Obama releases 'long form' birth certificate

[Seshmeister]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13212230

Hopefully that's the end of this bullshit and a bunch of people admit they were being retarded.

The White House has released President Barack Obama's birth certificate, in response to persistent rumours he was not born in the US.

Mr Obama had previously released an official "certification of live birth" showing he was born in Hawaii.

But fringe "birther" theorists have insisted Mr Obama was actually born in his father's native Kenya, making him ineligible to be president.

Recently potential Republican candidate Donald Trump has revived the rumour.

On Wednesday, Mr Obama described the unprecedented move as an effort to rid the US political debate of a distraction.

"We do not have time for this kind of silliness," Mr Obama said. "We have better stuff to do. I have better stuff to do. We have problems we have to solve but we're gonna have to focus on them, not on this."

Mr Obama said he had watched "with bemusement" as the birther conspiracy had built and developed over the past years.

The release of Mr Obama's long form birth certificate, which had been stored in a vault in Hawaii since his birth in August 1961, comes after years of speculation among conspiracy-minded conservatives.

The "birther" conspiracy held that Mr Obama was born in Kenya or in Indonesia, where he lived as a child, or that the birth certificate revealed other unwholesome information about the president.

During the 2008 presidential campaign Mr Obama released a computer print-out of the birth certificate information that is recognised as an official record of his birth, and Hawaiian public health officials vouched for its authenticity.

But the move did little to quell the birthers, even as most mainstream Republicans have sought to quash the movement, calling it a distraction from substantive policy disagreements.

On Wednesday, the White House released copies of the original birth certificate, with a stamp indicating it was received from Hawaiian officials on Monday.

It shows Barack Hussein Obama II was born 4 August 1961 at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, to Barack Hussein Obama, a 25-year-old student, and Stanley Ann Dunham, 18, and includes the signature of the attending physician.

[Seshmeister]

Developing: Trump now demands proof Hawaii is part of USA

[Hardrock69]

Mobama pulled the rug out from under the 'birther' idiots.

What will they do now?

Probably keep screaming and crying that it is a fake.

Fucking loser morons....

[Unchainme]

FINALLY...

now if we could just convince all those 9/11-truthers that it was indeed a terrorist attack and not some bullshit conspiracy by the gov't we can start our path to sanity again.

[FORD]

Next thing they'll bitch about, is that a *copy* is not good enough. My guess is that the original piece of paper is buried deep in an archive facility, along with every other piece of paper issued by the State of Hawaii in 1961. That's what state governments do. It's no conspiracy, just common sense, since state agencies don't have the floor space to store decades of files (or even centuries worth, in older states)

Most states have probably scanned their archives into electronic storage by now anyway, so they probably never even had to dig up the actual original piece of paper, even so, it was still an unnecessary pain in the ass even to dig through the imaged archives just to satisfy a handful of lunatics, suddenly given "legitimacy" by a rich guy with a dead animal on his head. Hopefully this will be the end of Trump's freak show, since he's got nothing left to talk about now.

[Seshmeister]

It wasn't a handful of lunatics it was almost half the Republican party.

That's a lot of lunatics, and almost half of them believed this.

This issue should have been dead in the water years ago when the Republican Governor of Hawaii said they had inspected it.

[Jagermeister]

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[Nitro Express]

Nobody questioning it had enough name recognition. Obama has that in droves plus he has the media on his side. It wasn't until someone with huge name recognition and access to the media demanded proof that the president finally gave in. Like I said there was a strategy here. He either didn't have it or it was a wonderful red herring. Name recognition and media access is the gold in modern politics. Sadly. It shouldn't be that way but it is.

[FORD]

Most of the elected Republicans never actually believed this shit, they just refused to condemn it in public, because they feared the teabagging lunatics. But the previous spokespeople for this dumb crusade were Alan Keyes, Phillip Berg, and that dentist/lawyer hybrid Russian bitch Oily Twatz whose hair was almost as ridiculous as Trump's. And none of those three could keep corporate media interest for more than 5 minutes, so Obama's team just laughed it off.

[Seshmeister]

What a prick, the media made him go on about it all the time?

I'm really proud that today that I made someone admit that the sky is blue.

Meh.

[Nitro Express]

The big thorns in Obama's side will be Libya, going along with the tax cuts, doing nothing to repeal the Bush abuses like the Patriot Act, and expanding the Bush wars. Also, the economy has gotten way worse on his watch and president's get the blame.

[Seshmeister]

Obama has already won because he has huge amounts of money and no one will bring in some sensible campaign funding laws.

[Nitro Express]

Jesse Ventura once said politics is just like pro wrestling. Most of what you see is fake and exaggerated.

[FORD]

And the results are in from Republican wackjob site freerepublic.com (aka Rimjob's Digital Trailer Park).....

immediate issues with this—he’s still not eligible as his father was not a US citizen at any time. Father’s race is also African—that is not a race. It’s like referring to anybody born in on any of the Americas, North, Middle, or South as Americans. Does not give any real information.

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I still say the biggest problem here isn’t going to be Zero’s place of birth, but the fact he more than likely renounced his citizenship to become a citizen of Kenya which would also disqualify him. As if he’s qualified in any way anyhow!

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Yeah, I know that he changed his name—likely more than once. What we need are the remaining documents that he has sealed, though this one, real or forged, is sufficient to disqualify him if the idiots in charge had the guts to do their constitutional duties.

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ACCORDING TO THIS, THAT WAS NOT THE NAME OF THAT HOSPITAL ...HE'S STILL LIEING ... DON'T LET THIS GET WIPED

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the font of the “A” on line 13 appears different
from the “A” in the date on line 20.

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This official certificate of live birth clearly states that his father is a foreign national. This means Obama is ineligible to be president because both of his parents weren't citizens of the United States at the time of his birth. As a minor, his mother couldn't pass on her citizenship.

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Line 13 was typed but it looks like line 20 was a stamp.

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At the bottom it says, “Birthplace Kenya,” registered Honolulu per Grandmother.”

Also, strange but “Place of Birth” says Honolulu and there’s a “1” right after slightly below the line, wonder what that means?

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Ok, so his dad was born in Kenya....
Was he still a citizen of Kenya or by that time was he an American Citizen.

That is the million dollar question that no one will ask today at the presser because it goes to the "naturalized" question...

[chefcraig]

Developing: Trump now demands proof Hawaii is part of USA

And there goes a huge plank in his election platform. Maybe it's just as well. Does anyone really want to see any of these chowderheads in his cabinet, let alone Gary Busey as his campaign director/chief of staff?