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Indiana Jones and the Lost Birth Certificate
Published on January 22, 2011 By Rightwinger In Politics

And thus, does the Quest continue; Hawaii’s brand-spankin’-new governor, Democrat Neil Abercrombie, pledged to bring a swift and decisive end to the stale, virtually-abandoned Obama birth certificate debate.
He dredged it back up for purely political reasons, fearing the issue may somehow affect Obama’s chances in 2012, saying that it could present "political implications that we simply cannot have.”
I can’t see how; after all, he was elected, without it, in 2008; something which, if it had happened in the other direction, would still be bringing unending howls of sputtering, outraged protest from the Left. It's okay for their guy, though.
But anyway, Abercrombie intended to bring an end to all the irksome naysaying of those who doubted Obama’s eligibility.
To this end, he was going to produce, at long last, the actual, official birth certificate of Barack Obama; the one generated by the hospital, upon his birth.
Only one problem: as I write this, Governor Abercrombie can’t find it, either.
An apparently exhaustive search of the Hawaii Department of Health records, and the records of the two possible Honolulu hospitals in question, Queens and Kapiolani Medical Centers (and let me just ask--is there anyone out there who doesn't know for certain, which hospital they were born in? Just sayin') has, shockingly, failed to produce the document.
Remember, upon Obama’s visit to his “home state” in October 2008, Hawaii’s then-governor, Republican Linda Lingle, sealed his records; all of them.
What we have seen from Obama, is a clearly recently-produced “Certification of Live Birth”, circulated in mid-2008, “verified” by decidedly liberal-leaning websites Snopes.com and FactCheck.org, and thusly hailed by those on the Left as the Real Deal. However, the Hawaii Department of Health, itself, has declined to verify the document; so, around it goes.
We’ve also seen photocopied Honolulu newspaper birth announcements, flaunted as irrefutable proof, by Obama supporters. However, it has been speculated—although it does seem unlikely--that his proud grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham, could have simply made an “in-person report” of his birth and presence in-state, even if he had been foreign-born. This form of documentation could, conceivably, have generated both the newspaper announcements and later, the Certificate of Live Birth--but not an official birth certificate.
The proud grandparents....of a grandson born to their America-hating, Comm-symp, leftwing revolutionary daughter--who left Hawaii three weeks after baby Barry's reported birth, to attend college in Seattle--and an absentee, alcoholic, deadbeat dad--who never paid so much as a dime in child support, and also left Hawaii not long after his son's birth, to attend Harvard--of American-hating, revolutionary, Comm-symp ideals.
Who wouldn't be proud, right?
For his part, I doubt Obama really much cares about the issue. He knows the truth, and that he’s probably out in 2013.
Nonetheless, he got in; the damage is done.
In the future, however, We, the People need to be vigilant. Once a thing happens--once the door is opened--it tends to become commonplace; we need to insist upon fealty to Constitutional strictures. If one lacks the proper, official documents, one doesn’t run for President. Period.
It’s not that hard. Like immigration law, it’s already on the books; all we have to do is insist upon its enforcement.
Abercrombie is likely--or should be—now questioning certain things about his Beloved Leader. However, being a liberal Democrat, he is therefore unphased by reality.
He remains confident, buoyed by vague, unconfirmed assurances that someone, sometime, somewhere, recorded Obama’s birth, and stuck it someplace in the archives. Assumedly, the search will continue.
It’s there! It just has to be!
Doesn’t it?


Comments
on Jan 22, 2011

Thanks for the article RightWinger.

For his part, I doubt Obama really much cares about the issue. He knows the truth,

For sure, Obama knows the truth.

Here's an article from AMerican Thinker that sheds more light on the matter.

 

January 17, 2011

What Obama Has Said about His Own Birth

By Jack Cashill

While Democrat Congressman Frank Pallone read the "natural born Citizen" clause of the U.S. Constitution on the House floor last Thursday, a spirited female in the audience shouted out, "Except Obama!  Except Obama!  Help us, Jesus!"

Later that day, NBC's Brian Williams improbably chose to assign blame for the woman's outburst on newly elected House speaker John Boehner.  "How much responsibility do you feel?" Williams asked pointedly. 

"The state of Hawaii has said Obama was born there," said Boehner, who is no more intimate with the "Birther" movement than Williams himself.  "That was good enough for me."

The person Williams should have been asking about "responsibility" is the president.  Obama's conspicuous fabrications over the years have caused even the sober among us to doubt his origins story. 

In September 2009, President Obama addressed the nation's schoolchildren writ large, an innovation that struck many on the right as a wee bit too Big-Brotherly.  In the talk, Obama asked America's students to take personal responsibility.  That was all well enough. 

Missed in the media hubbub, however, was his take on why this could be difficult for some students. "I get it," he told the kiddies.  "I know what that's like.  My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother." 

In his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama made the same claim.  "He had left Hawaii back in 1963," he wrote of Obama Sr., "when I was only two years old." 

When Obama wrote this in Dreams, he may have been relating what he had himself been told.  By 2009, he knew better, but so vested was he in the story, and so useful had it been in his rise, that he continued to dissemble, even before millions of schoolchildren.

There are clues in Dreams, however, which suggest that Obama was creating a fiction for future use that he already knew to be untrue.  He tells of coming across an article from the Honolulu Advertiser celebrating Barack Obama, Sr.'s planned grand tour of mainland universities on his triumphant way to Harvard. 

Obama writes ruefully in Dreams, "No mention is made of my mother or me, and I'm left to wonder whether the omission was intentional on my father's part, in anticipation of his long departure."  What Obama does not mention is that the article was dated June 22, 1962.

Obama was reportedly born on August 4, 1961.  He was not yet a year old at the time Obama Sr. left Hawaii for good.  More to the point, Obama fails to mention that he and his mother, Ann Dunham, were living in Seattle at the time and had been since at least August 19, 1961, the day she enrolled at the University of Washington. 

In short, the family never lived together.  There was no Obama family.  The Obama camp surely knew this by the time he ran for president, but Obama kept dissembling about his origins nonetheless.

Although Obama's African relatives seem to have accepted the president as one of their own, there is even less clarity on the Kenyan side.  According to Dreams, Obama Sr. had children with at least four different women, two of them American, and he occasionally circled back to the first of the four, Kezia. 

Ruth Nidesand, a white American, had two children by Obama Sr., Mark and David, the latter of whom died young in a motorcycle accident.  She was also forced to raise Kezia's two oldest children, just as the woman Obama knows as "Granny," the family storyteller, was forced to raise Obama Sr. as her own.  In another time and place, the Obamas would have had their own reality TV show.

Questions linger about the paternity of many of these offspring.  In Dreams, Obama's cryptic and contrarian Aunt Sarah would tell her presumed nephew, " ... the children who claim to be Obama's are not Obama's."  Obama must have wondered whether she was referring to him. 

Curiously, when Obama found the article about Obama Sr.'s departure, he found it "folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms."  Later in Dreams, in a passage heretofore overlooked, Obama unwittingly reveals that there may have been problems with that birth certificate.

On the occasion of his father's death in 1982, lawyers contacted anyone who might have claim to the estate.  "Unlike my mum," Obama tells his half-sister Auma in Dreams, "Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was." 

Ruth obviously could produce a marriage license and a birth certificate for her son Mark.  Ann Dunham apparently could not do the same for her son Barack, at least not one that could tie him to Obama Sr. -- not even with a potential payoff on the table.

The long form birth certificate could pose a number of problems other than country of origin, including the date of Obama's birth, the state of his birth, and the identity of his father.  Any one of these revelations could unravel the yarn that Obama has been spinning.

These problems derive from the fact that Ann Dunham enrolled at university on August 19, 1961 and returned to Hawaii only after Obama Sr. had left Hawaii for good.  Both of these facts are more firmly established than President Obama's Honolulu birth on August 4, 1961.  In my forthcoming book, Deconstructing Obama, I review these possibilities in some detail. 

The failure of the mainstream media to even address the inconsistencies in Obama's story is downright shameful.  That failure has created a windstorm of curiosity that is becoming increasingly difficult for the media to ignore.  The final responsibility for the outburst in Congress last week is theirs.

Jack Cashill's new book, Deconstructing Obama, can be pre-ordered here, with a special offer for American Thinker readers.

 

on Jan 22, 2011

Hmm...very interesting article. thanks for posting.

So, did Ann Dunham take Barack with her, to Seattle, or did she leave him in the care of her parents? i can't seem to lacate any info on that. This guy could have some serious abandonment issues.

I read Cashill's book, "Hoodwinked", several years ago. In fact, it's right here by the desk; I count it among my favorite "conservative" tomes, and refer back to it often, when I write. I highly recommend it, if you can find it.

on Jan 22, 2011

However, the Hawaii Department of Health, itself, has declined to verify the document; so, around it goes.

Really?

"I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...."

on Jan 22, 2011

He knows the truth, and that he’s probably out in 2013.

Nonetheless, he got in; the damage is done.

In the future, however, We, the People need to be vigilant. Once a thing happens--once the door is opened--it tends to become commonplace; we need to insist upon fealty to Constitutional strictures. If one lacks the proper, official documents, one doesn’t run for President. Period.

Well it happened...for whatever reason(s) the citizens allowed Obama to get elected President of the USA without actually coming up with authentic documentation of his birthplace.

Now, I wonder did we learn a lesson from all this.  Will the people be vigilant and insist upon the fealty of the Constitutional stricutres and require absolute proof of his birth place in the election of 2012? 

It’s not that hard. Like immigration law, it’s already on the books; all we have to do is insist upon its enforcement.

 So true, and you know times are a changing and the masses are waking up and realize being cowtowed to the politically correct crowd isn't doing America any good.

on Jan 22, 2011

To Basmas...

Yes, he said that; but strangely, was not holding the document when he said it, and couldn't specify where it was. You can "say" anything, kind of like Dan Rather did....

It's so funny; what is it with you guys and fake documents? You guys were more than happy to accept Rather's fake Bush National Guard record, too.

Why is Abercrombie still going to all the trouble, then?

on Jan 22, 2011

And the other shoe drops....

 

Abercrombie drops effort to disclose birth certificate info
Hawaii AG tells guv he can't disclose individual's birth documentation without consent
--Honolulu Star-Advertiser


http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/114401004.html

Hawaii Dept of health official dec;ares that Obama's name is indexed in the bound records and available for public viewing....but somehow, no one's ever done that?

on Jan 23, 2011

Rightwinger
To Basmas...

..

It's so funny; what is it with you guys and fake documents? You guys were more than happy to accept Rather's fake Bush National Guard record, too.

Which guys are you exactly referring to?

on Jan 24, 2011

I agree - he is our president and that is the end of it.

But I also support making sure such controversies do not materialize in the future.  Your birth is not an active action on your part, and there is no shame in how you came into being, so hiding something as innocent as a birth certificate seems silly and extreme.  We are not Klingons.  You do not bear the sins of your ancestors.

on Jan 24, 2011

Unless of course you believe in the original sin.

on Jan 24, 2011

Personally I'd be more interested in seeing his college grades. That should be easy if he is as intelligent as his supporters profess. I want to see if my affirmative action tax dollars were well spent or not.

on Jan 24, 2011

Personally I'd be more interested in seeing his college grades.

Ya, me too but it's like these as well as his birth certificate have an iron-tight sealed lock.

on Jan 24, 2011

Personally I'd be more interested in seeing his college grades.

Which reminds me of an email that was circulated months ago but worth bringing up again.....for interest or scrutiny.

VERY QUIETLY OBAMA'S CITIZENSHIP CASE REACHES THE SUPREME COURT

                                  AP -   WASHINGTON   D.C. -
        In a move certain to fuel  the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group  "Americans for Freedom of Information" has Released copies of President Obama's college  transcripts from   Occidental   College . Released today, the transcript  school indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign  student from   Indonesia as an undergraduate. The transcript was  released by   Occidental   College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for  foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student  must claim foreign citizenship.
        This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking. Along with the evidence that he was first born in   Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for   US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim. The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama's legitimacy and qualification to serve as President article titled, "Obama Eligibility Questioned," leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama's first official visit to the U.K. In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups,   Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of   New Jersey . This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualification to serve as president.
        
        Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study  estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past  year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to  block  disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U..S. Attorney general, Eric Holder.  Mr. Holder has refused to comment on  the matter...
         
        LET OTHER FOLKS KNOW THIS NEWS, THE MEDIA WON'T !
          
      Subject: RE: Issue of Passport?
          
        While I've little interest in getting in the middle of the Obama birth issue, Paul Hollrah over at FSM did so  yesterday and believes the issue can be resolved by Obama answering one simple question: What passport did he use when he was shuttling between   New York ,   Jakarta , and   Karachi ?
         
        So how did a young man who arrived in   New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world trip just a month later?         
        And once he was on a plane, shuttling between   New York ,   Jakarta , and   Karachi , what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration?
         
        The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers. It makes the debate over Obama's citizenship a rather short and simple one.         
        Q: Did he travel to   Pakistan in 1981, at age 20?
         A : Yes, by his own admission.
          
        Q: What passport did he travel under?
         A: There are only three possibilities.
            1) He traveled with a   U.S. .. Passport,
            2) He traveled with a  British passport, or
            3) He traveled with an   Indonesia passport.
          
        Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. Passport in 1981?
         A: No. It is not possible.   Pakistan was on the    U.S. .. State Department's "no travel" list  in 1981.
          
        Conclusion: When Obama went to   Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an  Indonesian passport.
         
        If he were traveling with a British passport that would provide proof that he was born in   Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in   Hawaii as he claims. And if he were traveling with an Indonesian passport that would tend to prove that he  relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held, British or American, prior to being adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967.
         
        Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people need to know how he managed to become a "natural born" American citizen between 1981 and 2008..

on Jan 25, 2011

Basmas
Unless of course you believe in the original sin.

Even if you do - then you also believe that all are born with it (except Mary).  Which again is nothing to be concerned about.  We are all born with hearts too and poop chutes.  Neither makes us lovers or ass holes.