CNN chief: Obama birth story 'dead'(2009)

You definitely need a valid BC to obtain a drivers license.

And he would have gotten one long before the "oh, Hawaii went digital and the dog ate all the BCs." Back in the day, I doubt they would have questioned a birthplace or who's the daddy as they were only interested in the birth date. It would be on file somewhere unless, of course, that one application was lost like his kindergarten file was.

But you're right. Does he ever mention a car in Dream? Everyone remembers their first car. But look where he has lived. He could walk everywhere he needed to go in Hawaii. His college and career days were in big cities with public transportation. Later, in DC, again with public transportation and chauffeurs.

what records department just up and decides to destroy paper records? Converting old ones to electronic format is common now, but I’ve never in the life of me heard of people whose job it is to MAINTAIN historic records doing something as assinine as destroying the originals afterwards. Wouldn’t they, at the least, make sure everything was on microfiche or scanned first?

I used to work in the county clerks office. Back in the mid-80's there was grant money to put all the records on microfilm. The idea was so there would be a backup copy (you know so the dog wouldn't eat the records or a flood or fire wouldn't destroy them or they mysteriously got lost or someone stole a page...). The clerks would have to manually take apart the big record books, lay the pages on the photocopy machine, take the pic and put the pages back in the book. Since it was done manually, there would be human error. Of course, if his records were "skipped" that would be just one more interesting coinky-dink in the ever growing list of ooops, lost the records excuses. Now, if they somehow managed to "skip" his entry in the index book as well, well.... Besides, there was a control for which side of the paper was being copied so if you skipped a page you know. An even or odd page number thing and a job start and stop something, can't remember exactly. Bottom line, yes, there should be a microfilm back up copy of the original records that was made long before they went digital in 2001.

And you’re right. The Almighy Keepers of the Records get very anal about “their” records. Destroying records is just not in their DNA. Sure, store old ones in the basement but they are NEVER destroyed. It simply isn’t done. No way, no how. Ain’t gonna happen.

One thing that always stood out to me related to the BC issue is that I don't believe he even has a drivers license. I have never seen him drive any vehicle (other than a golf cart) in the past or the present. You definitely need a valid BC to obtain a drivers license.

Obama voted for a Federal law in 2005 that requires states to verify the validity of birth certificates with the issuing agencies when they are used to obtain a drivers license. How odd, that Obama's issuing agency REFUSES to verify the validity of his allged certification of live birth. Funny how Obama seems to be exempt from the very standard of identification that HE voted for.

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