Posted on 07/31/2009 8:37:59 PM PDT by freespirited
As time goes on, I'm starting to adopt this position myself.
The only thing weirder than the Birthers are the anti-Birthers, who blame the Birthers for being conspiracy theorists yet actively feed the conspiracy by refusing to call for President Obama to release his birth certificate.The state official in Hawaii who manages such things has reiterated that there is indeed an original birth certificate on file which would confirm President Obama's having been born in Hawaii and that she has seen it, but state law won't allow her to release it unless the president authorizes it.
So what's the problem here? Release the original and let's be done with this madness.
I truly believe that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. All available evidence points to this, and there is no evidence that he was born anywhere else. But as time goes on, I'm increasingly amazed that not only is the call to release Obama's original birth certificate being sustained, the cry actually seems to be gaining momentum.
I believe it was wise for the President to ignore the movement when it started because it simply marginalized the Democrats that created the rumor (yes folks, the story originated and was first propagated by Clinton-supporting blogs), and then various Republicans that jumped on board and then took over the fruitless pursuit. But now the controversy—for reasons I simply cannot fathom—has expanded to alarming proportions.
I have to think that it reached—or will soon reach—a state where it becomes more of a problem to ignore those calling to see the document than it is to ignore them.
Officials in Hawaii have confirmed that the original, long-form paper birth certificate filled out at the time of President Obama's birth exists. The President can easily ask them to release a copy of the document to the media to be photographed at high resolution, where it can be posted on news web sites and blogs around the word and debated and parsed, ultimately shutting down all but the most fringe elements of the debate, those that still believe that 9/11 was an inside job and that Ron Paul would have made a good President.
It only takes a phone call. Do this, Mr. President.
~~PING!
My guess is the better forgery is almost ready.
Alarming! That's cool.
They better not release it because it would stop the questions about when he gave up his citizenship and if he ever bothered to re-establish it.
It certainly would end the pressure the release all the other stuff we have not seen.
Logic?
From Huffpo?
I wonder if Heck might have just frozen over.
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GOOD FOR THEM. ALL ANY of us want is the TRUTH
*tih is agnostic on the BC issue.
I could point out that the only reason it has grown is because Obama has refused and resisted the release of his birth certificate.
But the so-called "birther" movement has to know alter its focus from just the birth certificate but also expose the President's lack of disclosure of his past records that would normally have been released during a campaign, and which most candidates had released upon request, but which Obama has actively worked to keep sealed.
His school records, his travel records, his records from when he was a State Senator. These are an important part of his "record" on which Americans would normally have used to judge his merit and character. He was elected solely on the mythos created by his book(s) and Americans deserve to know the achievements or lack thereof of the man they elected to office.
LOL!
I think he was probably born in Hawaii, since the newspaper noted his birth, but if he does release the long form it will have sections redacted to conceal whatever embarrassing or disqualifying information is there.
And yet the state of Hawaii also calims that it destroyed all its paper records.
Furthermore, they claim that they can't release the birth certificate, yet members of the media (such as The Leprechaun) and others caim to have seen it.
Now, which is it?
Welcome to FR. We can multitask.
Forgers always overlook something. (Ask Dan "the Forger" Rather.)
And, we here at F.R. have a rich history of unmasking fake docs, n'est ce pas?
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I tend to think that Obama prefers to keep alive the birther movement as an attempt to tar conservatives.
Personally, I think Obama will be able to prove that he is a natural born citizen. What really matters is that he, and any and all future Presidents, should have to do so.
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