[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks for your reply. I do think that if a Conservative looked in Hawaii's records and announced that nothing was there, somebody in Hawaii would concoct an issue of unauthorized usage of the system in the first place, unless that person had a legitimate business reason to search the records (data privacy laws). Unfortunately, having access and curiosity is not enough, a person must have a legitimate business reason to do the query, too. Unless they are in a fraud division, and it's their job to follow up on suggestions of fraudulent use of Hawaii's documents, then it would probably still be used against somebody.

I do recall reading somewhere that Kos claims to have gotten the information from Obama, or with Obama's permission? If the Smears site only claims that the image is an example of right-wing smears and makes no claim about the authenticity of the document, what about Kos claiming that they got it legitimately from Obama or on his behalf, or did I get that wrong?

-PJ

[Polarik]

The Kod claims that someone with the Obama campaign emailed the image to him. If you go back to the first page on Fight The Smears, there's a link to the page where the image is posted. It reads:

SMEAR: Barack Obama can't produce his birth certificate

Barack Obama was born in America, and his story could only happen here. But some smear-mongers claim he can't produce his birth certificate and that he is not a natural-born citizen.

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Barack Obama has made his birth certificate public and it can be seen here.

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[HawaiianGecko]

  "what about Kos claiming that they got it legitimately from Obama or on his behalf, or did I get that wrong?"

Thanks in return.  I personally don't know if they claimed they got it from Obama, or for that matter actually got it from him or his staff.  I most certainly believe what you say.  My only question is why a rational person as yourself would believe anything the Daily Kos claims.

"a person must have a legitimate business reason to do the query, too."   No prosecutor would go after this person.  He might get fired, but who would really care.  They would be instantly famous for for taking down a presidential candidate and would be able to leverage this into money.