How the Media Lied about Obama’s Birth Records

AIM ^ | April 16, 2010 | Margaret Calhoun Hemenway

[opentalk]

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.

[jamese777]

Where in the Constitution is there any reference to one’s parents needing to be US citizens?

[dinodino]

Oh well, British father it is then. I guess you’re correct—Obama is ineligible to be President.

[Uncle Chip]

<>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.<>

Sorry to disappoint you but the only document that her statement could remotely be derived from is Pelosi’s lying affidavit below:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2493246/posts?page=193#193

Of course, she couldn’t make the statement if she lived in one of the other 49 states.

[opentalk]

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.

HI AG denies having information supporting Department Health claim - original Obama vital records thread,

Not true

----Deputy Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, which affirms her email early last month to our Editor-in-Chief, Mr. John Charlton, stating that her office will not or cannot corroborate any of the Department of Health’s public statements regarding the alleged birth of Barack Hussein Obama in Hawaii.

[jamese777]

You don’t need “information” to review a letter.
You fell for a John Charlton, Post and Email ruse: call the Office of the Attorney General and ask for the release of information that was used to approve Dr. Fukino’s letter validiting Obama’s Hawaii birth. A Deputy Attorney General tells Charlton, “I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any such informtation.” Charlton publishes that innocuous statement as a headline: “Hawaii refuses to confirm the existence of any information....blah, blah, blah.
However the Director of Communications for the Hawaii Department of Health had confirmed the approval of the Attorney General much earlier.
“Hawaii AG Bennett Reviewed and Approved Fukino 7/27 statement”: http://24ahead.com/hi-ag-mark-bennett-reviewed-and-approved-fukino-727-statemen

[jamese777]

Sorry to disappoint you but the only document that her statement could remotely be derived from is Pelosi’s lying affidavit below:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2493246/posts?page=193#193

Of course, she couldn’t make the statement if she lived in one of the other 49 states.

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I’m sorry to disappoint you but Dr. Fukino was quite clear in her statement: SHE VIEWED THE ORIGINAL OBAMA VITAL RECORDS.
Here’s what she actually said one more time: “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.”

“Dr. Chiyome Fukino Confirms President Obama’s Natural Born Citizenship”: http://spotlight.vitals.com/2009/07/dr-chiyome-fukino-confirms-president-obamas-natural-citizenship/

[jamese777]

Oh well, British father it is then. I guess you’re correct—Obama is ineligible to be President.

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Darn. Both of Andrew Jackson’s parents were born in Ireland and he’s on my twenty-dollar bills! ;-)

Obama is the 7th president to have foreign born parents: Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) is the only president born of two foreign born parents, both Irish. Presidents with one foreign born parent are Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), whose mother was born in England, James Buchanan (1857-1861) and Chester Arthur (1881-1885), both of whom had Irish fathers. Woodrow Wilson’s (1913-1921) and Herbert Hoover’s (1929-1933), mothers were born respectively in England and Canada.

[Clemenza]

George Romney was born in Mexico (to American parents), and was a Mormon to boot. These were not issues when he ran for the GOP nomination in 1968. Those who would have made an issue of it back then were still registered as Democrats, and were voting for Wallace back then.

[jamese777]

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!”

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I could have sworn that conservatives have been demanding Obama’s documents since he was first nominated by the Democrats.
Conservatives also need to be mindful of the possiblity of a Clinton-like “document drop” by Obama at a time when it will work the best to discredit conservatives and make Obama look like the victim of harassment.
You appear to me to be a bit politically naive. “Demanding full disclosure” from candidates is pointless. It is responsibility of the political opposition to any candidate to uncover that which is hidden. Expecting any candidate to reveal information that would make them look bad is just plain silly.
Did you really expect Bill Clinton or Mark Sanford to hold press conferences and announce that they had mistresses prior to the uncovering of that information by third parties?
Obama has every right to keep his personal information private and conservatives have every right to dig out that private information and expose it when they find it. Becoming President does not require relinquishing personal privacy rights.
If a candidate or an elected official isn’t forthcoming enough, you have the right to vote against them.

[STARWISE]

Audio, Steve Malzberg interviewing Margaret Hemenway about
LTC Terry Lakin, 4-15-10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22775IKcdg

[Red Steel]

Thank for the ping Star. :-)

[STARWISE]

Welcome ... and more. They say the link to the minutes where Orengo talks about -0 has been restored, but strangely .. the minutes for the hearing on 3-w5-10 .... are mysteriously again .... GONE ..... ;)

http://www.parliament.go.ke/parliament/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=84

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Kenyan Parliament restores March 25, 2010 Minutes declaring Obama born in Kenya

http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/04/16/kenyan-parliament-restores-march-25-2010-minutes-declaring-obama-born-in-kenya/

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DOCUMENT CONTAINS BOLDEST STATEMENT YET CLAIMING THAT OBAMA IS KENYAN-BORN

by Sharon Rondeau

(Apr. 16, 2010) — The March 25, 2010 “Hansard,” or Minutes of the Kenyan Parliament, is again accessible through the Parliament’s website. The document contains a clear and unequivocal statement that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya and is consequently not a “native American.”

The link to the document from Parliament’s website was dead for a time yesterday. It is possible that the document was moved, as the link to the Minutes embedded in The Post & Email’s original article about it is now dead.

The text of the statement made by Kenya’s Minister of Lands, James Orengo, appears in the middle of page 31 and reads as follows:

If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation, how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the President of America?” (emphasis added by The Post & Email)

The website was updated yesterday and all Hansards from 2008 were removed, which included the November 5, 2008 Hansard in which many statements referring to Obama’s purported Kenyan origins were recorded.

The Kenyan Parliament has announced that it has just adjourned for two months.

[STARWISE]

Military Veteran tells Army official: Investigate Obama, not Lt. Col. Lakin
IF ENLISTED MEMBERS MUST SHOW THEIRS, SO SHOULD OBAMA

April 18, 2010

http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/04/18/military-veteran-tells-army-official-investigate-obama-not-lt-col-lakin/

This photo, taken from the U.S. Army’s official website, depicts new service members taking the oath of enlistment. But who is their Commander-in-Chief?

http://www.thepostemail.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/New-servicemembers-enlisting.jpg

Dear Editor:

The following is a letter sent to Army spokesman Chuck Dasey in regard to the case of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who has refused to take any further orders until Obama shows his original birth certificate:

Dear Mr. Dasey,

With all due respect, sir, may I suggest that rather than investigating Lt. Col. Lakin, an honorable, patriotic officer, who was required to show his birth certificate before deployment, you investigate Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro), who, to date, has refused to produce his.

When I enlisted in 1963, I had to produce my long form birth certificate. You did, too. Why, then, does this standard not apply to the man acting as Commander in Chief?

Barack Obama’s first official act after taking office was to sign an executive order sealing virtually ALL of his records and documents that might shed light on who and what he truly is. I ask you sir, would a man with nothing to hide do such a thing?

Recently, a video has surfaced in which Michelle Obama herself stated that Kenya is Barack Obama’s homeland. Even more recently, The Kenyan Parliament (on page 31 of the Minutes) stated that Barack Obama is Kenyan-born.

The U.S. Constitution clearly states in Article II, Section 1, paragraph 5, that no person, except a natural born Citizen of the United States of America shall hold the office of President. That exempts Barack Obama.

Mr. Dasey, you swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. I doubt that oath has an expiration date. Isn’t it about time the military started honoring that oath? I beg of you… do not investigate Lt. Col. Lakin. Instead, investigate the man who truly needs investigating… Barack Hussein Obama.

Respectfully,

David Briggs
United States Navy, 1963-69
Task Force 116, 573rd River Division

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Editor’s Note: The appropriate military officials may be contacted as follows:

Army Spokesman Chuck Dasey, (202) 782-7500; email: chuck.dasey@us.army.mil

Army Spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, inquire with Pentagon switchboard at (703) 545-6700

Pentagon Public Inquiries – 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday (Eastern Time Zone) – (703) 571-3343

By surface mail:

Pentagon
1400 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1400
(703) 697-1776

Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
9999 Joint Staff Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20318-9999

For Chiefs of Staff of the Army, Secretary of the Army, etc.:

1400 Defense Pentagon
Washington DC 20301-1400

or complete the Department of Defense web comment form here.

http://www.defense.gov/landing/questions.aspx

[roaddog727]

Anything having to do with ZERO is pure BS

[giotto]

Sooner or later, this is all going to blow up, and heads are going to roll.

I've been waiting for that to happen since Vince Foster's "suicide" in 1993. I don't think it's going to happen. What will happen is that Internet TV will eclipse the Big 3 networks, and they will be like porch lights burning unnoticed in the noonday sun. Unfortunately, the lying liars who lied day and night on those networks will never get their just desserts. So it goes.

[Uncle Chip]

I’m sorry to disappoint you but Dr. Fukino was quite clear in her statement: SHE VIEWED THE ORIGINAL OBAMA VITAL RECORDS.

LOLOLOL.

Did she make her statement under oath??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Did she back up her statement by releasing the ORIGINAL VITAL RECORDS that she supposedly viewed????? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Did she violate Hawaiian Law by making that statement and then subsequently not releasing the records that she relied upon to make that statement as required by Hawaiian Law??????????? YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

That makes her a lawbreaker and lawbreakers have no credibility. Their words like her words as a lawbreaker covering up incompetence and corruption are meaningless.

Perhaps she would like to come to Court and issue her statement UNDER OATH where it can be cross-examined. If not, then her words like your posts mean diddly-squat.

[penelopesire]

Thanks for the ping and the links!

[seekthetruth]

AND NOW WE HAVE THE COMMENTS OF JUSTICE THOMAS!

Just in case you have not seen this clip:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=142101

[jamese777]

I’m sorry to disappoint you but Dr. Fukino was quite clear in her statement: SHE VIEWED THE ORIGINAL OBAMA VITAL RECORDS.
LOLOLOL.

Did she make her statement under oath??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Did she back up her statement by releasing the ORIGINAL VITAL RECORDS that she supposedly viewed????? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Did she violate Hawaiian Law by making that statement and then subsequently not releasing the records that she relied upon to make that statement as required by Hawaiian Law??????????? YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

That makes her a lawbreaker and lawbreakers have no credibility. Their words like her words as a lawbreaker covering up incompetence and corruption are meaningless.

Perhaps she would like to come to Court and issue her statement UNDER OATH where it can be cross-examined. If not, then her words like your posts mean diddly-squat.

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If any of the Obama eligibility lawsuits should ever make it to trial I am sure that Dr. Fukino WILL be subpoenaed to testify under oath and that subpoena will come from the U.S. government lawyers representing Obama.
However thus far 69 Obama elgibility lawsuits have been dismissed, denied, or rejected on appeal and 5 are still pending.
Since the Hawaii Attorney General’s office has not initiated an investigation into whether Dr. Fukino violated any Hawaii statute and since her statement was released on July 29, 2009, 9 months ago, its not looking too good for your supposition.
Time will tell! ;-)

[Uncle Chip]

She will be singing a different song when she is placed under oath and confronted with contrarian facts on those VITAL RECORDS that she will be forced to bring with her. She will be sweating bullets —