Diana West has been out of this particular closet for quite a while. Here's another piece of hers on Certifigate from December 12, 2008:
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2008/12/12/where_were_you_born,_obama
Posted on 07/30/2009 6:20:12 PM PDT by pissant
Barack Obama's birthday is Aug. 4, and I hereby urge the president to bestow a party favor on the nation that elected him: a verifying look at the original "long-form" version of his birth certificate. It's important to grasp the weird fact that this simple request, requiring nothing more than a nod of the presidential head, ranks as fightin' words to American journalists. Right wing, left wing, these ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth Estate seem to want nothing less than to gain access to the one piece of evidence that could lay the "natural born" issue to rest once and for all. The media have made their aversion to proof perversely clear: Whatever Obama does, their jarringly unified message is that he certainly should not direct the state of Hawaii to make public his original, long-form birth certificate.
Even though such a presidential directive would instantly dispense with the divisive question of whether President Obama's still-secret, long-form birth certificate contains compromising information, it's unlikely we'll get a peak. The entire controversy would disappear forever if there were nothing more sensational on that document than the name of the Hawaiian hospital where baby Barack came into the world. Such mundane info is the kind of thing that's missing from what We the People have been provided to date: brave-new-world-like Internet images of the short-form Certification of Live Birth (COLB) that the Obama campaign made available in 2008 online.
I emphasize the web-projected, liquid-crystal display nature of the imagery that the mainstream media (MSM) have unquestioningly relied on, even as they have imperiously dismissed all questions regarding its veracity and provenance as "Internet-fueled rumor." In MSM eyes, the Obama campaign document becomes the rock-solid truth, while questions about it amount to "Internet-fueled rumor." To be sure, there is COLB-corroborating evidence available -- contemporaneous announcements of baby Barack's arrival in local Hawaiian papers are usually cited as the clincher -- but none of it is definitive. The president's maternal grandparents could have been the ones who placed the birth announcement in the papers, regardless of whether their first grandchild was in state residence. Even the oracles of the Hawaiian health department, periodically trotted out to pronounce that all is as should be with the president's top secret birth papers, leave us with nothing concrete. Why won't the president just give us a look at the thing and be done with it?
This is the mystery behind the unease "out there," unease the MSM are now simultaneously picking up on even as they try to squelch it. And this is true particularly after CNN's Lou Dobbs raised the issue in a historically resonant manner: Dobbs trusts that Obama is a natural-born citizen but would like the president to verify his status regardless.
And why not? It is no accident that history and literature are replete with rocky tales of doubtful succession, of the maladjustment brought on by pretenders to thrones. There is something in human nature that yearns for the rightful leader. And there is something in our Constitution that requires it. So why won't this president, who, after all, promised the American people an unprecedented level of transparency, reveal his original long-form birth certificate? Unheeded, the "natural born" controversy will roil indefinitely, further fired by the vagaries of Hawaiian law -- specifically, Section 338-17.8, titled "Certificates for children born out of State" (WorldNetDaily.com) -- which makes state birth documentation available to children born out of state, even born out of the country.
None of this is healthy, not the president's suspicious secrecy and not the MSM's protective incuriosity. It almost seems as if someone has something to hide.
“Barack Obama’s birthday is Aug. 4...”
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A day that will live in infamy.
Assuming its his real Bday, anyway.
Who’d have thought that the question of a president’s citizenship would become a third rail issue? That’s how far away from being a republic we have drifted. The timidity of Americans is frightening.
Yet we plow on like a bulldozer.
We don’t
Wassamatterwithyou?
You’re a typical cynical FReeper.
It almost seems as if someone has something to hide.
Why does it seem the intensity of this issue ebbs and flows with every important vote in the legislative branch or whenever the President is in trouble? The term “attractive nuisance” comes to mind.
I ask everyone... who is nuttier? The “birthers”, or some moron who would spend 1 million dollars to hide nothing?
Yes, it will be very interesting to see how big a deal they are going to make out of his birthday. Given how many people are interested in the BC issue. That birthday just happens to be bad, bad timing, Barry!!
I think it is telling that there hasn’t been a poll taken asking whether or not people believe Obama to be qualified.
“I ask everyone... who is nuttier?”
My answer would be, “Those that remain willing to buy a cat in a bag.”
We are ridiculed for asking a simple question: “What is the evidence Obama is a citizen?”
If they point to the COLB his attorney said he placed on the internet, “What about the experts that found the document is a fabrication?”.
If they insist it is not a forgery, “What about the fact Hawaii specifies it does not provide conclusive evidence of citizenship?”
Perhaps all those questions demonstrate why they claim it doesn’t make sense for O to produce anything...because we will never be satisfied.
There's nobody more acceptable, more mainstream, more credible with the MSM CW crowd than Olson and Tribe. How about ask them about Barry's 'Natural Born Citizenship'.
The conspiracy to protect the Kenyan Imposter is unraveling.
Suspicions about his birth are a cancer on the presidency. =)
He’s even more a cancer on the presidency.
Diana West has been out of this particular closet for quite a while. Here's another piece of hers on Certifigate from December 12, 2008:
http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2008/12/12/where_were_you_born,_obama
BUMP!
Try the link again.
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