What is it about the long form? I know that you have more information on it, but is it something that people can get? When I joined the military I wrote to the state of New York for my birth certificate and they send the short form. Could I have requested the long form????? I don’t think that you can just get your long form anytime you want. I don’t get this. The short form has the day you were born and what state you were born in. I saw Obama’s short form and it looks EXACTLY like mine except different state.
Its a case of grasping for straws. Some Birthers hope some embarrassing data on the long form might be in the long form. For example, it might say Obama is a Muslim.
I think that's an "it depends" matter. I got one for my wife, not intentionally, but needed in order to prove to the DMV that she was a legal resident, and therefore entitled to a driver's license renewal. We applied to the County of her birth, gave her full name, birthdate, parents names, and paid $10 for what ended up being a photocopy on nice paper stock, embossed, and marked as a true copy of the vital record on file.
An adoptee is apt to have a different reaction, just to pick one example. But given the certainty of parentage his assertion of being born in a Honolulu hospital, and absence of any adoption in Obama's life story, he should be able to get a copy of his record, that resembles the record produced by the Nordyke twins.