>>A few years ago I wanted a passport. Having no idea where my birth certificate was, I dropped by the city clerk’s office and, for $5, got an official certificate with a seal. No footprints, no doctor’s signature, not even the name of the doctor (I still don’t know who delivered me), no witnesses’ signatures, no witnesses’ names. I had no trouble getting a passport on that basis.<<
Your first name wouldn’t be BARAK, would it Mr. SORETO????? Maybe the certificate with all that stuff is in a filing cabinet in KENYA?????? Maybe it was Dr. Bakumbo who delivered you at the Daktari Clinic?
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Eagle Forgotten: You could easily find out who delivered you by asking the city clerk’s office for a copy of your original birth certificate. You CAN get it, if you ask. The certified copies serve for some purposes, but if you need to see a copy of the original, they will dig it out of the archives and make a copy for you. A copy of the original item. It’s there. It’s history. NO vital records office destroys birth certificates.
IF Obama wanted a copy of his original birth certificate released (that one that Fukino and others claim they SAW), along with all the rest of whatever documents are on file in Hawaii, all he has to do is to AUTHORIZE them to release the documents.
Did you notice that the initial news story did state that Hawaii can’t release them WITHOUT THE PERSON’S CONSENT?
Easy to miss that point, because most news stories omitted that phrase (without the person’s consent) from the “news”. I wonder why!
Simple solution, which will cost the legislature nothing (in time or money): ASK Obama to give his consent. Release the documents. End of story.
It WILL be the end of the story. Right?