How the Media Lied about Obama’s Birth Records

AIM ^ | April 16, 2010 | Margaret Calhoun Hemenway

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During the 2008 Presidential campaign, "mainstream" media confused the public over whether Obama ever released any real proof of his claim to being born in Hawaii. The confusion continues. Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek magazine, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on February 20, 2009 that "The Obama campaign actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online."

But Alter lied, since "the Obama campaign" never "actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." Remarkably, no hospital in Hawaii yet lays definitive claim to be the birthplace of the sitting President.

.. On the FactCheck.org website, the claim is made that "FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate." They only saw and touched the COLB. So FactCheck.org lied about this as well.

Why would Factcheck.org tell so obvious a lie and endanger the site's reputation? In August 21, 2008, when questions about the COLB began to reach critical mass and threatened to enter the public discourse, the mostly pro-Obama TV and newspaper/magazine media needed cover for their collective decision to ignore questions about whether Obama met qualifications for the Presidency set forth in Article II Section I of the Constitution. .. FactCheck.org helped stifle the birth certificate debate.

Under Section 57 of the Territorial Public Health Statistics Act in the 1955 Revised Laws of Hawaii (in effect in 1961), a mailed-in form (without mention of a hospital, doctor, or midwife) signed by only one of Obama's parents (who could have been out of the country or whose signature could have been forged by a grandparent) or grandparents, would be enough to set up a birth record at the Department of Vital Statistics. This meager birth record would then automatically generate newspaper announcements, and also, a computer-generated COLB in 2008.

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[edge919]

I’m still looking for where in the U.S. Constitution it says that a president has to be born in a hospital?

Good deflection. This detail isn't queried because of a Constitutional requirement, but out of commons sense, specifically on the basis of how vital records are certified. A hospital birth would allow for the signature of a reputable witness. Of course, I'm sure you know this already, which is why you chose a lame deflection. You know that Obama has no reputable witnesses to his birth ... at least not in the United States.

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[jamese777]

Good deflection. This detail isn’t queried because of a Constitutional requirement, but out of commons sense, specifically on the basis of how vital records are certified. A hospital birth would allow for the signature of a reputable witness. Of course, I’m sure you know this already, which is why you chose a lame deflection. You know that Obama has no reputable witnesses to his birth ... at least not in the United States.

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Good irrelevancies.

All Obama needs and has ever needed is an official document from the state of Hawaii which states that he is over 35 years of age and that he was born in the US. He has that document and its been verified by the state of Hawaii.
A short form Hawaii Certification of Live Birth is good enough to get a US Passport and its good enough to be handed the nuclear football with the launch codes to every US nuclear missile in the US arsenal when a person is sworn in as president.

“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health VERIFYING Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”

[edge919]

All Obama needs and has ever needed is an official document from the state of Hawaii which states that he is over 35 years of age and that he was born in the US.

It's too bad he hasn't shown that he has one.

He has that document and its been verified by the state of Hawaii.

No, the alleged document he has shown has never been verified by the state.

A short form Hawaii Certification of Live Birth is good enough to get a US Passport and its good enough to be handed the nuclear football with the launch codes to every US nuclear missile in the US arsenal when a person is sworn in as president.

A legitimate short form might be good enough for those things. Obama's is not. Start dealing with known truths and not wishful thinking or blind faith.

[jamese777]

It’s too bad he hasn’t shown that he has one.

No, the alleged document he has shown has never been verified by the state.

A legitimate short form might be good enough for those things. Obama’s is not. Start dealing with known truths and not wishful thinking or blind faith.

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Just because Dr. Fukino’s verification statement isn’t good enough for you doesn’t mean that it isn’t good enough for the courts that have looked at this issue and that it hasn’t been good enough for 535 members of Congress since not one of them has joined in any Obama eligibility lawsuit and not one single member of Congress has filed an amicus brief in support of any of the eligibility lawsuits.

[Natural Born 54]

jamese777 = curiosity = Non-Sequitur = BO suck butt (courtesy ping not warranted)

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Eagles6 writes:

“Anne Dunham’s age did not qualify her to pass American citizenship to her son as per Hawaii law at that time.”

Sorry, that's not correct.

If Obama’s teenage mom gave birth in a foreign country and the father was not a USA citizen, then Obama was not a USA citizen at birth.

That was federal law in 1961, not Hawaii law.

Like you, I want to see Obama’s Long Form BC and full disclosure on every other record in his life.

However, the anti-Birthers will rip you to pieces for a mistake like that.

Thanks for fighting on this issue - your heart is in the right place, even if one of your facts is not.

[screaminsunshine]

Now we see why they put it in there.

[zeestephen]

Jamese777 makes a valid point about Obama’s COLB (aka, Short Form BC) allowing him to get a passport.

In 1994 I applied for a USA passport.

The State Department would not accept a xerox of my own copy of my Long Form BC.

So, I contacted the Birth Records Department in Illinois.

Incredibly, Illinois sent me a COLB that had substantially less information on it than the Hawaii COLB.

I couldn't believe my Illinois COLB would be accepted.

But, four weeks later my USA passport arrived.

I think it's a mistake to argue legal points with jamese777.

He has the mind of a skilled defense attorney.

He rarely argues what is ethical, just what is legal or not legal.

It is time for Conservatives to adapt.

We need to demand “Full Disclosure” of every document pertaining to Obama’s life.

And, just as important, we need to demand “Full Disclosure” from our own presidential candidates.

There is no plausible defense against “Full Disclosure.”

If a candidate resists, then a thousand signs will greet him at every stop - “What Are You Hiding!”

[El Gato]

If Obama was born on Waikiki Beach and if he was delivered by a hippie midwife, he’d still be born in the USA.

And still would not be a Natural Born Citizen, since his father was a foreign national, not a US citizen, not even a permanent legal resident. (not that it matters).

[edge919]

Just because Dr. Fukino’s verification statement isn’t good enough for you doesn’t mean that it isn’t good enough for the courts that have looked at this issue and that it hasn’t been good enough for 535 members of Congress since not one of them has joined in any Obama eligibility lawsuit and not one single member of Congress has filed an amicus brief in support of any of the eligibility lawsuits.

I understand a lot of people are gullible and easily manipulated by misdirection and double-speak. This statement hasn't been entered as evidence in any case I'm aware of. It wouldn't stand up to scrutiny.

[El Gato]

Of course it was intentional. He'd gotten what he wanted from that young bimbo and he was headed out the door. You, Barry, were an unfortunate accident.

Actually it was his mother who headed out the door, with him tow. Assuming she was even in Hawaii in August of '61. By September of '61 she was enrolled for night classes at the Univ. of Washington, in Seattle. She did 3 quarters there, the last one ending after BHO Sr had left Hawaii.

That quote was about BHO Sr's return to Hawaii, which was as the first African grad of U of Hawaii, and an alumnae reunion of sorts. He gave an address to a decent sized crowd. He did not return to see Stanley Ann or Barry, although he did apparently see then briefly.

This appears to be at the airport.

[dinodino]

Perhaps the birth certificate lists someone other than Barack Obama Sr. as the father, thus making Junior a natural-born citizen?

[Uncle Chip]

Just because Dr. Fukino’s verification statement isn’t good enough for you doesn’t mean that it isn’t good enough for the courts that have looked at this issue

The courts haven't looked into this. They have all evaded it -- and you know that but you continue to lie, don't you???

Tell Fukino to submit her statement under oath to one of those courts and she will run like a scared rabbit.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Interesting. Thank you.

Also, not saying it was but, the photo — like so many from Obaam’s childhood, looks to have have the heads pasted onto the bodies.

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The Powers in charge are ignoring the Constitution and abusing the rule of law.

They only enforce the rules when they want to.

Why? Because they believe they can get away with it.

[Eagles6]

You are correct, it was federal law. Important to keep our facts straight.

[jamese777]

The courts haven’t looked into this. They have all evaded it — and you know that but you continue to lie, don’t you???

Tell Fukino to submit her statement under oath to one of those courts and she will run like a scared rabbit.

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Your statement demonstrates that you are ignorant of the difference between “looking into an issue” and a judge, a panel of judges or a Supreme Court dismissing a lawsuit after reading the legal briefs from both sides before rendering an opinion. So I’ll just let your ignorance pass.

As a state government official Dr. Fukino would have no choice but to raise her hand and swear an oath if any Obama eligibility case ever made it to trial. That appears to be unlikely since 62 lawsuits have been rejected thus far including seven rejections by the US Supreme Court. The latest dismissal, “Taitz v Obama” was just dismissed last week by a Ronald Reagan appointed federal chief judge.

Any prosecuting attorney in the nation could subpoena Dr. Fukino to testify in a Grand Jury investigation and she would be obligated to show up as well. Isn’t it interesting that no prosecuting attorney in America has convened a Grand Jury investigation of Obama for forgery and/or fraud.

Dr. Fukino was appointed by and works for the Republican Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle and her statement about Obama’s birth documents was reviewed and approved by the Attorney General of Hawaii, Mark. L. Bennett who is also a Republican.

[jamese777]

Under the laws of Hawaii, the information on the short form COLB cannot be different from what’s on the long form and the Obama Certification of Live Birth lists Barack Hussein Obama Senior as the father. So do the August 13 and 14, 1961 birth announcements for Barack Obama that appeared in both Honolulu newspapers.