There's no existent federal statute which specifically requires a citizen to produce any copy of their birth certificate to qualify for President, unfortunately.
But that wasn't your original argument.
You stated that Hawaii officials had verified the validity of the COLB that he has thus far presented as a digitized image on the web, and to a few employees of FactCheck who aren't document experts.
The Hawaii DOH officials didn't verify that COLB.
I was incorrect in stating that the place of birth wouldn't appear on the COLB, but since no experts (including the officials of the Hawaii DOH) have examined the COLB he's presented, we don't know if it's authentic.
It would be very simple for Obama to let that happen, but he hasn't. Thus the lawsuits, and the controversy.
“There’s no existent federal statute which specifically requires a citizen to produce any copy of their birth certificate to qualify for President, unfortunately.
But that wasn’t your original argument.
You stated that Hawaii officials had verified the validity of the COLB that he has thus far presented as a digitized image on the web, and to a few employees of FactCheck who aren’t document experts.
The Hawaii DOH officials didn’t verify that COLB.
I was incorrect in stating that the place of birth wouldn’t appear on the COLB, but since no experts (including the officials of the Hawaii DOH) have examined the COLB he’s presented, we don’t know if it’s authentic.
It would be very simple for Obama to let that happen, but he hasn’t. Thus the lawsuits, and the controversy.”
From Obama’s legal counsels’ point of view, its the principle of the thing: the short form certificate is valid for establishing citizenship for every other Hawaii citizen. Their legal argument is why should Barack Hussein Obama Junior’s short form COLB be treated any differently?
Hawaii only allows release of copies of the short form COLB, even to the person named on the certificate.
None of us know what has already been presented to Bush administration officials for Obama’s security clearance to engage in his top secret briefings that have already begun with CIA and NSA officials.