Obama and the 57 States on youTube
Isn’t 57 the number of recognized Islamic states in the world?
Posted on 06/10/2008 10:11:40 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Jim Geraghty takes a look at longstanding blog buzz over Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which the campaign refused to release to the St. Petersburg Times in April:
We tried to obtain a copy of Obama’s birth certificate, but his campaign would not release it and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public.
Has anyone seen it? Why shouldn’t the record be in the public domain for presidential candidates?
Geraghty walks through various rumors now circulating in the wake of the Obama campaign’s birth certificate blackout, including this one:
Rumor Three: His mother did not want to name him after his father, and his birth certificate says “Barry.” Perhaps the most plausible of the rumors, as Obama was known by that name through much of his childhood and young adulthood. If true, this would spur a new round of “When Barry Became Barack” stories – a minor headache for the campaign, but hardly a major scandal.
Lest the Obama campaign start whining about this issue being an unfair “distraction,” John McCain underwent intense scrutiny of his citizenship status because of his birth in the Panama Canal zone, leading the Senate to declare him a natural-born citizen in April.
Obama and the 57 States on youTube
Isn’t 57 the number of recognized Islamic states in the world?
Jeff, did you see post #94???
I had already neverd minded.
Still waiting to see that “baptismal certificate”.
I have a question. Would the US government notify some one of that requirement just before the person turned 18, or would he have had to remember on his own?
Maybe it's not so much what is ON the birth certificate, but where that information could lead.
I didn’t know until now that an adopted person would have a new birth certificate at adoption. It makes sense, but I’d never thought about it before. Was Barack adopted by the Indonesian father? Does the new adoptive father then get his name on the birth certificate as if he had been there the year and date the child is born (conceived)?
Another FReeper said today that he called the relevant office in 2004, and was told they don’t bother to check these things.
I’m sorry, I don’t remember who said it.
If he was born in Hawaii in 1961, then he is a natural born US citizen. The other rules only apply if he is born abroad (like in Kenya as some assert) to a single US citizen parent (his mom in this case).
“My best guess is that his parents were not legally married.”
If that were true, that would make him a real “Bastid”.
Ok, I'm confused. If he was adopted by his mother's second husband, why is his name Obama? Did he legally changed it back to his biological father's name at some point?
ROFLOL!
Jack and test, did you see this info in POST 94 on this thread?
Why change the facts of the original certificate? Can you just add an adoptive parent to an existing birth certificate?
It's not the same as an adoption certificate.
*confused*
I can only speak from my experience. When we adopted our daughter, and after all legal requirements were completed, a new birth certificate was issued from the state where she was born (which was not the state we resided in) and we were listed as the parents.
Referring to post #43.
From looking around the web, it does appear that the state of Hawaii provides a mechanism to verify information about a birth certificate without actually receiving a copy of the certificate:
(http://hawaii.gov/health/vital-records/vital-records/vital_records.html)
Letters of Verification
Letters of verification may be issued in lieu of certified copies (HRS §338-14.3). This document verifies the existence of a birth/death/marriage/divorce certificate on file with the Department of Health and any other information that the applicant provides to be verified relating to the vital event. (For example, that a certain named individual was born on a certain date at a certain place.) The verification process will not, however, disclose information about the vital event contained within the certificate that is unknown to and not provided by the applicant in the request.
Letters of verification are requested in similar fashion and using the same request forms as for certified copies.
The fee for a letter of verification is $5 per letter.
I would think that calling the Vital Records Office would be enough to get an explanation of how to write for verification that Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., was born in the state of Hawaii on August 4th, 1961, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., and Ann Dunham. (The web page says "Letters of verification are requested in similar fashion and using the same request forms as for certified copies", but I didn't see anywhere on the provided PDFs to request verification rather than a certified copy, so I think that it might take a telephone call to ensure that the verification request is being done correctly.)
The end product would hopefully be that one gets a "yes" or "no" answer to the question from the Vital Records department.
I say we’ll probably see the birth certificate at the same time we see Bill Clinton’s Medical Records!!
And Jon Carry’s complete military records
Yep!!
Then the MSM will drum up support for calling it an archaic "technicality" that should be overruled by the USSC because of the immense popularity of Obama,
USSC literally could not rule on this as it is in black and white in the Constitution. There is ZERO wiggle room for interpretation on this.
-PJ
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