Sometimes, problems are like a bad penny...they just will not go away. Such is the case with the birther issue of President Obama. I sometimes have to wonder if this is an issue that the current administration does not want to disappear. After all, since the presidential election two years ago, the Obama administration has been plagued with problems that are brought about by there own policies and some out of stubbornness. Perhaps the latter when it comes to the President's birth certificate.
We are all aware of some of the frivolous accusations in the media brought about by what I would classify as far right loons and several failed lawsuits by the same bunch which thus far have been met by deaf ears in the nations court. The main contention by the birther movement has has been that the State of Hawaii presented only a state document to prove that Barack Obama was born there. The problem with the document is that it does not provide the details of birth that a true hospital document provides. The Obama administration contents that the State of Hawaii document is sufficient and state law protects the President from the hospital releasing the document unless expressly released with his permission.
This issue in my opinion had quited down considerably until last week when the noted liberal television host Chris Matthews of MSNBC stated, " Why doesn't the President just say, 'send me a copy right now?' Why doesn't Gibbs and Axelrod say "lets just get this crappy story dead?' Why not do it?...If it exists, why not put it out?" He was joined by Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune and David Corn of Mother Jones who both agreed with the call for Obama to publicly release the certified document which has remained under wraps. As if this bit of a bombshell from the left was not enough, this week while the President was spending the Christmas holidays with his family in Hawaii, the Governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie (D), released a headline making statement in the local newspaper and Associated Press stating that he was troubled by all the conspiracies and was looking for a way to release more information regarding the President's birth in Hawaii. Since that media release, the issue from the Governor office has been quite mute with no further statements.
I am just one American citizen who truly would like the Obama Administration to finally put this entire controversy to bed. Unless there is harm to the family or harm to the nation, there is no reason on this earth for the President of the United States to continue this cover up which does nothing positive for the nation or his family. I agree with Chris Matthews (and that is very unusual), "please Mr. President, release the certified birth certificate from the hospital and put this baloney to rest once and for all".
Re: "The problem with the document is that it does not provide the details of birth that a true hospital document provides. "
ReplyDeleteAnswer. That is because in 2001 Hawaii, like most states, adopted the short-form birth certificate format, which does not show the doctor or the hospital. That is the official birth certificate of Hawaii, and it is what Hawaii sends out to everyone, even to people who were born before it became the official birth certificate. That is what Hawaii sends out to everyone, and it is used by thousands of people every year to get their US passports.
In addition to the birth certificate itself, the facts on the birth certificate were confirmed repeatedly by three officials in Hawaii, all members of a Republican governor's administration. The Republican governor (and now the Democrat governor) has even listed the name of the hospital, Kapiolani Hospital. And there is a witness who recalls being told of Obama's birth in Hawaii in 1961 and writing home about the unusual event of a birth to a woman named Stanley, to her father, also named Stanley http://www.buffalonews.com/incoming/article137495.ece