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The Island of Dr. Fukino - Bizarre Statements on Obama's origins
PA Times | 7/29/09 | Pissant

Posted on 07/29/2009 8:52:01 PM PDT by pissant

Back in October 2008, after the dreaded Constitutionalists began closing in on Obama's fraudulent Certification of Live Birth (COLB), out popped the Head of Hawaii's Dept of Health, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, a middle aged, balding, sturdy woman, to provide the first of two statements she would make in an attempt to tamp down the controversy.

"There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record"

"Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."

But the controversy was NOT that Obama did not have an original birth certificate. The controversy was that he had not RELEASED it. The Constitutionalists and AfterBirthers both understood that the COLB scan Obama allegedly sent to leftwing organs FactCheck and DailyKos was at best a modern, computer generated summation document with limited info culled from a State database. Constitutionalists claimed it to a fraud, while AfterBirthers claimed it reflected reality.

Fukino's lawyer-produced statement gives the impression of legitimizing Obama's COLB, but it did not. She did not mention it, she did not verify its contents, but she did confirm they had the "original birth certificate" on file. Yet her non-statement had the AfterBirthers crowing, but the Constitutionalists knew they were being handed a line of nothingness, and continued to plow on.

Fast forward to late July of 2009. The Constitutionalists continued to hammer away, the AfterBirther leftie blogosphere continued to argue that "Obama already released his 'birth certificate", and the State Run Media (SRM) was content to ignore the situation altogether. They ignored it, because it made no sense to draw attention to the fact the lawsuits demanding Obama show his BC were continuing; and Obama was spending a kings ransom on high buck lawyers from Perkins Coie to suppress the release of his BC.

But 6 things happened that forced the SRM to get back into the game.

1) Rush Limbaugh was making more frequent jokes and statements regarding Obama not having produced a BC

2) One of Orly Taitz' lawsuits was given life by a federal judge.

3) The Constitutionalists were kicking the AfterBirthers butts in the blogosphere.

4) Lou Dobbs of CNN demanded Obama release the BC.

5) A case of a US soldier demanding Obama cough up his BC before he would deploy made the news.

6) A woman was taped at republican Mike Castles town hall meeting browbeating the hapless RINO. And the audience cheered her on. The tape went viral on Youtube

So suddenly one morning last week, America woke up to find a barrage of SRM articles condemning the "crazy", "nutty" Constitutionalists (who they call birthers) and proclaiming that the issue had been "settled" last year. They all used the same talking points, lifted right out of Media Matters or FactCheck. And every major SRM outlet particpated. It's almost as if Obama's marxist henchman David Axelrod had started another Astroturf project.But the Constitutionalists fought back, and exposed the gaping holes in the SRM's narrative. In the meantime, more republican house members were signing up as sponsors for a bill to make future presidential candidates cough up their BCs in order to make the ballot.

So in steps Dr. Fukino, once more. Another carefully crafted lawyer written statement was released on July 27, 2009. It reads:

"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.

Once again, to the casual observer, this looks like a definitive statement that puts Obama in the free and clear. But note the lack of the words "birth certificate". Instead she uses the term vital records. Well, the darn COLB was a summation of vital records. Any family request to change Obama's birth from foreign or non-Hawaiian to Hawaiian would be part of the vital records. Any request to have Obama legally adopted would be part of the vital records. She also does not state that Obama IS Hawaiian born, she says the vital records she looked at say so, which could have been changed to reflect a request from the family, given the right circumstances. And I'll guarantee you that the vital records did not say he is a "natural born citizen", as Miss Fukino states. Miss Fukino is a medical doctor, and not a constitutional or immigration law scholar, and it is highly suspect that she would in include this in her statement. The smart money says an Obama lawyer helped her craft this slippery blurb.

It still stands that no HI gov't official, Miss Fukino included, has ever:

1) Verified that the COLB Obama presented via FactCheck and DailyKos is a valid document.

2) Verified that the information on the COLB is accurate.

3) Verified what information is on the original vault birth certificate.

4) Verified what, if any, changes were requested and accepted to Obama's vital records.

5) Verified who Obama's mother and father are.

6) Verified what hospital Obama was born in.

7) Verified who the attending doctor was for Obama's Birth.

So the beat goes on. Also, one has to wonder, since it is specifically against the law for an official to release information regarding Obama's birth certificate except to a legal family member, how this 2nd statement came about. It could very well be, she did not release any information from Obama's birth certificate at all.

Consider this little "nope, we can't do it" email from Dr. Fukino's spokesbabe Janice Okubo in response to a questions from the blogger that runs 24Ahead (I'm including his questions for clarity):

Here are the questions I sent them:

1. Did that statement (or any other official statement from the state government) confirm that Obama was born in Hawaii , as some have assumed?

2. Did that statement (or any other official statement from the state government) confirm that the certificate you have on file matches the one on Obama's website?

3. Is it illegal under Hawaii state law to confirm where Obama was born, or to confirm that the certificate you have on file matches the one on Obama's website?

And, here's the non-reply reply:

Dr. Fukino has said that her statement stands on its own, and she does not feel there is any need for further comment.

Hawaii State law protects the birth records of all individuals born in our state under all circumstances. State law prohibits the Department of Health from disclosing any information about a Hawaii vital record unless the requestor has a direct and tangible interest in the record. This includes verification of vital records and all the information contained in a record. Direct and tangible interest is determined by HRS §338-18(b).
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0018.htm

For information on the law that governs vital records in the State of Hawaii , please refer to HRS §338 at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/

Information on obtaining certified copies of vital records is available on the Hawaii DOH website at www.hawaii.gov/health

Janice Okubo
Communications Office
Hawaii State Department of Health

The plot only thickens my friends. We will get to the bottom of this fraudulence one way or another.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: certifigate; eligibility; larrysinclairslover; naturalborncitizen; nobama; obama
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To: the invisib1e hand
'member Don Ho?'

Fighter pilot, father of ten (in two batches)?

MISTER HAWAI'I ???

Tiny Bubbles ??

41 posted on 07/29/2009 10:39:40 PM PDT by skeptoid
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To: April Lexington
Bill was visiting the CIA today for a reason...

Holy cow! You're right.

Put two and two together...

42 posted on 07/29/2009 10:41:28 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: getontwitterfacebknow
Passport information when Obama was on his travels in the 80s.

Also, info compiled/compared when he and other Senators were detained in Aug 2005:
Lugar (Obama) delegation detained for three hours in Perm after inspecting nuke weapons facility

43 posted on 07/29/2009 10:43:46 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2

Bookmark.


44 posted on 07/29/2009 10:44:50 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: April Lexington

Doubt NYT would ever turn on Obama. They may report after the fact, but highly unlikely that NYT would cross Obama like that out of the gate.


45 posted on 07/29/2009 10:47:06 PM PDT by getontwitterfacebknow
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To: Cyropaedia

Obama has been outmaneuvered. The frantic push for health care legislation says it all. This guy will not be a political force by fall if the information leaks out. Its lame duck for 3.5 years or a resignation... Keep in mind... Rahm spent time in Israel and it wasn’t to learn how to plant olives. They have their man in the White House and now that man is being asked to dance...


46 posted on 07/29/2009 10:48:13 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: getontwitterfacebknow

I used NYT as a metaphor for the media. It will likely leak from Chicago...


47 posted on 07/29/2009 10:49:10 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: BP2

What ‘info’ would be compiled/compared? If they already had the info, doubt the 2005 incident provided any additional info.

They don’t need to blackmail Obama. Highly unlikely that Obama has any issues with the Russian agenda. They probably see eye to eye on most issues. No reason to blackmail.


48 posted on 07/29/2009 10:51:01 PM PDT by getontwitterfacebknow
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To: April Lexington

Rahm isn’t Israel’s man. He’s Soros’ man.


49 posted on 07/29/2009 10:53:12 PM PDT by getontwitterfacebknow
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To: pissant
Love it! Well done. I gave this seemy story a spin today. But i enjoyed your version more!
50 posted on 07/29/2009 10:54:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: getontwitterfacebknow
Doubt NYT would ever turn on Obama.

You may be right. But Loyalty is a fickle thing in Washington with plummeting approval numbers and no realistic reason to think Obama will reverse the RAPID DEPLETION of his "political capital".

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51 posted on 07/29/2009 10:58:35 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: April Lexington
April, I've been thinking the same thing. Trying to get national health care reform railroaded through in the first six months is precisely what derailed the Clinton administration and set the Democratic Party back a dozen years via losses in the House and Senate.

Even Charlie Rangel has been complaining that they're trying to rush everything through too fast.

And remember, Rangel was a delegate for Hillary. I don't think that he's really all that impressed with Barry.

52 posted on 07/29/2009 10:59:35 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Would you pronounce that t’o as t ugh oo ?


53 posted on 07/29/2009 10:59:50 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: getontwitterfacebknow
Rahm isn’t Israel’s man. He’s Soros’ man.

Soros plays the Russians and the Israelis like fiddles. The Jews don't really care much for the guy after he suggested the Holocaust was "deserved." It is becoming clear that Obama is way too unqualified to be POTUS. He lacks experience and wisdom. He's way too radical for the current geopolitical climate. Someone needs to keep him on track and that's where Rahm comes in. Rahm is a complex guy but he is incredibly smart and he has an agenda that has nothing to do with promoting a black president. The problem is, someone else has the goods on Obama and Rahm is frantically trying to control the situation. The best way is to get America sick of the whole birth thing so it becomes a non-impeachable issue when it is revealed (like Clinton lying under oath). It is their only hope of staying in the White House until 2012...

54 posted on 07/29/2009 11:06:28 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Cyropaedia

The RNC would not stand up to Obozo in January with a 70% Gallup approval.

Now that Obozo is 39% approval, he doesn’t seem as bullet-proof. IMO, he never was — it was all an illusion put forth by the MSM.

Obama’s very vulnerable now — and he’s starting to realize it. The more he has diarrhea of the mouth (like with the “stupidly” comment), the more he screws up. I hope the Dems seize the moment.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend ;)


55 posted on 07/29/2009 11:08:51 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: BP2
This is why the GOP establishment is trashing the Birthers. They ONLY hope the GOP has of regaining ANY power, anywhere, is a landslide reaction to Obama. If we force Obama out of office now, Biden becomes president, he appoints Hillary and they begin to put together a middle of the road strategy that keeps the GOP out of power for decades (just like FDR). So... Coulter is howling like a hound, etc.
56 posted on 07/29/2009 11:14:41 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: April Lexington
Sounds plausible, all until the “non-impeachable” part.
Obots appear to have succeeded in clouding the natural born citizen issue to the point that no one trys to understand it. To be a president, Article II Section 1 requires natural born citizenship. Being natural born means citizenship by nature, not by law. The definition, quoted in numerous supreme court cases, and the source sited, is “born of the soil, and of parents who are citizens.” The Obama people don't like to talk about the parents part, but Patrick Leahy, Clair McGaskill, Hillary Clinton, and, while he isn't an Obama person, Michael Chertoff confirmed the definition here: http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/041008c.html

Is this so hard to understand? Obama is not a constitutional president. I don't believe he can be impeached. He is an ordinary, but very crafty, former senator (for which one need not be a natural born citizen). I suspect he has committed felonies, since he knows very well what the proper definition is. I'd be surprised if Larry Tribe didn't require reading of The Venus at Harvard Law. A birth certificate showing birth in Hawaii does not make him qualified, though a birth certificate showing him born in some other country could disqualify him.

57 posted on 07/29/2009 11:28:58 PM PDT by Spaulding
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To: BP2
This Crowley/Gates affair really shows everyone what happens when he's forced to operate without a teleprompter.

Even Jon Stewart slammed him for the lack of "nuance" in his remarks ( foot in mouth ).

58 posted on 07/29/2009 11:33:32 PM PDT by Cyropaedia ("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
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To: pissant
State law prohibits the Department of Health from disclosing any information about a Hawaii vital record unless the requestor has a direct and tangible interest in the record. This includes verification of vital records and all the information contained in a record.

Unless Obama (or someone else with a "direct and tangible interest") authorized the disclosure by Fukino that the vital record consisting of his birth records states that he was born in Hawaii, Fukino has violated this prohibition.

It is astonishing that no journalist has asked Fukino if Obama communicated with her to authorize her statement, and what the substance of that communication was. American journalists put the old Soviet Pravda and Izvestia to shame in terms of corruption.

I am not aware of any privilege or confidentiality right that would apply to any such communication between Obama and the State of Hawaii Department of Health. If Fukino refuses to disclose it, I would expect that state FOIA laws could be used to uncover it.

If there was no authorization from Obama, on what legal basis did Fukino disclose the fact that Obama's birth records state he was born in Hawaii?

59 posted on 07/29/2009 11:37:24 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: STARWISE; pissant

Well done..love the term: ‘Afterbirthers’...LOL

Why should all Americans take the word of one woman in Hawaii anyway? That’s what bugs the hell out of me. Reminds me of John Kerry’s scam of ‘releasing’ his military record(partial) to just a few select friendly biased media hacks.

Obama’s records(ALL OF THEM) should be released so that every American can view and examine them.


60 posted on 07/30/2009 3:58:45 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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