[Red Steel]

This has the votes to pass this time and Bennett is a putz for Obama.

Officials in Hawaii released a short-form version of the birth certificate when the issue first arose before the 2008 election.

Not true. Hawaii didn't release squat. They never said what Obama put on the Internet was issued by them.

[jamese777]

Not true. Hawaii didn’t release squat. They never said what Obama put on the Internet was issued by them.

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But they did say that the hard copy of a Hawaii COLB released to the St. Petersburg Times newspaper from Obama’s Chicago office was “a valid Hawaii State Birth Certificate.”—Janice Okubo, Director of Communications, Hawaii Department of Health
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jun/27/obamas-birth-certificate-part-ii/