NOT true. Janice Okubo specifically stated, later in that same article that you linked, that she cannot say WHAT that digital image represents.
“Still, she acknowledges: ‘I don’t know that it’s possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the IMAGE ON THE SITE represents.’”
Leaving out that qualification by Okubo is what’s known as a lie of omission.
The HDOH specifically and always have avoided saying that the photoshopped DIGITAL IMAGE of what FactCheck BLOG, a partisan blog, purports to be a photograph of a 3-D document that their representatives photographed in Chicago in March, 2008, is AUTHENTIC.
Neither did the HDOH EVER authenticate the information that’s on that digital image, which is NOT evidentiary proof of anything. A digital image posted on a website is not and NEVER CAN BE a “valid Hawaii State Birth Certificate”. It’s an impossibility. A digital image on the Internet CANNOT BE a three-dimensional, certified, embossed, authenticated paper document. A digital image is a bunch of magnetic bits; it’s not anything that ANY government entity or even private entity would EVER accept as proof of anything.
I know it; astute freepers know it; Obama knows it; Janice Okubo knows it; Fukino knows it; the world knows it; and jamese777 knows it, too.
The HDOH NEVER said, EVER, that they produced the supposed underlying paper COLB for the Obama campaign in June 2007.
btw, as I’m sure you know, Politifact is a sister organization of and as partisan as FactCheck blog.
NOT true. Janice Okubo specifically stated, later in that same article that you linked, that she cannot say WHAT that digital image represents.
“Still, she acknowledges: ‘I don’t know that it’s possible for us to even say beyond a doubt what the IMAGE ON THE SITE represents.’”
Leaving out that qualification by Okubo is what’s known as a lie of omission.
The HDOH specifically and always have avoided saying that the photoshopped DIGITAL IMAGE of what FactCheck BLOG, a partisan blog, purports to be a photograph of a 3-D document that their representatives photographed in Chicago in March, 2008, is AUTHENTIC.
Neither did the HDOH EVER authenticate the information that’s on that digital image, which is NOT evidentiary proof of anything. A digital image posted on a website is not and NEVER CAN BE a “valid Hawaii State Birth Certificate”. It’s an impossibility. A digital image on the Internet CANNOT BE a three-dimensional, certified, embossed, authenticated paper document. A digital image is a bunch of magnetic bits; it’s not anything that ANY government entity or even private entity would EVER accept as proof of anything.
I know it; astute freepers know it; Obama knows it; Janice Okubo knows it; Fukino knows it; the world knows it; and jamese777 knows it, too.
The HDOH NEVER said, EVER, that they produced the supposed underlying paper COLB for the Obama campaign in June 2007.
btw, as I’m sure you know, Politifact is a sister organization of and as partisan as FactCheck blog.
Since the former Governor of Hawaii and the former Director of Health for Hawaii have confirmed that Obama was born in Hawaii and since the information on a COLB comes from the original long form, this point seems rather moot.
“The state of Hawaii has said that the president was born there. That’s good enough for me.”—John Boehner, Speaker of the House.
Here’s a link to the testimony of Dr. Chiyome Fukino before the Hawaii Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary and Government Operations. Please note her
statement: “...despite the fact that the President posted a copy of the certificate on his former campaign website.”
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/Testimony/SB2937_TESTIMONY_JGO_02-23-10_LATE.pdf
And here’s a link to another 2009 interview with Janice Okubo, Director of Communications for the Hawaii Department of Health. Please note her statement that the president’s posted copy of his COLB should have ended the conspiracy theorists.
“It’s crazy,” said Janice Okubo, director of communications for the Hawaii Department of Health. “I don’t think anything is ever going to satisfy them.”
Okubo, who said that she gets weekly questions from Obama ‘Birthers’ that are “more like threats,” explained that the certificate of live birth reproduced by Obama’s campaign should have debunked the conspiracy theories. “If you were born in Bali, for example,” Okubo explained, “you could get a certificate from the state of Hawaii saying you were born in Bali. You could not get a certificate saying you were born in Honolulu. The state has to verify a fact like that for it to appear on the certificate. But it’s become very clear that it doesn’t matter what I say. The people who are questioning this bring up all these implausible scenarios. What if the physician lied? What if the state lied? It’s just become an urban legend at this point.”
http://washingtonindependent.com/51489/birther-movement-picks-up-steam
I’m certain that if there were ever to be a deposition taken or sworn testimony in a court of law or testimony under oath before a congressional committee, Dr. Fukino, Janice Okubo, former Governor Lingle and state Registrar Dr. Onaka could speak directly to the Obama COLB image and its relationship to the hard copy in their files.