You are correct, they are not the same, but they are equally good for the purposes of proving location and date of birth, which is all you need to determine Bambi's eligibility.
I really dont have to go into the differences... You should do your homework
I have done my homework, thank you very much. You obviously have not done yours.
As for the health director...thats simply not what was said.
I gave an accurate paraphrase of what she said.
Saying they have birth records, is not the same as saying they indicate he was born there.
She explicitly said he was born in Hawaii. Don't believe me? Here's a direct quote:
"I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‛i 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."
You can go read the whole press release here:
http://hawaii.gov/health/about/pr/2009/09-063.pdf
As for the cost, talk to Perkins coie
How do you know the money paid to Perkins Cole has anything to do with birther lawsuits?
Here’s the Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle’s statement:
“You know, during the campaign of 2008, I was actually in the mainland campaigning for Senator McCain. This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue. And I think it’s, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this...it’s been established, he was born here.”—Governor Linda Lingle (R)
has the same information as this:
or this:
last i checked, a jpeg is not a valid format for goverment documents. if it is, then why don't we start paying taxes in jpegs