Posted on 04/26/2011 1:37:32 PM PDT by Mozilla
Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie famously said he wanted to put the Obama birther issue to rest in December of last year, after he was elected into office. He wanted to show the world the President's original birth certificate.
"Obviously I'm going to do what's legally possible," he told CNN's Ed Henry on December 27 last year. But it's not legally possible for the Governor to release private records of the President or any other Hawaiian citizen except for his own.
Since then, Abercrombie has been silent on this issue. But he spoke to CNN in part 2 of the AC360 Investigation in Hawaii. In an emotional interview, he talked about his memories of President Obama as an infant in Honolulu. Abercrombie, a Democrat, was friends with both Barack Obama Senior and Ann Dunham at the University of Hawaii, and remembers celebrating the birth of their son.
"Of course, we had no idea at the time that the future president of the United States was that little boy, that little baby, and we are very, very happy of course that that took place," Abercrombie told CNN.
Even though the Hawaii governor cannot release President Obama's original birth certificate, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, former director of the Department of Health under Republican Governer Linda Lingle has inspected the document, which is stored in a vault in the Department of Health Building. Dr. Fukino has examined the document twice and in her first on camera interview, tells CNN the document is "absolutely" authentic.
Though there is much focus on the President's original birth certificate, the CNN investigation shows that the certification of live birth released by President Obama in 2008 is the same certificate that is issued to every Hawaiian.
(Excerpt) Read more at ac360.blogs.cnn.com ...
Neither did I. As far as I know, there's the real, actual birth certificate, or there's some other document for bureaucratic convenience that serves the same function for people who...weren't born somewhere where birth certificates are issued, I guess.
Why is this new document stamped April 25 2011?
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