[Wil H]

So allow me to ask it again.

Can you name anyone who had ever actually contacted someone of authority in his campaign and asked if he would release it?

Since you ask...

Jim Geraghty of National Review has said reporters have indeed asked Obama.

“Reporters have asked for it and been denied, and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public.”

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTgxZmIwNTg0OWVhMWJkODNmZjI4ZjY4Mjg2OWRmNzI=

[aruanan]

Can you name anyone who had ever actually contacted someone of authority in his campaign and asked if he would release it?

And every lawsuit contained a request for it that was denied. In fact, in one of the lawsuits, lawyers for Obama refused the judge's request for these documents within the allotted time period claiming that revelations in them would cause "great embarrassment" for both Obama as well as the DNC.

[Michael Michael]

Since you ask...

Jim Geraghty of National Review has said reporters have indeed asked Obama.

“Reporters have asked for it and been denied, and the state of Hawaii does not make such records public.”

Although this is in the wrong context, you at least provided a straight answer to my question, so for that I thank you.

As for context, in this instance, I'm talking about the long form birth certificate that was demanded after the Obama campaign had already released the copy of his short form.

That's when the lawsuits, petitions, and everything else started flying.

Again, thank you for a straight answer.

[browardchad]

Just to set the record straight, your Geraghty link was not his last word on this issue. The NRO blog post you linked was made on June 9, before the COLB appeared on Daily KOS.

On June 12, after the COLB was posted he made this comment, which concluded:

"Obama himself probably has a dog-eared yellowing copy in a desk drawer somewhere; this document is what he or someone authorized by him was given by the state out of its records. Barring some vast conspiracy within the Hawaii State Department of Health, there is no reason to think his birth certificate would have any different data." 

I don't think he ever changed his position on the issue after that.