Posted on 06/15/2018 1:50:09 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
Dan Pfeiffer, former assistant and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, thinks he knows the exact date the modern era of fake news was born: April 27, 2011.
“I had walked into the briefing room that morning with 50 copies of Barack Obama’s birth certificate,” Pfeiffer recalls in a memoir, “Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump,” set to be published next week. “So we could prove once and for all the man who was in his third year as president after winning an historic electoral landslide was an American citizen and eligible to be president.”
According to Pfeiffer, Obama first raised the idea to release his birth certificate to him while walking to the Oval Office.
“Maybe we should put the birth certificate out and be done with this,” Obama said.
“But you know we can’t do that, right?’” Pfeiffer responded.
Obama said he agreed, but “I could tell he didn’t really mean it,” Pfeiffer writes.
A few weeks later on a fundraising trip to Chicago, Obama spent the night at his home.
“Whenever he was home, often alone, he would root through all his stuff; on this particular trip, he was going through a box and found what he believed was his birth certificate,” Pfeiffer writes. “To this day, it isn’t clear whether he stumbled upon this document or went looking for it. I have always suspected the latter.”
“Excited about his find,” Obama brought it back to the White House and showed it to White House counsel Bob Bauer.
“Bauer took one look at what Obama had in his hand and knew it wasn’t his actual birth certificate,” Pfeiffer recalls. “Instead the president had found a ceremonial document sold in hospital gift shops.
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Zullo and Gallup’s seem convinced that someone will flip soon.
I don’t think so.
But it made me think that the whole we found a latent fingerprint on one of the layers is just a bluff to try and scare someone.
BTW, Zullo said Jack Maskell is an Obama appointee.
But Maskell has been with the Congressional Research Service for years before Obama became President.
I didn’t question the hospital name. Look at the race box on this. I’m saying in 1961 there were only two choices. Caucasion or negro. No “ Native American, no Hawaiian, no African, no French, no German......you get my drift.
Here is the 1961 coding manual for birth certificates. Page 11 lists the races for the child based on the race of the parent.
https://myveryownpointofview.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/coding-and-punching-geographic-and-personal-particulars-for-births-occurring-in-1961.pdf
Hmmm. Well, on the 1959 cert, I only saw a box for Mom and Dad’s race. Even with the 11 codes in the ‘61 guide book, I don’t see “African” anyplace. Actually, I lived on Oahu ‘57-59. First in Manoa Valley then in Pearl City. Dad was Navy. Then I was Navy. Then youngest daughter was Navy....
Somewhat related:
"The code for this item is from the information given for race of parents. The race classification of each parent must be considered separately in coding the race of the child."
It is not possible to code the child's race as Japanese or Chinese or whatever if the those entries are not in the boxes for race of parent.
And further down on the page under the heading "Determining race of parent" - item (3) says:
"If the racial entry is "C," "Col.," "Black," "brown," or "A.A.,"Afro-American" and the birthplace is the United States consider the parent's race as Negro. If the birthplace of the parent is not in the United States code as other nonwhite."
So the clearly they drew a distinction between Blacks born in the U.S. and those born somewhere else.
In the 1962 Kenya census under race - "African" is one of the categories.
It seems reasonable that a Black man from Kenya would list his race as "African".
Of course, this could be a clever photoshop, but it looks to me like totally like Barry smirking behind that mask!
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