There are a few interesting/incriminating bits:
After accepting several records related to Obama’s birth in Hawaii, Mark Dugan, Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer’s chief of staff, moved to overrule the objection and close the board’s meeting.
What records where accepted?
[Secretary of State] Kobach said today that he’s convinced that Obama’s birth certificate on the White House website matches the certified copy from the Hawaii Department of Health.
Kobach seems to be stating that Kansas has received a certified copy from the Hawaii Department of Health. viz "the certified copy".
This makes his "convinced" comment rather odd. Why not a simple declaratory, "the WH BC PDF matches the certified copy"? What is there to be convinced about, either it matches or it doesn't.
Moreover, "matching" is irrelevant. A certified "true and correct copy" is what is needed. The fact that Kobach has made no direct mention of a certified "true and correct copy" tells us everything.
If Kansas had a such a certified copy we wouldn't be hearing about Kobach being "convinced", would we? We wouldn't be hearing that the WH BC PDF "matches", would we? We would be hearing about the certified "true and correct copy" received from HI DOH.
I think it’s funny that this guy spent years of his life on higher education, law school, teaching law, and then elected office just to throw “all that learnin’ away” by using his “belief” as some sort of legal proof.
Dude, you could have skipped all that work at law school and just cut to the chase...your beliefs trump any true legal analysis or documents.
Obama just threw all your hard work under the bus. LOL
I tell ya, I never cease to be amazed at what people won’t sacrifice for King Putt.
“Secretary Kobach received his bachelor of arts degree with highest distinction from Harvard University in 1988. He graduated at the top of his class in the Harvard Government Department. In 1988, the British government awarded him a Marshall Scholarship, which took him to England for post-graduate study. In 1992 he received his doctorate in Political Science from Oxford University. In 1995 he received his J.D. from Yale Law School. While at Yale, he taught undergraduates in the Yale Political Science Department, and in 1994 he won the Prize Teaching Fellowship, an award based on student nominations and faculty review. He also served as notes development editor on the Yale Law Journal.”
Someone, probably the Romney campaign since he's an advisor for them on immigration, likely told him to drop it before the ridicule got too loud.
Sounds to me like Kobach is saying he’s convinced that the WH image matches the certified copy that Hawaii sent Obama. But like you say, the word “convinced” means that he’s not coming right out and saying it. He’s saying that he believes it matches, not that he’s been told it matches. So if he’s been told something, it’s something besides a direct statement that it matches. Like maybe a statement that the INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE RECORD matches. Which is exactly what MDEC was told and it doesn’t mean a thing whether the claims match since the genuine record is not legally valid - all of which has already been pointed out to both Kobach and Schmidt.