BORN IN THE USA?
Hawaii governor can't find Obama birth certificate
Suggests controversy could hurt president's
re-election chances
By Jerome R. Corsi
WND.com
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
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Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie suggested in an
interview
published today 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.
Abercrombie told the
Honolulu Star
Advertiser he was searching within the
Hawaii Department of Health to find definitive vital
records that would prove Obama
was born
in Hawaii, because the continuing eligibility
controversy could hurt the president's chances of
re-election in 2012.
Donalyn Dela Cruz, Abercrombie's spokeswoman in
Honolulu, ignored again today another in a series of
repeated requests made by WND for an interview with
the governor.
Toward the end of the interview, the newspaper asked
Abercrombie: "You stirred up quite a controversy
with your comments regarding birthers and your plan
to release
more information
regarding President Barack Obama's birth
certificate. How is that coming?"
In his response, Abercrombie acknowledged the birth
certificate issue will have "political implications"
for the next presidential election "that we simply
cannot have."
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Suggesting he was still intent on producing more
birth records on Obama from the Hawaii Department of
Health vital records vault, Abercrombie told the
newspaper there was a recording of the Obama birth
in the state archives that he wants to make public.
Abercrombie did not report to the newspaper that he
or the Hawaii Department of Health had found Obama's
long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate. The
governor only suggested his investigations to date
had identified an unspecified listing or notation of
Obama's birth that someone had made in the state
archives.
"It was actually written, I am told, this is what
our investigation is showing, it actually exists in
the archives, written down," Abercrombie said.
For seemingly the first time, Abercrombie frankly
acknowledged that presidential politics motivated
his search for Obama birth records, implying that
failure to resolve the questions that remain
unanswered about the president's birth and early
life may damage his chance for re-election.
"If there is a political agenda (regarding Obama's
birth certificate), then there is nothing I can do
about that, nor can the president," he said.
So far, the only birth document available on Obama
is a Hawaii Certification of Live Birth that first
appeared on the Internet during the 2008
presidential campaign. It was posted by two
purportedly independent websites that have displayed
a strong partisan bias for Obama –
Snopes.com released the
COLB in June 2008, and
FactCheck.org published
photographs of the document in August 2008.
WND previously reported
the Hawaii Department of Health has refused to
authenticate the COLB posted on the Internet by
Snopes.com and FactCheck.org.
WND has reported
that in 1961, Obama's grandparents, Stanley and
Madelyn Dunham, could have made an in-person report
of a Hawaii birth even if the infant Barack Obama
Jr. had been foreign-born.
Similarly, the newspaper announcements of Obama's
birth do not prove he was born in Hawaii, since they
could have been triggered by the grandparents
registering the birth as Hawaiian, even if the baby
was born elsewhere.
Moreover,
WND has documented
that the address reported in the newspaper birth
announcements was the home of the grandparents.
WND also has reported
that Barack Obama Sr. maintained his own separate
apartment in Honolulu, even after he was supposedly
married to Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother, and
that
Dunham left Hawaii
within three weeks of the baby's birth to
attend the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dunham did not return to Hawaii until after Barack
Obama Sr. left Hawaii in June 1962 to attend
graduate school at Harvard University in Cambridge,
Mass.
Conceivably, the yet undisclosed birth record in the
state archives that Abercrombie has discovered may
have come from the grandparents registering Obama's
birth, an event that would have triggered both the
newspaper birth announcements and availability of a
Certification of Live Birth, even if no long-form
birth certificate existed.
WND has also reported that Tim Adams, a former senior elections clerk for the city and county of Honolulu in 2008, has maintained that there is no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate on file with the Hawaii Department of Health and that neither Honolulu hospital – Queens Medical Center or Kapiolani Medical Center – has any record that Obama was born there.