Friend says Abercrombie told him, 'There is no birth certificate!'

During an interview on the KQRS morning radio show on January 20, Mike Evans, a long-time friend of Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, shared a conversation he had with the governor the day prior. The reader is advised to judge for himself the credibility of Evans' account, but he sounds convincing.

Evans, Honolulu born and now a Hollywood-based celebrity journalist, claimed that Abercrombie had promised him that he when he became governor, he planned to find absolute proof that Obama was born in Hawaii.

When Evans spoke to Abercrombie on January 19, Abercrombie reportedly told him that he searched the relevant Hawaii hospitals using his powers as governor, and concluded, according to Evans, "There is no Barack Obama birth certificate in Hawaii, absolutely no proof at all that Obama was born in Hawaii." After Abercrombie made such a fuss about finding the birth certificate, Evans concluded of his friend that he has "got some egg in the face."

Curiously too, when Evans asked Abercrombie when he first encountered the young Barack Obama, Abercrombie reportedly said, "I remember him playing in a T-Ball league," when he was roughly five or six years old.

The reader may recall that Abercrombie had told the Los Angeles Times just before Christmas, "Maybe I'm the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, ‘I was here when that baby was born.'"

A few days later, Abercrombie clarified to Mark Niesse of the Associated Press that he didn't exactly see Obama's parents with their newborn son at the hospital, but that he "remembers seeing Obama as a child with his parents at social events." Of course, Obama Sr. had left for Harvard four years before young Barack was T-Ball eligible.

In the Obama rabbit hole, things do seem to get progressively curiouser and curiouser.

Not to say that I doubt Abercrombie saw the 4-5 year old Barack play in a Tee Ball league in ‘65 or ‘66, but TeeBall wasn’t trademarked until the early ‘70s. The game itself does have an earlier emergence. See Wikipedia entry below

Keep in mind, however, that Abercrombie also recalled attending social events with both parents, when both Sydney and Barack Sr. were long gone from the Island on their separate ways

Wikipedia entry:
Tee Ball trademark was registered with the United States government by Dayton Hobbs[1] in the early 1970s, but the game’s origins date back to at least the 1940s and 50s with several people claiming to be the father of the game. Claude Lewis, director of the Warner Robins, Georgia Recreation Department, formed a tee-ball league in March 1958. 20 children played the first year. Lewis designed rules for the new game and mailed the rule books out to rec departments all over the country and overseas.

Albion, Michigan claims to be the place of invention for the sport in 1956,[2] though Starkville, Mississippi makes a similar claim that Tee Ball was invented in their town in 1961. According to the Starkville Rotary Club’s website: “In 1961, when it was apparent that younger children needed some way to participate in the program, Rotarians Dr. Clyde Muse and W. W. Littlejohn devised the game of T-Ball and added it to the summer baseball program.”[3] Dr. Hobbs has credited the United States Navy with spreading the game overseas. U.S. presidents since Ronald Reagan have hosted T-Ball games on the South Lawn of the White House]

Doesn’t matter if I listen or not. It fits with what most people suspect. However.......unless he has documentation or audio of Abercrombie saying that....it’s hearsay.

It's not hearsay to Mike Evans. He got it directly from the horse's mouth Abercrombie. If you don't want to listen to the audio,... I'll put a transcript on the thread for others. The first speaker is Evans.

TRANSCRIPT. THIS IS THE ROUGH, UNCORRECTED TRANSCRIPT. I’M JUST PUTTING IT UP HERE W/O HTML FORMATTING.

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First Speaker: I have a personal interest so I thought I’d share it with you. Former U.S. Congressman from Hawaii Neal Abercrombie has been a friend of mine for decades. In fact, when I first met Neal he was driving a cab in Honolulu.

Well, Neal and I spent a lot of time together in Washington, D.C. during Obama’s inauguration. Neal told me then that he was gonna run for governor of Hawaii, that he had…, that, that he’d had enough of being a U.S. Congressman. He also told me that…stories … he had told me many times after Barack became famous, that he was in college going to the University of Hawaii, he was a friend of Barack Obama’s dad and that he remembers Barack Obama as a little kid. He used to call him “Barry.”

In fact, I did a TV interview with, uh, Abercrombie at CSPAN the day after the inauguration and we had to … we had to stop twice because he referred to the President as Barry which he … after he did he said, “I can’t do that, I gotta call him Mr. President.” Well, when Neal promised me that when he became governor, he was going to cut through all the red tape, he was going to get Obama’s birth certificate once-and-for-all and end this stupid controversy, th.. that he was not born in the United States.

“Yesterday talking in Neal’s office, Neal says that he searched everywhere using his power as governor at the [I didn’t understand this] Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Queen’s Hospital, the only place that kids were born in Hawaii back when Barack was born,

… there is no Barack Obama birth certificate in Hawaii.

Second Speaker: Really?

First Speaker: Absolutely no proof, at all, that he was born in Hawaii.

Third Speaker: Wow!

First Speaker: Now he went out, he LOVES Obama. I mean he purposely did this to get rid of that, that question. Now, got some egg in the face. I mean now he admits publicly that there is no birth certificate.

Second Speaker: Well,… there might be an addendum to that. There is the story there is a birth announcement. But it’s been explaned. His grandparents could called the newspaper and said, ‘Hey! He, we kn…, our grandchild was born. And ah… he didn’t have to be born in Hawaii for that. So its raising the issue again.”

First Speaker: Absolutely!

Second Speaker: … after it seemed to be put to bed.

First Speaker: And I asked him, I go, “Well, when do you remember when do you remember Barack? When’s your first memory?” And he goes, ‘I remember him playing, like, in the T-ball league.’ And I go, “Well, when he was, like, five or six.” And he goes, “Something like that.” And I go, “Well, what about before that?” And he goes, “Well, I don’t really remember him much before that.” which I thought was very odd.
Second Speaker: Really?

First Speaker: Anyway.

Second Speaker: I have a question for you.

First Speaker: Yeah?

Second Speaker: According to …ah, ah, … federal law, and I don’t know constitution law, but I assume it would be … ah … why is he allowed to be president of the United States then if he can’t prove he is a U.S. citizen?

First Speaker: Well that’s … that’s…

Second Speaker: Was he born here? That’s the big question. [This may not be quite right. I had trouble understanding.] That’s weird.
First Speaker: And now now Abercrombie is the first to say that he he, that Abercrombie is a Obama lover …

Second Speaker: Right

First Speaker: … that he’s concerned that … that is really going to be an issue during the election, re-election.
Second Speaker: So it has taken off as a, a big story again, huh?
First Speaker: Yes.

Second Speaker: Well, well, what’s interesting about it is that this guy attacked people who questioned that he was born in Hawaii just a few weeks ago.

First Speaker: Neal did.

Second Speaker: Yes.

First Speaker: Yeah, I mean … I’m tellin’ ya’. Neal and I are buddies and during this whole inauguration when I was in Washington for those a ten days, I spent a lot of time with Neal, and anytime anybody would come up and bring this up, you’re right, Neal was almost militant about it. “I remember him as a kid. He’s from Hawaii, born and raised …“ so, needless to say, I’m sure he was shocked more than anybody by this whole thing.

Second Speaker: Don’t you have to produce … papers that say you were

First Speaker: You’d think so. You’d have to, wouldn’t cha’?

Second Speaker: Well, there’s been a certificate of Live Birth, but that’s being questioned too, because you don’t have to … it’s not the official Birth Certificate.

First Speaker: There’d have to be one at the hospital, signed by the doctor certifying birth by a … a birth. And there isn’t that.

Second Speaker: You’re kidding me.

First Speaker: It’s like aaaa… baptism papers. It’s not worth the paper it’s written on, really.

Second Speaker: Well, Mike, how hard would it be to find out what doctors were on then.

First Speaker: Apparently he can’t find any of that … that says that they were there.

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