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Hawaii’s Governor Takes On ‘Birthers’
New York Times ^
Posted on 12/24/2010 12:47:13 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Hawaiis Governor Takes On Birthers By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
HONOLULU Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who befriended President Obamas parents when they were university students here, has been in office for less than three weeks. But he is so incensed over the birthers conspiracy theorists who assert Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and challenge his right to be president that he is already seeking ways to change Hawaiian law or regulation to allow him to release additional proof that the president was born in a hospital here in 1961.
Its an insult to his mother and to his father, and I knew his mother and father they were my friends, and I have an emotional interest in that, Gov. Abercrombie said in a telephone interview late Thursday night. Its an emotional insult, it is disrespectful to the president, it is disrespectful to the office.
Mr. Abercrombie, who represented Honolulu in Congress until leaving Washington to run for governor, said he has initiated conversations with his attorney general and his health secretary about how he can make public more explicit documentation of Mr. Obamas birth on Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu. He said he has done so of his own accord, without any request from the president or the White House, which declined to comment.
Hes a big boy, he can take sticks and stones, but theres no reason on Earth to have the memory of his parents insulted by people whos motivation is solely political, Mr. Abercrombie said. Lets put this particular canard to rest.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; hawaii; naturalborncitizen; obama
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To: Sub-Driver
Instead of changing the law, why don't you just ask Obama to authorize the release of the records? After all, if you're such a friend of the family I'm sure Obama would happily comply.
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posted on
12/24/2010 12:49:36 PM PST
by
highlander_UW
(Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
To: Sub-Driver
Easy enough, show the long form!
What’s the problem here?
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posted on
12/24/2010 12:49:59 PM PST
by
9422WMR
(Illegal is not a race)
To: Sub-Driver
Ah, is that the latest? It's an emotional insult so the law must be changed. UFB.
Abercrombie is a joke.
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posted on
12/24/2010 12:51:46 PM PST
by
FTJM
To: Sub-Driver
hey abercrombie, just shut up and produce the evidence.
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posted on
12/24/2010 12:52:52 PM PST
by
biggredd1
To: Sub-Driver
There is a simple answer here; Let’s hold Obama to the same standards John McCain was held to. He provided proof.
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posted on
12/24/2010 12:54:25 PM PST
by
Michael Barnes
(Guilty of being White.)
To: highlander_UW
Ambercrombie was well know at the UH-Manoa as a Marxist rabble-rouser who was very high on communism and very down on America and nothing has changed. Neil, lets see the long form BC. Obama has spent over 1M for lawyers to keep it hidden. Why? Let us see ALL the info it contains. There is something rotten in Denmark...and Honolulu.
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posted on
12/24/2010 12:55:23 PM PST
by
JPG
(There is hope for America and her name is Sarah.)
To: Michael Barnes
“There is a simple answer here; Lets hold Obama to the same standards John McCain was held to. He provided proof.”
Exactly. This should have done before he was sworn into office.
To: Sub-Driver
New law? Sounds like he's stalling for time to cook up some documentation...which won't prove any more than the phony B.C. obama posted during the election.
Abercrumbum...show the long form, or shuttup. We've had enough ruse concerning this jerk in the White House, and we're certainly not going to take anything a old retread hippie marxist has to say about it...not to mention a "democrat', which is a synonym for "liar".
Hundreds of people have checked the hospitals, schools, etc., with almost no mention anywhere of BO's background. So unless this hippie fraud is going to print them up, like obama does money, it's just another obamanation.
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posted on
12/24/2010 12:57:20 PM PST
by
FrankR
(The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
To: Sub-Driver
as far as I am concerned a foreigner from Kenya is the pretender of what he considers a throne.
lets see the documentation dooooooshbag.
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:00:09 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: FTJM
Interesting one of his first comments is about Obama's eligibility to be POTUS.
Hey Neil, all your buddy Barack has to do is Free the Long Form! Now tell me, why won't he do that? A very simple solution, no? Wouldn't you do that? I would. Then it's done. Period. But he won't do that. Don't you ever wonder why not?
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:00:28 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
To: Sub-Driver
Its an insult to his mother and to his father, and I knew his mother and father That tells me all I need to know about this guy.
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:00:41 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(Merry Christmas and God Bless You and Yours)
To: Sub-Driver
The more the anti-Birthers posture and postulate....the more people realize that Obama was not born in one of the 57 states.
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:01:01 PM PST
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(Whenever something is "Global"...it means its bad for America)
To: Sub-Driver
O’s father was a KENYAN. Argument over!
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:02:58 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Sub-Driver
Hes a big boy Bwahahaha....... That is spot on. He is not a man!
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:03:06 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(Merry Christmas and God Bless You and Yours)
To: Sub-Driver
Doesn’t make any difference where he was born.
He was born a duel citizen at best.
There is no way possible for anyone born a citizen/subject of another country to be a NBC of the USA, unless you redefine the meaning of the term NBC.
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:03:06 PM PST
by
IMR 4350
To: Sub-Driver
Well....Since this is sooooooooo straight forward...
RELEASE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!
( and a few other **common** and simple to access documents that unanointed Americans routinely release for many reasons! )
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posted on
12/24/2010 1:04:11 PM PST
by
wintertime
(Re: Obama, Rush Limbaugh said, "He was born here." ( So? Where's the proof?))
To: Sub-Driver
bring in the camaras, lets do it right— i personally dont think he has the balls— put up or shut up
To: Sub-Driver
How typical, He is so incensed at the mere accusation, he will do anything EXCEPT show the long form.
Like an outraged liberal is anything new.
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