Posted on 04/27/2011 7:00:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Here’s the long-form birth certificate, so birthers can get to work on explaining why we now need a photograph of President Obama’s parents standing in front of Kapiolani hospital with a copy of the August 4, 1961 edition of the Honolulu Star Advertiser in one hand and a complete genome in the other.
Here’s White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer’s full statement on the matter:
In 2008, in response to media inquiries, the President’s campaign requested his birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. The state sent the campaign the President’s birth certificate, the same legal documentation provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state, and the campaign immediately posted it on the internet. That birth certificate can be seen here (PDF).
When any citizen born in Hawaii requests their birth certificate, they receive exactly what the President received. In fact, the document posted on the campaign website is what Hawaiians use to get a driver’s license from the state and the document recognized by the Federal Government and the courts for all legal purposes. That’s because it is the birth certificate. This is not and should not be an open question.
The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country. Therefore, the President directed his counsel to review the legal authority for seeking access to the long form certificate and to request on that basis that the Hawaii State Department of Health make an exception to release a copy of his long form birth certificate. They granted that exception in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting. President Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate can be seen here (PDF):
At a time of great consequence for this country – when we should be debating how we win the future, reduce our deficit, deal with high gas prices, and bring stability to the Middle East, Washington, DC, was once again distracted by a fake issue. The President’s hope is that with this step, we can move on to debating the bigger issues that matter to the American people and the future of the country.
And here’s the White House’s correspondence with the Hawaii State Department of Health.
What else is happening today? Donald Trump is going to New Hampshire.
Everyone can view what the National Review’s Daniel Foster calls the Long Form Birth Certificate here :
and here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate.pdf
It’s the COLB not the long form Birth cert
Utter, unmitigated BS. A cover-up of gargantuan proportions.
If the father is not a US Citizen, then the child is not a “natural born citizen”
Where was his daddy born? was his momma a US citizen when he was born? Why blur or confuse the distinction between NATIVE born—and Natural Born citizen? I find 0 evidence that this frauds’ allegiance is to the United States alone. He has born fruit that suggests he is anything other than a US citizen Anything other than a Christian. I believe he is an Atheist,A Communist,A Muslim, A Manchurian Candidate, a LIAR, a REPROBATE.Anything but a Patriotic American.
The questions that now beg answers as I see them are:
Why did he not release this years ago?
Why did he spend millions to keep this under wraps until now?
And the larger question... Just what does it take to be a legal, natural born citizen? And what about that 14th Amendment to the constitution and the “subject to the jurisdiction” thing really mean?
That larger one still needs to be addressed in the immigration issue.
This IS the same document he released on his website in 2008. Nothing to see here, folks. It solves NOTHING.
Ok, so let me see if I have this correct. They just admitted that the COLB they have been saying was official and legit for the last years was indeed a fake, right?
No. The question now is (if this thing is legit) why is someone born to a Kenyan father a natural born citizen?
Look at the first of the two links. It is not the COLB. It is an attested copy of the original birth certificate, signed by BO’s mother and by the attending physician.
WTF?
I guess he really does think we are that stupid. . . . .
He got elected, didn’t he? Of course he KNOWS we’re stupid.
When did African become a Race?
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in the gaps left by the Constitution. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are “citizens of the United States at birth:”
•Anyone born inside the United States *
•Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person’s status as a citizen of the tribe
•Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
•Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
•Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
•Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
•Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
•A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
The law is pretty clear and settled on that one. He was born in the US, and one parent was an American citizen. He is a native born American citizen.
It shows the hospital in Hawaii where he was born.
I agree with you, but that was changed by a Supreme Court ruling near the turn of the century. I think its a lousy, outlier decision. BUT, you and I are not going to win that argument.
OOOOH, That was brutal (and true).
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