Yes, Obama Was Born In The United States
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Hawaii
I doubt this will quell the conspiracy crowd, but one can hope…
The state health director said yesterday she has personally seen and verified Sen. Barack Obama’s original birth certificate in an effort to address numerous requests for the document.Obama, who is running against Sen. John McCain for president, posted on his Web site the birth certificate showing Honolulu as his birthplace.
State law prohibits the release of a birth certificate except to a person seeking his or her own certificate and the person’s spouse, parent and legal guardian.
But health officials have been receiving numerous e-mail and phone requests for the document, according to Janice Okubo, Heath Department spokeswoman.
Health Director Chiyome Fukino said she and the vital statistics registrar viewed and verified Obama’s birth certificate.
“No state official, including Gov. Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawaii,” Fukino said.
So are we done with this? Can I stop seeing comments pop up at Donklephant from people claiming to know “the real truth” about Obama?
I’m not holding my breath.
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November 1st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
If you read the original article, what you linked to is not what was actual stated by the Hawaii officials.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881031064
“Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said today she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original birth certificate.”
They went on to indicate they could not view the document because “state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.” To ANYONE, which includes them.
I believe Obama is a natural-born citizen, which is what makes his refussal to just authorize the release and end this debate all the more puzzling.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Here is the exact quote from Fukino, “I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures. No state official, including Governor Linda Lingle, has ever instructed that this vital record be handled in a manner different from any other vital record in the possession of the State of Hawai‘i.”
No one ever doubted they had it. They are acting has if that settled the dispute. The dispute wasn’t that they had Obama’s birth certificate but whether that birth certificate indicated he was born in Hawaii or was born to an Hawaiin citizen abroad. Hawaii law states that if a Hawaiian cictizen has a child abroad that citizen can request a certification of birth be issued in Hawaii. That is exactly what challengers of Obama’s natural born status have alleged.
The statement by the Hawaii officials fails to address that.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Justin, Justin, Justin. So young. So naive. To believe that mere facts would stop the conspiracy nuts.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
@ thekansascitian: So far, there hasn’t been one source that has said anything BUT that Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii. Hawaii became a state in 1959. His mother was a US citizen born in Kansas, which, I believe, is also a state. So, even if his US citizen mother was traveling abroad rather than living in Hawaii when Barack Obama was born, he’d STILL be a US citizen, so all this blather about being “natural born” is just a smoke screen.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
@thekansascitian
He has released it to Fact Check organizations.
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
What else do you want?
Further, if you think he’s a natural born citizen, why is puzzling that he wouldn’t release his birth certificate? You do have to set limits with these kinds of things otherwise your critics will continue to ask and ask and ask.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I had to look it up on the all-knowing internet. According to wikipedia, a natural born citizen includes someone born to a US citizen no matter where they were born. And, strangely, Mitt Romney’s father, George, was born in Mexico… and ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968.
According to wikipedia (George Romney entry):
So there’s a Republican precedence on presidential campaigning and citizenship.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Jeez, so why not just release the darn thing? Ditto for recent health screening/checkup.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
They’ll just claim it’s fake anyway. There’s no reason to give in to ridiculous demands just because desperate people make them.
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I always get my facts from rense.com anyway!
November 6th, 2008 at 6:33 am
The headline for this entry is misleading, obviously made to be that way. If you read what the statement from Hawaii actually says. it does not say he was born there.
FactCheckED.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center supported by a grant from the Flora Family. If you look into Obama’s past you will see his connection with the Annenberg foundation.
The 2 entries by Karen and Bunny FuFu compare cases that differ in legal situations. Obama’s mother was underage at the time of birth and the suspected father was NOT a US citizen.
The easy way to put an end to this case still remains to release his actual birth certificate. Why does he resist doing this? Is he trying to provoke a Constitutional crisis… looks like it to me.
This is not a good way to start out as Commander in Chief.