USA TODAY: President Obama released copies of his birth certificate today, hoping to silence questions about his Aug. 4, 1961 birth, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Obama himself plans to make a statement about the so-called “birther issue” at 9:45 a.m.
The release is a response to Donald Trump and other critics who have questioned whether Obama was born in the United States, and is therefore eligible for the presidency.
The White House also released letters from this month in which Obama requested copies of his birth certificate.
“The president believed it was becoming a major distraction from the issues we are having in this country,” said communications director Dan Pfeiffer, calling it a “fake controversy” and “a sideshow.” [ READ MORE ]
[ The Short Form Certification of Live BirthWhich The Birthers Have Refused To Accept as Proof of Obama's Citizenship ]
In the state of Hawaii, a Certificate of Live Birth is a long form birth certificate. The Certification of Live Birth is the short form birth certificate. The long form contains more information than the short form. The Certification is computer generated utilizing the information from the long form birth certificate. It shows the date the long form was filed. If a Certificate of Live Birth (long form) does not exist, the state of Hawaii will issue a No Record Certification.
A short form birth certificate from Hawaii is acceptable proof of birth and citizenship when applying for a US passport, but a short form birth certificate from California or Texas is not.
Donald Trump & Birther-Liars Lose as ‘Kenyan Alien’ Barack Obama Releases ‘Long Form’ Birth Certificate
Who Are The Birthers? — The “birthers” are the dumb group of Republican/Tea-Party racist-psychos — who cannot fathom the fact that Barack Obama, the son of a black Kenyan man and a white American woman was democratically elected president. They are deluded and drunk with conspiracy theories — including nonsense like — Obama will mistreat whites in retaliation to 400 years of black slavery in America.
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Hawaii was and is still an American state. When Barack Obama was elected, he was 47 years old and had lived in the US since 1971. According to the Constitution, the president must be a natural-born citizen 35 years old or order who has lived in the US for 14 years. Barack Obama is eligible to be the president. It’s that simple.
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Critics have dubbed proponents of claims about Obama’s eligibility “birthers”, drawing a parallel with 9/11 conspiracy theorists or “truthers”. MSNBC political commentator Rachel Maddow defines a “birther” as:
A specific new breed of American conspiracy theorists who believe that the real problem with Barack Obama being president is that he can’t possibly have been born in the United States. He’s not eligible to be president. The birth certificate is a fake. He’s a foreigner. Once this has been exposed, I guess, he will be run out of the White House and exposed for the alien, communist, Muslim, gay, drug dealer, al-Qaeda member that he is …
Leslie Savan of The Nation commented:
The Birthers go beyond simple conspiracy theories–they’re cast members of the ongoing American denying-reality show, not unlike the folks who deny the moonlanding or the Holocaust …, and very much like the Creationists who insist that the Earth is but 6,000 years old, the Teabaggers who refuse to believe they must pay taxes, the 9/11 Truthers who say the government attacked the Twin Towers, and, as we might call them, the Inhofers who believe global warming is a hoax.
[ By: David Corn ] Yes, they have a plan—and it may not be crazy. The birthers have a plan to end Barack Obama’s presidency—and in Arizona, they’re making progress.
Last week, Arizona state Rep. Judy Burges, a Republican, introduced a bill that would bar presidential candidates who do not prove they were born in the United States from appearing on the ballot in the Grand Canyon state. And state Rep. Chad Campbell, the top Democrat in the GOP-controlled Arizona House of Representatives, tells Mother Jones that the bill is likely to pass. It was introduced with 25 co-sponsors in the House and 16 co-sponsors in the state Senate; the measure needs 31 votes in the House and 16 in the Senate for approval. “Will it matter?” asks Campbell. “We’ve started a tradition here of passing legislation that is political grandstanding or that sets up litigation.”
But the birthers those ardent Obama foes who believe the president was not born in Hawaii and, thus, is not constitutionally qualified serve as president—see this measure as more than symbolic. For them, it’s part of a well-orchestrated campaign to deny Obama reelection.
It’s not that Obama necessarily requires Arizona’s 10 electoral votes to win reelection in 2012. In 2008, he lost there to John McCain, Arizona’s senior senator (though in 2012, Obama could make a play for the state). More important, Burges’ bill—which would establish a strict standard for proving natural-born citizenship (which the birthers presume Obama could not meet)—is a model for other states, and similar efforts are under way in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Montana, Georgia, and Texas. (Obama won Pennsylvania in 2008 and lost Missouri by less than 4,000 votes.) Arizona may be where this birther ball gets rolling.
The “birthers” are the dumb group of Republican/Tea-Party racist-psychos — who cannot fathom the fact that Barack Obama, the son of a black Kenyan man and a white American woman was democratically elected president. They are deluded and drunk with conspiracy theories — including nonsense like — Obama will mistreat whites in retaliation to 400 years of black slavery in America.
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Hawaii was and is still an American state. When Barack Obama was elected, he was 47 years old and had lived in the US since 1971. According to the Constitution, the president must be a natural-born citizen 35 years old or order who has lived in the US for 14 years. Barack Obama is eligible to be the president. It’s that simple. Visit PoliticalArticles.NET for more info.
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Last year, Burges introduced a similar measure that stalled in committee. Her new one is much tougher. The original bill would have set up a system under which a presidential candidate would have to document his or her citizenship to be listed on the state ballot. Here’s how it would work: The national political party would submit an affidavit from its presidential candidate in which the candidate states his citizenship, and this affidavit would have to be supported by “documents that prove that the candidate is a natural born citizen.” Arizona’s secretary of the state would then review the affidavit and supporting documents, and if there were “reasonable cause to believe the candidate does not meet the citizenship” requirement, the secretary of state would be able to keep the candidate off the ballot.
This system left discretion to the secretary of state. And Burges’ original bill did not specify what documents would be acceptable. Consequently, the certification of live birth that the Obama campaign produced in 2008 might well qualify as sufficient documentation under that measure.
Burges’ new version raises the bar. It notes that the affidavit must be accompanied by “an original long form birth certificate that includes the date and place of birth, the names of the hospital and the attending physician and signatures of the witnesses in attendance.” (The other documentation required would include a list “that identifies the candidate’s places of residence in the United States for the preceding fourteen years.”) And the law states that if the candidate fails to submit these records, the secretary of state “shall not” place his or her name on state ballot.
There’s no wiggle room: Produce a long-form birth certificate, or no ballot-listing. That certification of live birth issued by the Hawaiian government would not count. (Two weeks ago, radio personality Mike Evans said he had been told by Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie that no original birth certificate could be found for Obama—a remark that lit up the birther community—but this past week, Evans said he had been misunderstood. Meanwhile, Hawaiian legislators have introduced a bill charging anyone requesting Obama’s birth records—meaning that certification of live birth—$100, in order to cut down on birther requests.)
Burges’ bill, if passed, would have to be signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer to become law, and, if enacted, could well face a court challenge. It would establish a hard-and-fast criterion for all presidential candidates.
“Imagine if just one or two states adopt such a measure before 2012. Obama will be forced to comply with those state regulations or forgo any effort to get on the ballot for reelection.”
But what if a candidate does not have a long-form version of his or her birth certificate, and the state where he or she was born could not locate a copy—say, it was lost in a fire, or simply misfiled? Would he or she be out of the running? The law also demands the candidate produce an “original” long-form birth certificate. Does that mean a copy wouldn’t suffice?
Birthers are ecstatic about the Arizona move. “It could be a game-changer,” declares WorldNetDaily, a conservative site run by Joseph Farah, a leading birther. “Imagine if just one or two states adopt such a measure before 2012,” Farah says.
“Obama will be forced to comply with those state regulations or forgo any effort to get on the ballot for reelection. Can Obama run and win without getting on all 50 state ballots? I don’t think so.” In the past, Farah has put up billboards around the country asking, “Where’s the birth certificate?”
Campbell complains that the Arizona measure is “not based on an factual evidence. I’m trying to figure out the thinking behind this bill. I can’t. It’s just another conspiracy.” But the strategic intent is clear: maintaining the marginalized birther movement. Numerous lawsuits filed by the birthers have failed in the courts. Last month, Lt. Col. Terry Larkin, an Army doctor who refused to be deployed to Afghanistan because he questioned whether Obama was born in the United States, was dismissed from the Army and sentenced to six months in prison for refusing his orders. And last year, a Republican birther bill in the US House of Representatives fizzled.
Yet the birthers are charged up about this new battle plan: using GOP-dominated state legislatures to pressure Obama to produce a long-form birth certificate. A win on this front in Arizona will not in and of itself scuttle Obama’s reelection (assuming no such document for Obama can be produced). But it will certainly encourage birthers in other states to follow suit—and to keep their hope, and conspiracy theory, alive.
About The Author: David Corn — is Mother Jones’ Washington bureau chief. A regular on political talk shows, he has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and other Washington players. Mr. Corn is the co-author of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War and is the author of The Lies of George W. Bush. He writes a blog at davidcorn.com.
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Columnist – John Sammon The news that a conservative pundit had heart-attack-like chest pains while on vacation in Hawaii seems to pose an irony. Why would he, an avowed exclusionist, separatist, who wants an Andy Hardy America free of blacks and Mexicans (except as porters and melon pickers), choose to vacation in Hawaii, among the most racially mixed of all states?
The sight of so many people with un-pink skin must be unsettling to him.
Is it the great beaches? He doesn’t look good in a bathing suit. Too much time sitting and talking and not exercising.
I will not question his right to go where he pleases to relax or his need to because of his hectic schedule. But I’m still curious. Hawaii is also the home of his hated adversary Obama.
Does he like coconuts?
Hawaii stands for everything the pundit is not. It’s a place to be seen among people of color with your shirt off. Warm people. Friendly people. Aloha! Not for someone who mockingly says things like, “you’re a socialist terrorist traitor because you disagree with me.”
Not for someone who believes the state is filled with welfare-sucking leeches and people he considers to be niggers, gooks, pineapples (native Hawaiians), chinks, zips and more.
Whatever.
I’ve come up with a partial list of eight more appropriate vacation spots for ultra conservatives including the hate mongers at Fox News. This is so they can not only relax, but be more in their own element.
Cross of Iron, Wyoming. This tiny hamlet is home to the Thunderbolt Party, a group of neo-Nazi skinheads whose leader is a manure farmer named Earl and who are known to roll out the red carpet for any like-minded dignitary, welcoming the visitor with a ritualistic ceremony that includes pledges of white-only fealty, drawn sabers and lit candles amid swastika flags. Held in a secret cave in the side of a mountain above the town, everyone there has tattoos, wears leather jackets, Nazi medals and helmets, is crew-cut blonde, stocky and five-foot-seven, including the women.
Tierra Del Fuego Exclusiva Phase One. This gated, fenced, closed-off, high-society, camera-surveillance luxury two-story condominium development in Orange County California is renowned for its “white only” tenants and the exclusion of those considered the wrong people (except as gardeners), even those termed “million dollar niggers” (famous black athletes). Though segregation is officially unlawful, it is still largely successful here, evoking fond memories of the 1950s, a simpler time.
Children of any color are not allowed, making the grounds as quiet as a tomb.
Shoe shine boys of color are allowed occasional entrance if accompanied by an armed guard.
The Burning Sub-Human Festival. Held near the newly settled religious-political cult center of New Order, New Mexico, this celebration took its inspiration from a similarly-named event in Nevada, and is intended to gain sympathy for the idea that forestalling the possibility of mud races (people of color) achieving equal population with whites by mid-century is patriotic and will save democracy. A giant wooden figure with threatening colored racial features (big lips) is symbolically torched. Events include forming a ring of cheap mobile homes in a protective circle, massive beer drinking, and seminars such as how to keep non-whites doing menial jobs while denying them social services, restricting immigration to only beautiful blonde women from Sweden, and so on.
Ana Capa Island. Adolph Hitler and Abraham Lincoln favored deporting blacks to the African island of Madagascar. This is a flip of that idea. A for-whites-only formerly nature preserve island off California (no Jews allowed).
Segregated Space Shuttle. Tired of scenes of astronauts wasting your tax dollars floating around in a tin can doing the same things they always do accomplishing nothing new other than floating around. This is your chance to go for five months without seeing a person of color, as if they never existed.
The Michael Jackson Skin Graft Nose Job Clinic. Luxurious grounds only for the very rich Celtic-blooded celebrities and right wing pundits. All residents must be white or have at least a complete makeover to turn themselves into what looks like a white. White wife is also required. Those achieving white look who are not white may wait tables at the overpriced steak house.
SS Style Stud Farm. Combines conservative-based porn with “yaa-haa” breeding. Attempts to take selective stock of racially pure conservatives and mate them with perfect Aryan partners to out-populate undesirables, including Mexicans, to keep the land of the free from turning into Mexico by mid-century. Fun in the sun.
Celebrity Racist Bus Tour. This unique event combines reenactments of civil rights history with the view that it never took place. Famous right wing pundits sit in the front of an aged 1950s bus from Little Rock, Arkansas, while famous blacks (token Uncle Michael Steele) sit in the back. A celebration of knowing your proper place.
Tomatoes were thrown at Sarah Palin during a book signing event in Minnesota yesterday. A man, Jeremiah Wobbe was arrested for allegedly throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin from the second floor balcony at the Mall of America in Minnesota, MyFoxTwinCities.com. reported. [ READ MORE ]
In the New Yorker, Sam Tanenhaus, in his review of Palin’s book — “Going Rogue,” writes: “….Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only one semester. “Hawaii was a little too perfect,” Palin writes. “Perpetual sunshine isn’t necessarily conducive to serious academics for eighteen-year-old Alaska girls.” Perhaps not.
But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to [Scott] Conroy and [Shushannah] Walshe [authors of 'Sarah From Alaska']. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.” In any case, Palin reports that she much preferred her last stop, the University of Idaho, “because it was much like Alaska yet still ‘Outside.’” [ READ MORE ] [ REFERENCES: PALIN QUESTION OF THE DAY | HUFFINGTON POST ]
Why Idaho? — The retirement home of Mark Furman, the former LAPD detective whose racism literally unhooked O.J. Simpson from the jaws of justice, and of Bruce Willis — the macho Republican movie actor who harbors the delusion that the United States should invade Colombia to end drug trafficking. When 27 year old Ashton Kutcher stole Bruce’s wife, 40 year old Demi Moore, “tough guy” Willis bought a house next door to the couple. It is also rumored that Demi Moore’s daughter (with Willis), Rumer Willis had a crush on her Stepdad Ashton Kutcher. Talk about deviance in Idaho, John McClane!
Idaho is a tiny little (96 percent white) pacific north west state with a stinking racist culture. With Ruby Ridge to the north of Sandpoint (The birthplace of Sarah Palin) and the former Aryan Nations to the south, Idahoans are sandwiched in between the most filthy elements of racism in the United States — propped by gun-sucking Republican politicians — from top to bottom.
Idaho is state where bigots and “frightened” right-wingers go to retire — to keep safe from leprosy, pedophiles, Spanish and rampant godlessness; far away from blacks, liberals and “diseased” immigrants. It is a state where “white folks” home-school their children to avoid the “corrupting effects” of liberalism and homosexuality.
From the 1970s until 2001, the Aryan Nations had its headquarters in a 20 acre (81,000 square meters) compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho. In September 2000 the Southern Poverty Law Center won a $6.3 million judgment against the Aryan Nations from an Idaho jury who awarded punitive and compensatory damages to Victoria Keenan and her son, Jason, who were attacked by Aryan Nations guards in 1999. Bullets struck the Keenan’s car several times then the car crashed and an Aryan member held the Keenans at gunpoint. As a result of the judgment, Richard Butler turned over the 20-acre compound to the Keenans, who then sold the property to a philanthropist, who subsequently donated it to North Idaho College, which designated the land as a “peace park.”
Apparently Sarah Palin couldn’t stand the “smell” of Hawaii and its racially diverse peoples, hence the move to Idaho, to mingle comfortably with REAL AMERICANS.
Yes, they have a plan—and it may not be crazy. The birthers have a plan to end Barack Obama’s presidency—and in Arizona, they’re making progress.
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