Saturday, July 25, 2009

CNN: State of Hawaii Destroyed President Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate in 2001!

***UPDATE (July 28, 2009) - Check out the latest blog entry (WND: Hawaii Did Not Destroy President Obama's Original Long-Form Birth Certificate (Conflicts With CNN & Lou Dobbs Report)!) that potentially contradicts the below CNN story.
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Obama's citizenship has become a huge news story with MSNBC, Fox, CNN and big time radio hosts covering it on a daily basis over the last week. Many people (including myself) are demanding that President Obama produce his Hawaiian long-form birth certificate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, I assume that this below CNN/Media Bistro story will end the controversy (for now) over President Barack Obama's Hawaiian long-form birth certificate.

Without a long-form birth certificate, the short-form birth certificate produced by Obama "proves" his citizenship for purposes of being President. Unless someone can produce a contradictory document that holds the same weight as Obama's Hawaiian short-form birth certificate, I agree with CNN that Obama's alleged non-citizenship is a dead story.

However, if someone finds a contradictory document, then I will definitely be back blogging about it.

So what happened to President Obama's original long-form birth certificate?

CNN's president Jon Klein asked his political researchers to find out why Obama could not produce the original long-form birth certificate. The State of Hawaii Health Department informed CNN's researchers that the long-form birth certificate no longer existed, because Hawaii went to a paperless system in 2001. Therefore, President Obama's long-form birth certificate was discarded and likely destroyed in the State's trashing process.

---- Original Message -----
From: Klein, Jon (CNN)
Sent: Thu Jul 23 19:00:44 2009
Subject: Important re birth certificate

I asked the political researchers to dig into the question "why couldn't Obama produce the ORIGINAL birth certificate?"

This is what they forwarded. It seems to definitively answer the question. Since the show's mission is for Lou to be the explainer and enlightener, he should be sure to cite this during your segment tonite. And then it seems this story is dead - because anyone who still is not convinced doesn't really have a legitimate beef.

Thx

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*In 2001 - the state of Hawaii Health Department went paperless.*Paper documents were discarded*The official record of Obama's birth is now an official ELECTRONIC record Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for the Health Department told the Honolulu Star Bulletin, "At that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting," she said.


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Transcript from Lou Dobbs Tonight - 07.23.09

DOBBS: ....And a number of Americans are asking, why not? The left-wing media has attacked me because I simply asked the question. Meanwhile, the state of Hawaii says it can't release a paper copy of the president's original birth certificate because they say the state government discarded the original document when the health department records went electronic some eight years ago.


Source: CNN via Media Bistro.

3 comments:

R. D. Cook said...

Why did Janice Okubo state this year that she had examined Obama's long form original birth certificate and it exists? Why have Obama supporters constantly referred to her statement in support of the contention he was born in Hawaii?

Why would any governmental agency destroy the ORIGINAL and BEST records in lieu of historically insecure electronic records?

I can see an agency storing records after they have been entered into a computer system but not destroying them.

Computer storage systems are prone to crashes and hackers. Electronic records are also suscepyable to alteration by people having access to the records.

This story need alot more investigation.

R.D. Cook…author of “A Primer for Conservative Activism” blogger, freelance writer, retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff and resistnet.com/California Patriot member

The Moderator said...

I agree 100%. There is no way that any governmental agency should destroy the original records, because electronic record storage is too risky. That is why governments keep storage archives. Ms. Okubo's statement also contradicts the CNN story, because she could not have viewed the original if it was discarded in 2001. I do not think we have seen the end of this story.

Unknown said...

Republicans are so eager to believe what they want to believe: Don't bother us with the facts...

A few questions for you who choose to waste your time and that of others on this deeply meaningless
goose chase...

1) Is President Obama the only person in Hawaii whose "original" birth certificate was destroyed?

2) Regarding his birth on American soil: What CONCRETE evidence is there to the contrary?

3) Pursuant to question #2, please provide the requested sources, perfectly reproduced and fully documented. Let us know where and from whom you found them.

4) Allow your perfectly reproduced and fully documents sources be examined by a highly qualified international committee.