obtain a Certification of Live Birth. This is as stupid a statement as I’ve ever heard any left-wingnut make.
On top of all that, there’s been no statement from the Hawaiian state government corroborating this report. Not that I’ve seen, anyway.