Hillbuzz has come out with an interesting theory as to why president Obama’s doesn’t authorize the release of his birth certificate.
As in, start asking WHY Obama won’t show his birth certificate — which is a ridiculous thing to refuse to show — and instantly the media calls you a “Birther!” and accuses you of buying into the conspiracy that Obama was born in Africa or maybe Vancouver. It was a great strategy on Axelrod’s part that kept the truth from being revealed for over three years now.
All of those conspiracy theories about Obama not being naturally born were ginned up to keep people from ever focusing on the more mundane, less sexy truth: that Obama failed to change his name BACK to Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. after it was changed to Barry Soetoro in the 1970s.
He tried gaming the system by applying for college and all of his financial aid and special treatment with an Indonesian name, but then also wanted to use the blacker sounding “Barack Hussein Obama” name when that suited him to.
An interesting theory, it is certainly possible that there is some embarrassing thing on the official doc that could be there, but in terms of the constitutional question that doesn’t matter. As long as he is born in the US it doesn’t matter if his legal name is Merlin the happy pig. Born in the US, that ends the debate.
Now Granted Abercrombie has pretty much made himself look a fool, to wit:
Abercrombie said on Tuesday that an investigation had unearthed papers proving Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
He told Honolulu’s Star-Advertiser: ‘It actually exists in the archives, written down,’ he said.
But it became apparent that what had been discovered was an unspecified listing or notation of Obama’s birth that someone had made in the state archives and not a birth certificate.
And in the same interview Abercrombie suggested that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.
He said efforts were still being made to track down definitive vital records that would prove Obama was born in Hawaii. emphasis mine
Excuse me? You’re the Governor of the state, President Obama is likely the most famous person ever to be born in the state and “efforts are being made”? I’m sorry that just sounds like nonsense, either he was born there or he wasn’t and either the papers exist or they don’t. It makes one look a fool to say “efforts are being made”. This isn’t raising the U.S.S. Arizona or rebuilding ground zero. It is getting a piece of paper (that has already been seen by Director of Health for the State of Hawaii) out of storage.
Bottom line if he wanted the paper out there it would be out there, bottom line 2 if the White House wanted the paper out there it would be out there.
A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.
State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual’s birth documentation without the person’s consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday.
Well then the Governor can make a formal public request to the president to release the document and the White House can say “Yes” or “No”.
Will this happen? No.
Why? Because it is to the administration advantage to continue use this issue to discredit people who oppose the president. It continues to be a club that they can use against foes. As long as that is true the form will not be released.
As for “embarrassing the president” count me uninterested.
First of all I see no reason to embarrass any person based on something that happened when they were a kid.
Second of all I can’t see how any nonsense about his parents can be any more embarrassing than the last two years. I mean c’mon how stupid do you have to be to fall for something like this:
The song Lang Lang played describes how beautiful China is and then near the end has this verse, “When friends are here, there is fine wine /But if the jackal comes /What greets it is the hunting rifle.” The “jackal” in the song is the United States.
The name of the song is “My Motherland,” originally titled “Big River.” In an interview broadcast on Phoenix TV, the first thing Lang Lang is quoted as saying is that he chose the piece.
He then said, “I thought to play ‘My Motherland’ because I think playing the tune at the White House banquet can help us, as Chinese people, feel extremely proud of ourselves and express our feelings through the song. I think it’s especially good. Also, I like the tune in and of itself, every time I hear it I feel extremely moved.”
Because nothing says “I’m a competent president of the US ” like having a song referring to the US as a “jackal” played at a state dinner honoring the man holding the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize prisoner.
So I’m going to file this under “interesting but who cares”
Oh and one final thing. There was one laugh out loud line in the Hillbuzz post.
He tried gaming the system by applying for college and all of his financial aid and special treatment with an Indonesian name, but then also wanted to use the blacker sounding “Barack Hussein Obama” name when that suited him to.
And look where it got him.
Look where it got him? Look where it got him? HE’S PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
Words fail me.
P. S. I have tagged this post with the tag “birthers” A friend of mind considers this an insulting title and at her request I’ve made a deliberate effort not to use that word to describe people who believe the president is not born in the US by that title. In terms of the wordpress search it is the most relevant tag for the post.
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