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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

Hawaii’s Governor Takes On ‘Birthers’ By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

HONOLULU — Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who befriended President Obama’s 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.

“It’s 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. “It’s 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. Obama’s birth on Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapi’olani 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.

“He’s a big boy, he can take sticks and stones, but there’s no reason on Earth to have the memory of his parents insulted by people who’s motivation is solely political,” Mr. Abercrombie said. “Let’s 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: Krankor

I like it.


41 posted on 12/24/2010 2:24:22 PM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Don Corleone

Bingo. Who cares what the BC says? Papa was Kenyan, not a US citizen. Ergo, QED, he cannot be a “natural born citizen.”


42 posted on 12/24/2010 2:25:02 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Sub-Driver

Let’s just hope that in January when he takes over control of the House, Speaker Boehner subpoenas the original long form birth certificate. The courts will not help so everything now depends on Speaker Boehner.


43 posted on 12/24/2010 2:28:46 PM PST by Walts Ice Pick
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To: Sub-Driver

“Let’s put this particular canard to rest.”

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Yeah, let’s do it.


44 posted on 12/24/2010 2:28:51 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: ColdOne

If he knew Obama’s parents he probably knew Obama’s communist drug dealer mentor Frank Marshall Davis too.


45 posted on 12/24/2010 2:30:05 PM PST by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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To: Sub-Driver
I get this vision of the governor, his DA and health/human services honcho and Obama standing around a birth certificate and moaning, "We'd love to show this as proof but we just can't...so it's all their fault!!"
46 posted on 12/24/2010 2:30:49 PM PST by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: Sub-Driver
“Let’s put this particular canard to rest.”

please do

47 posted on 12/24/2010 2:34:52 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Sub-Driver

It is an insult to the American people that the alleged president does not provide proof of his eligibility.

It is an insult to the American people that the “newspaper of record” cannot even bring itself to cover the issue of eligibility without slandering those who put verification over trust in matters of critical importance to the nation’s security.


48 posted on 12/24/2010 2:35:06 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It is an insult to the American people that the alleged president does not provide proof of his eligibility.

It is an insult to the American people that the “newspaper of record” cannot even bring itself to cover the issue of eligibility without slandering those who put verification over trust in matters of critical importance to the nation’s security.


49 posted on 12/24/2010 2:35:11 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Smoke screen diversionary tactic.

He knows there is no BC, or it is incriminating.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

50 posted on 12/24/2010 2:37:09 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: jonrick46

The pot was in there to keep the opium burning... just sayin’.


51 posted on 12/24/2010 2:39:19 PM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport all illegal aliens. Americans demand our jobs back! Whooorah, Arizona!)
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To: Krankor
Obama was born a hermaphrodite.

He may not have been born at all. In fact, he seems more like a character that some anonymous actor is playing.

And if you dig deeply, you find lots of really obvious continuity errors in the script.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

52 posted on 12/24/2010 2:47:00 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gov, I think you’re in for quite a suprise. You’re going to be hearing from obastard’s lawyers soon. They’ve been paid millions so far to stop people from doing what you want to do.


53 posted on 12/24/2010 3:02:13 PM PST by piytar (0's idea of power: the capacity to inflict unlimited pain and suffering on another human being. 1984)
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To: Sub-Driver

Go on, Neil, do it. I would love to be proven wrong. Please! Of course, note the liberal caveat, “Oh if it weren’t for these LAWS, I would prove it to all of you non-believers.”


54 posted on 12/24/2010 3:32:48 PM PST by swatbuznik
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To: LucyT; STARWISE; Nachum; Red Steel; WhizCodger
ping...

Abercrombie says he is now (in effect) a birther and will try to change HI law to prove the “truth” that Obama was born in HI. This rather than simply ask (demand) in private that Obama sign a release of his “vital records”.

Abercrombie admits he wasn't a witness to the immediate events surrounding the birth, but claims that BHO Sr. and SADO brought baby BHO II to social events, but we know that SADO scampered off to Seattle within six weeks after the baby was born.

I think Abercrombie may be trying to blackmail Obama into bailing out HI’s huge public union and entitlement deficits.

Or it could just be that Obama has completed his mission or failed to complete it and must now be removed. I regard Abercrombie and the other long-time HI Marxists to be likely KGB assets, so Putin could even be behind this.

NY Times prints the phrase “long form”:

“Still, questions persist. The certificate number is blacked out on the Internet copy, and Mr. Obama’s detractors are also demanding release of his original long-form birth certificate, which is not a public record in Hawaii.”

55 posted on 12/24/2010 3:35:46 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: highlander_UW

I think this is actually a warning shot across the bow to Obama. Neil Abercrombie is a pure leftist and he knows where the skeletons are buried. He is telling The Boy King that if he strays too far off the reservation in 2011, then his records will be released!

I really wonder how many different people are blackmailing (no racism intended) Obama? Never before in modern history has a world leader had sooooo much about him hidden. From the birth/parentage/adoption issues to the questions about his education (who paid, how did he get into Harvard, etc) to the, shall we say, “lack of female companionship” in his history and the constant presence of Reggie Love, all the way up to the present health issues (cocaine use, Parkinson’s, anti-depressant use)....

I’d be willing to bet that reperations for “Native Hawaiians” ala Pigford will be on the agenda very soon into the New Year. Obama can’t afford for all of his records to come out and Abercrombie knows it!


56 posted on 12/24/2010 3:37:11 PM PST by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know who holds the future!)
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To: VikingMom
I think this is actually a warning shot across the bow to Obama. Neil Abercrombie is a pure leftist and he knows where the skeletons are buried. He is telling The Boy King that if he strays too far off the reservation in 2011, then his records will be released!

This is an interesting view point, indeed!

57 posted on 12/24/2010 3:42:22 PM PST by wintertime (Re: Obama, Rush Limbaugh said, "He was born here." ( So? Where's the proof?))
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To: wintertime

Yes. I agree with you.


58 posted on 12/24/2010 3:49:22 PM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: highlander_UW
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.

Yes that is the $64,000 question. This idiot is Governor and wants legislation to show Obama was born in Hawaii? Why didn't the reporter of this story ask him why Obama won't release all his records?

59 posted on 12/24/2010 3:51:46 PM PST by rolling_stone ( *this makes Watergate look like a kiddie pool*)
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To: Sub-Driver

Abercrombie - now THERE’S someone we can trust!

Met the dude briefly when I lived there decades ago, and you could look right through to the corrupt core with merely a glance.


60 posted on 12/24/2010 3:53:48 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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