Posted on 07/28/2009 10:53:24 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Edited on 07/28/2009 1:59:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
According to an AP story, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Health Director with the Hawaii State Department of Health, has issued a new statement seeking to "stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama's birthplace." "I…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 issue in October 2008, over eight months ago." AP asserts that "Fukino issued a similar press release Oct. 31." However, in her statement in October Fukino said "I…have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures." The original statement said nothing about the content of the birth record. The new statement therefore goes significantly farther than the original statement in October, though both the AP story and Fukino herself give the deceptive impression that it does not. Given this evident obfuscation, why should I or anyone else simply take Fukino's words at face value?
Her new and more substantive statement comes in the context of passage by the US Congress of a unanimous resolution commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Hawaii's admission as a state of the United States which declares "Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961…." Sadly, this Congressional action only serves as further proof that all the members of Congress from both parties now irresponsibility vote to affirm what they have never read.
This flurry of activity is meant to distract public attention from the palpable contradictions that have emerged in the cover story the Obama faction has used on account of his unwillingness to produce a birth record that actually contains the information needed to lay the controversy to rest. Until recently no one in the manipulated media has been willing to address this failure factually. Despite this repression, more and more people have become aware of the fact that the "certification of live birth" published on the internet during the Presidential campaign last fall did not establish Obama's eligibility for two reasons: a) such certifications were issued at the time to people not born on US soil. Therefore, the published document did nothing to overcome the objection (raised because of the testimony of Obama's African relatives) that he was born in Kenya at a time when his mother, who was married to a foreign national, was not of age to transmit US citizenship; and b) the internet published certification contained no details as to the hospital at which the birth took place, or the doctor who delivered the child, details that could be used to establish what must otherwise be treated as uncorroborated testimony.
Given the lack of such details, the fact that at various times the media and elements of the Obama faction made conflicting statements about the hospital of his birth (was it Queens Medical Center, or Kapiolani?), further aggravated the need to substantiate the true facts.
Then Lou Dobbs acknowledged on his CNN program that there is a factual doubt about Obama's birth that has not been addressed. In response CNN president Jon Klein reportedly claimed in an e-mail that "CNN researchers found Hawaiian records were discarded in 2001 when the state's records system went electronic. Therefore, Klein said, Obama's original long-form birth certificate no longer exists. A computer generated abbreviated version that has been promoted on the Internet is the official record."
But Hawaiian officials rebutted this story. "I am not aware of any birth certificate records that have been destroyed by the department," Janice Okubo, public information officer for the Hawaii DOH, told WND. "When the department went electronic in 2001, vital records, whether in paper form or any other form, [were] maintained. We don't destroy records….Any records we had in paper or any other form before 2001 are still in file within the department," she insisted. "We have not destroyed any vital records that we have."
This Hawaii official flatly declared that the Obama's actual long-form birth certificate is in the possession of the State of Hawaii. Hawaii Health Director Fukino now belatedly declares that it contains the information needed to lay the eligibility question to rest once and for all. The AP story now disingenuously admits that the Constitution's eligibility provisions are "a key constitutional requirement for being president." So with respect to this key requirement, why are the American people being asked to accept less than the best evidence available? All along people like me have simply asked that the facts be fairly proven so as to preserve the integrity of the Constitution's authority. In this regard the issue is not whether Obama remains in office or is declared ineligible to serve, but whether the issue is resolved in accordance with the Constitution's provisions.
Sadly, pundits like Ann Coulter have unfairly characterized this simple concern for Constitutional integrity as some kind of "conspiracy theory." Actually, it's just a refusal to declare a fact not in evidence. There was a time when good journalists, like good lawyers, refused to be manipulated into doing so. A fair and proper hearing requires that evidence be produced and subjected to careful examination (by experts if need be.) It requires that witness be confronted and cross examined. Though the issue of Obama's eligibility for the Presidency involves the integrity of the Supreme law of the land (not to mention the right to occupy the key governmental office it establishes), there has been no such fair and proper hearing to ascertain the facts and make clear the principles on which it can be decided. This failure is not so much a conspiracy as a massive dereliction of duty on the part of officials oath bound to preserve the Constitution of the United States. How can we be satisfied until such a hearing takes place, openly televised, with both sides to the controversy fairly represented and fairly treated? Only then will the American people have reason to be confident that the conclusion reached is based on carefully gathering and fairly examining all the available evidence.
Such a hearing would exemplify the solemn respect we ought to have for our Constitution. It would therefore serve the common good of our nation. But it would not serve the unbounded ambition of the Obama faction, or comfort the reprehensible cowardice of their supposed opponents. If we wait upon them to serve fairness, truth and constitutional integrity, we may as well whistle for a wind.
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Amen!
SO many folks here on FR have aided (or abetted) in my knowledge of SO many things.
Where to start?
“They won’t “come out with it” they will use it to “motivate” Obama to act as necessary..., or else.”
Well if that keeps him from giving Jerusalem to the Palis, then that is good but I don’t like the idea of an “owned” American President. Perhaps he should step down and leave the big boy job to that idiot VP.
1) Total ignorance, "The American Idol" is where the cultural heart of American's young is today!
2) A very oiled Chicago machinery gang (ster) using intimidation (Acorn, the black X-ter) plus the RACE CARD. Remember Hillary's own PUMA chicks' outcry and Bill Clinton, their first "black" President, said he was slapped with the race card and since then he was totally muzzled and silenced very effectively (Why all the Clinton's stooges in the administration???)
3) I firmly believe there is unknown power houses that are pulling the strings by groomed and putting this unknown and "Slick-Barry" in office to destroy our beloved the United States of America (Alinsky ideologies and Marxism power from outside the U.S. including from Muslim's power)
4) That same power has neutered our own spineless party and judicial system to get in lockstep with this Constitutional crisis,
5) Our school system has been invaded by the sixties hippies, and their children occupies the SRM, exactly what Marx and Lening declared. Why did we have that vicious attack from the SRM yesterday, and who gave "our" side of the media the marching order to attack us so foul and vicious, huh, tell me please? I was baffled by how some "conservative (?) radio talk show host spewed venom at us. There must be some evil forces moving ahead to destroy our country at any cost.
6) I feel our Armed Forces is the only hope of rescue this sinking "Titanic." MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!
IMHO...they are bound and determined NOT to deal with this until he has been able to assure a compliant Supreme Court is in place...
The framers had this ALL figured out. What in the HELL is wrong with the officials and the courts? Seem suspicious to you? Does to me.
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Many people in very important places, have abdicated their responsibilities to the Constitution. It is, or it borders on criminal. Why do I say that? Because they are crimes against our nation, its history and its ways...and against the blood of our fathers that was shed to make our freedom possible.
That’s about as high a crime as you can commit.
People in those positions of authority - Congress, SCOTUS, our state officials, had better seriously ponder the US Constitution and have these serious discussions with us.
Frankly, I think about 80% of Americans have very limited interest or knowledge about politics.
Unless you can smash through that First Great Wall of Ignorance, and then follow up quickly with an easily understood narrative, chances are your issue is going no place, especially if you’re a Conservative.
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Right we need quick, persuasive arguments.
My lines with people at the stoplight at 116th and NE 8th in Bellevue, WA (near Seattle) with our counterprotest to the Soros lackies with their pre-printed ‘single payer option now’ signs, was this:
“Read the bill. Your Congresspeople aren’t reading it, so you need to ‘read the bill!”
OR
“Who will pay?” - this hits ‘em right in the wallet...can they answer that question? Probably not very well!
You’d be amazed at the responses and conversations we had that evening, as people drove home, had their windows open on a hot day, and engaged us in good and not so good bantor...
It was great - but I agree, we need to get in people’s zone and then have a compelling argument - quick and cogent.
It can be done. People are listening and one thing I’ve found is that while ignorance is 80% perhaps - there’s about 60% that will wake up for important matters like this.
So we must soldier on, in these matters - but wisely, as you suggest, and with quick, smart, even humorous catch phrases that reflect our fact based arguments - against say socializing medicine.
It also really helps to know and understand alternative plans - as those things come up - and once you suggest some alternatives, it really disarms people - as they’re used to now thinking Bammy’s way, is the only possible way - cause they haven’t bothered to think about it - which gets back to your first point!
Couldn’t agree with you more Bruce. CO
I agree with the Jerusalem comment and I'm terrified about what the Russians will demand... Its never good for the alleged "Most powerful man in the world" to have his you know what in the you know what...
For the first time, I actually think the Parliamentary system would be good in THIS situation. I was always of the opinion that the USA had the far superior system because of all it’s “checks and balances”. Little did I know that this thug would come along. CO
PING!! Enjoy. CO
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