Wednesday, December 29, 2010

C'mon, Just Show It To Us Already ...

Hawaii's far left wing nutcase of a governor has come out and said he has the proof that Obama was born in Hawaii, and he wants to show it to the world. You know, in spite of being a Democrat, he's right.

Obama's refusal to show his birth certificate has led to all kinds of rumors and internet bashing, rise to the insult 'birther' (used by those of the left to attack anyone on the right who doubts Obama's country of birth). It has gone so far as to lead an Army officer to refuse to deploy to Afghanistan, stating he could not follow an illegal Commander-in-Chief (he was subsequently courtmartialed, and will spend time in jail).

There are enough people and information sources out there to raise some question as to whether Obama is indeed a natural born American citizen. If he isn't, his occupation of the White House is illegal under current law. Why is Obama continuing to keep the controversy going? Why doesn't he just show us the birth certificate that is supposedly on file with the State of Hawaii, and kill the issue once and for all?

Two possibilities.
First, Obama is indeed hiding something, and the release of the certificate would show he's not natural born.

Second, Obama just loves to f*** with folks on the right, and he's just stringing them on. He's laughing at the controversy, allowing Democrats to ridicule those who believe he is hiding something.

I personally believe the second case is the right one - but I don't KNOW for sure. I would like to know. I want to see the birth certificate. I want to KNOW for certain that the man occupying the Presidency is legally doing so.

By The Way - this is another classic example of Democrat dual-standards. If this question had come up about George W. Bush, do you think Democrats would let it go?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Obama has not refused to show the original birth certificate. He cannot show it because Hawaii did not send the original to him in 2007. It sent him what it sends to everyone, and what it has sent to everyone ever since the short-form birth certificate became the official birth certificate in 2001. It sent him the short-form Certification of Live Birth, and that is what Obama has posted and shown the physical copies of. However, the officials in Hawaii have repeatedly confirmed the facts on Obama's birth certificate, that he was born in Hawaii in 1961.

67Cougar said...

Hey Anon ... are you seriously trying to tell me that the President of the United States, and Obama the dictator in particular, cannot get a copy of his birth certificate from his home state? That's a hell of s strong glass of koolaid you're drinking there, my friend.

The Governonr of Hawaii says he has seen the birth certificate, and wants to show it publicly, but has been blocked from doing so.

Again - all Obama has to do is show the birth certificate, and the issue goes away completely.

Anonymous said...

Re: "gain - all Obama has to do is show the birth certificate, and the issue goes away completely.'

Sadly, it wouldn't. The Wall Street Journal put it this way:

"The release of the obsolete birth certificate would not “resolve the issue” to those for whom it is not already resolved. They claim without basis that today’s birth certificate is a fake; there is nothing to stop them from claiming without basis that yesterday’s is as well."

That prediction, made more than a year ago, is turning out to be true. Already the birthers are claiming that IF Gov. Abercrombie succeeds in releasing the original birth certificate (which may require passing a bill in the legislature), then the document will simply be a superb forgery.

Re: "are you seriously trying to tell me that the President of the United States, and Obama the dictator in particular, cannot get a copy of his birth certificate from his home state? '

Answer. Yes, that is what I am saying. Notice that above I already said that Abercrombie was TRYING to release the original and that he may not be able to do it without action of the legislature.

Well, before Abercrombie was elected the governor of Hawaii was a Republican, and there is no evidence that she even wanted to try to release the original birth certificate. She was one of the officials who confirmed that Obama was born in Hawaii, and she believes that that is sufficient.

In any case, Hawaii currently does not send out the original to anyone, so Obama would be asking for a special favor to have it sent to him. AND, that would be unnecessary since the official birth certificate is sufficient, especially with the repeated confirmations of the officials and the notices in the newspapers in 1961.

IF Abercrombie succeeds in releasing the original, some birthers will claim that it is forged. Others will switch to allegations that Obama became an Indonesian citizen or requires two citizen parents to be eligible (neither of which is true).

67Cougar said...

You are correct in one way. Far Right 'birthers' will not be satisfied. There are nut cases on both extremes that will not be satisfied. How many of the left continued to believe President Bush was AWOL, even after the person who forged the documents Dan Rather stupidly spewed out on national TV confessed and said it was a hoax?

What it would serve to do is placate those like me - untold thousands of more moderate folks who question in their own mind 'what is Obama hiding?'.

I can get a full copy of my birth certificate, notarized and legally accepted as real, from the county of my birth with just a phone call.

The Governor could show us the birth certificate if Obama OK'd it - by Presidential proclamation if nothing else. Such a proclamation would override any law that supposedly stands in the way.

Obama himself could just pick up the phone to Hawaii, or even go by the right local state office since he's vacationing down there right now, and pick up the copy in person.

To say that there is some 'overriding law' that prevents that is bull crap of the highest order.

Margot said...

"To say that there is some 'overriding law' that prevents that is bull crap of the highest order". Boy - ain't that the truth.