Hawaii’s Governor Takes On ‘Birthers’

New York Times ^

[Sub-Driver]

Hawaii’s Governor Takes On ‘Birthers’ By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

HONOLULU — Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who befriended President Obama’s parents when they were university students here, has been in office for less than three weeks. But he is so incensed over the “birthers” — conspiracy theorists who assert Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and challenge his right to be president — that he is already seeking ways to change Hawaiian law or regulation to allow him to release additional proof that the president was born in a hospital here in 1961.

“It’s an insult to his mother and to his father, and I knew his mother and father — they were my friends, and I have an emotional interest in that,” Gov. Abercrombie said in a telephone interview late Thursday night. “It’s an emotional insult, it is disrespectful to the president, it is disrespectful to the office.”

Mr. Abercrombie, who represented Honolulu in Congress until leaving Washington to run for governor, said he has initiated conversations with his attorney general and his health secretary about how he can make public more explicit documentation of Mr. Obama’s birth on Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapi’olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu. He said he has done so of his own accord, without any request from the president or the White House, which declined to comment.

“He’s a big boy, he can take sticks and stones, but there’s no reason on Earth to have the memory of his parents insulted by people who’s motivation is solely political,” Mr. Abercrombie said. “Let’s put this particular canard to rest.”

[highlander_UW]

Instead of changing the law, why don't you just ask Obama to authorize the release of the records? After all, if you're such a friend of the family I'm sure Obama would happily comply.

[9422WMR]

Easy enough, show the long form!
What’s the problem here?

[FTJM]

Ah, is that the latest? It's an emotional insult so the law must be changed. UFB.

Abercrombie is a joke.

[biggredd1]

hey abercrombie, just shut up and produce the evidence.

[Michael Barnes]

There is a simple answer here; Let’s hold Obama to the same standards John McCain was held to. He provided proof.

[JPG]

Ambercrombie was well know at the UH-Manoa as a Marxist rabble-rouser who was very high on communism and very down on America and nothing has changed. Neil, lets see the long form BC. Obama has spent over 1M for lawyers to keep it hidden. Why? Let us see ALL the info it contains. There is something rotten in Denmark...and Honolulu.

[Parley Baer]

“There is a simple answer here; Let’s hold Obama to the same standards John McCain was held to. He provided proof.”

Exactly. This should have done before he was sworn into office.

[FrankR]

New law? Sounds like he's stalling for time to cook up some documentation...which won't prove any more than the phony B.C. obama posted during the election.

Abercrumbum...show the long form, or shuttup. We've had enough ruse concerning this jerk in the White House, and we're certainly not going to take anything a old retread hippie marxist has to say about it...not to mention a "democrat', which is a synonym for "liar".

Hundreds of people have checked the hospitals, schools, etc., with almost no mention anywhere of BO's background. So unless this hippie fraud is going to print them up, like obama does money, it's just another obamanation.

[Vaquero]

as far as I am concerned a foreigner from Kenya is the pretender of what he considers a throne.

lets see the documentation dooooooshbag.

[Art in Idaho]

Interesting one of his first comments is about Obama's eligibility to be POTUS.

Hey Neil, all your buddy Barack has to do is Free the Long Form! Now tell me, why won't he do that? A very simple solution, no? Wouldn't you do that? I would. Then it's done. Period. But he won't do that. Don't you ever wonder why not?

[ColdOne]

“It’s an insult to his mother and to his father, and I knew his mother and father That tells me all I need to know about this guy.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

The more the anti-Birthers posture and postulate....the more people realize that Obama was not born in one of the 57 states.

[Don Corleone]

O’s father was a KENYAN. Argument over!

[ColdOne]

He’s a big boy Bwahahaha....... That is spot on. He is not a man!

[IMR 4350]

Doesn’t make any difference where he was born.

He was born a duel citizen at best.

There is no way possible for anyone born a citizen/subject of another country to be a NBC of the USA, unless you redefine the meaning of the term NBC.

[wintertime]

Well....Since this is sooooooooo straight forward...

RELEASE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

( and a few other **common** and simple to access documents that unanointed Americans routinely release for many reasons! )

[chicken head]

bring in the camaras, lets do it right— i personally dont think he has the balls— put up or shut up

[Cyclops08]

How typical, He is so incensed at the mere accusation, he will do anything EXCEPT show the long form.

Like an outraged liberal is anything new.