I Fat Bastard stopped being a Republican in 2006 but what really sealed
the deal was McCain picking the moron slut Sarah Palin. While the GOP remains the
party of greed and gluttony they are now overshadowed by the sex
sandals, lies and racism. The party of Reagan is no more and this
Birther shit has really pissed me off. The GOP (Group Of Perverts) is
trying to fire up the racist and moron vote with this latest ugly
reincarnation of the Birther movement now led by that flaming asshole
Donald Trump aka Ronald Rump because he is such an ass face. As a
response to Rump's latest load of lies Bigger Fatter Blog is presenting
conclusive evidence that like the song says, our president Barack Obama
was
BORN IN THE USA!
This evidence comes from many sources and was compiled by the
CONSERVATIVE Pulitzer Prize Winning St Petersberg Times and FACT CHECK. This was all explained
in August of 2008.
Here's the 411 on Obama's place of birth.
Born in the U.S.A.
August 21, 2008
Updated: November 1, 2008
The truth about Obama's birth certificate.
Summary
In
June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his
birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a
natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism
about the document's authenticity.
And recently, author and suspected pedophile Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a
TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake."
We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched,
examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude
that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for
proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal
or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of
the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said. BORN IN THE USA!
Update, Nov. 1: The director of Hawaii’s Department of Health confirmed Oct. 31 that Obama was born in Honolulu.
Analysis
Update Nov. 1: The Associated Press quoted Chiyome Fukino as saying that
both she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have
personally verified that the health department holds Obama's original
birth certificate.
Fukino also was quoted by several other news organizations. The Honolulu Advertiser quoted Fukino as
saying the agency had been bombarded by requests, and that the
registrar of statistics had even been called in at home in the middle of
the night.
Honolulu Advertiser, Nov. 1 2008: "This
has gotten ridiculous," state health director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said
yesterday. "There are plenty of other, important things to focus on,
like the economy, taxes, energy." . . . Will this be enough to quiet
the doubters? "I hope so," Fukino said. "We need to get some work done."
Fukino said she
has “personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of
Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in
accordance with state policies and procedures."
Since we first wrote about Obama's birth certificate on June 16, speculation on his citizenship has continued apace. Some claim that Obama posted a fake birth certificate to his Web page.
That charge leaped from the blogosphere to the mainstream media
earlier this week when Jerome Corsi, author of a book attacking Obama, repeated the claim in an Aug. 15 interview with Steve Doocy on Fox News.
Corsi:
Well, what would be really helpful is if Senator Obama would release
primary documents like his birth certificate. The campaign has a false,
fake birth certificate posted on their website. How is anybody
supposed to really piece together his life?
Doocy: What do you mean they have a "false birth certificate" on their Web site?
Corsi: The original birth certificate of Obama has never been released, and the campaign refuses to release it.
Doocy: Well, couldn't it just be a State of Hawaii-produced duplicate?
Corsi:
No, it's a -- there's been good analysis of it on the Internet, and
it's been shown to have watermarks from Photoshop. It's a fake document
that's on the Web site right now, and the original birth certificate
the campaign refuses to produce.
Corsi isn't the only skeptic claiming that the document is a forgery. Among the most frequent objections we saw on forums, blogs and e-mails are:
- The birth certificate doesn't have a raised seal.
- It isn't signed.
- No creases from folding are evident in the scanned version.
- In the zoomed-in view, there's a strange halo around the letters.
- The certificate number is blacked out.
- The date bleeding through from the back seems to say "2007," but the document wasn't released until 2008.
- The document is a "certification of birth," not a "certificate of birth."
Recently FactCheck representatives
got a chance to spend some time with the birth certificate, and we can
attest to the fact that it is real and three-dimensional and resides at
the Obama headquarters in Chicago. We can assure readers that the
certificate does bear a raised seal, and that it's stamped on the back
by Hawaii state registrar Alvin T. Onaka (who uses a signature stamp
rather than signing individual birth certificates). We even brought
home a few photographs.
The Obama birth certificate, held by FactCheck writer Joe Miller
Alvin T. Onaka's signature stamp
The raised seal
Blowup of text
You can click on the photos to get full-size versions, which haven't
been edited in any way, except that some have been rotated 90 degrees
for viewing purposes.
The certificate has all the elements the State Department requires for proving citizenship to obtain a U.S. passport: "your
full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth,
sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other
certification of the official custodian of such records." The names, date and place of birth, and filing date are all evident on the scanned version, and you can see the seal above.
The document is a "certification of birth," also known as a short-form
birth certificate. The long form is drawn up by the hospital and
includes additional information such as birth weight and parents'
hometowns. The short form is printed by the state and draws from a
database with fewer details. The Hawaii Department of Health's birth record request form
does not give the option to request a photocopy of your long-form
birth certificate, but their short form has enough information to be
acceptable to the State Department. We tried to ask the Hawaii DOH why
they only offer the short form, among other questions, but they have not
given a response.
The scan released by the campaign shows halos around the black text,
making it look (to some) as though the text might have been pasted on
top of an image of security paper. But the document itself has no such
halos, nor do the close-up photos we took of it. We conclude that the
halo seen in the image produced by the campaign is a digital artifact
from the scanning process.
We asked the Obama campaign about the date stamp and the blacked-out certificate number. The
certificate is stamped June 2007, because that's when Hawaii officials
produced it for the campaign, which requested that document and "all
the records we could get our hands on" according to spokesperson
Shauna Daly. The campaign didn't release its copy until 2008, after
speculation began to appear on the Internet questioning Obama's
citizenship. The campaign then rushed to release the document, and the
rush is responsible for the blacked-out certificate number. Says Shauna:
"[We] couldn't get someone on the phone in Hawaii to tell us whether
the number represented some secret information, and we erred on the side
of blacking it out. Since then we've found out it's pretty irrelevant
for the outside world." The document we looked at did have a
certificate number; it is 151 1961 - 010641.
Blowup of certificate number
Some of the conspiracy theories that have circulated about Obama are quite imaginative. One conservative blogger suggested
that the campaign might have obtained a valid Hawaii birth
certificate, soaked it in solvent, then reprinted it with Obama's
information. Of course, this anonymous blogger didn't have access to
the actual document and presents this as just one possible "scenario"
without any evidence that such a thing actually happened or is even
feasible.
We also note that so
far none of those questioning the authenticity of the document have
produced a shred of evidence that the information on it is incorrect.
Instead, some speculate that somehow, maybe, he was born in another
country and doesn't meet the Constitution's requirement that the
president be a "natural-born citizen."
We think our colleagues at PolitiFact.com, who also dug into some of these loopy theories put it pretty well:
"It is possible that Obama conspired his way to the precipice of the
world’s biggest job, involving a vast network of people and government
agencies over decades of lies. Anything’s possible. But step back and
look at the overwhelming evidence to the contrary and your sense of
what’s reasonable has to take over."
In fact, the
conspiracy would need to be even deeper than our colleagues realized.
In late July, a researcher looking to dig up dirt on Obama instead
found a birth announcement that had been published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1961:
Obama's birth announcement
The announcement was posted by a pro-Hillary Clinton blogger who grudgingly concluded that Obama "likely" was born Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu.
Of course, it's distantly possible that Obama's grandparents may have
planted the announcement just in case their grandson needed to prove
his U.S. citizenship in order to run for president someday. We suggest
that those who choose to go down that path should first equip
themselves with a high-quality tinfoil hat. The evidence is clear:
Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A.
Update, August 26: We received responses to some of our questions
from the Hawaii Department of Health. They couldn't tell us anything
about their security paper, but they did answer another
frequently-raised question: why is Obama's father's race listed as
"African"? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father's race and mother's
race are supplied by the parents, and that "we accept what the parents
self identify themselves to be." We consider it reasonable to believe
that Barack Obama, Sr., would have thought of and reported himself as
"African." It's certainly not the slam dunk some readers have made it
out to be.
When we asked about the security borders, which look different from some
other examples of Hawaii certifications of live birth, Kurt said "The
borders are generated each time a certified copy is printed. A
citation located on the bottom left hand corner of the certificate
indicates which date the form was revised." He also confirmed that the
information in the short form birth certificate is sufficient to prove
citizenship for "all reasonable purposes."
–by Jess Henig, with Joe Miller
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