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The Birther Conspiracy Thread (1 Viewer)

The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
 
I ask this question politically....why? Why should he "settle" this?
My problem is that his response is political, instead of Presidential. He (and many of his supporters, and many of his opposition) just care about "gotcha" politics, winning news cycles, and scoring points against the other side, instead of behaving above that level. It's petty. It's not statesmanlike. And the behavior by both sides just hurts the country.The constitutional job requirements for the office are pretty clear and easy to meet... yet he refuses to give permission to the governor of Hawaii to prove he meets them. Why? What is the problem? Is this really how we want a President to act? Would Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, hell, even Millard Fillmore behave like this? Are we really OK with the leader of the country acting at the lowest level possible? This isn't baseball, we're not Yankees vs. Red Sox, we're all on the same team and we shouldn't be concerned with scoreboard watching on who bested who in the tabloids.

When faced with a coverup scandal, Jed Bartlet's motto became "Bring it on" I just wish we had a real president as good as NBC's fake one.

Oliver Babish: Then, order the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor. Not just any special prosecutor, the most blood-spitting, Bartlet-hating Republican in the Bar. He's gonna have an unlimited budget and a staff like an army. The new slogan around here is gonna be "Bring it on!" He's gonna have access to every piece of paper you ever touched. If you invoke executive privilege one time, I'm gone. An assistant D.A in Ducksworth wants to take your deposition, you're on the next plane. A freshman Congressman wants your testimony, you'll sit in his kitchen. They wanna drag you to The Hague and charge you with war crimes, what'll we say?

President Josiah Bartlet: Bring it on.
Not sure the distinction you are making here. Don't kid yourself president is the most political position in this country. I'm not making excuses for the guy but he's deflecting without even trying. He's getting exactly what he wants with little to no effort. Until folks wake up and understand that our government is all about deflection and it's a "politician vs the people" mentality, stuff like this will happen. I can't be mad at him for playing the game as much as I can be mad at the people for not holding him to task on obviously legit issues. It's ridiculous. We've not had a president with the characteristics you want in my lifetime. I doubt we ever have one in my lifetime either.
 
I guess I should by happy making the final four, but it is disappointing not to win. My position on this is....

Obama has a prett deent case that he was born in Hawaii. I would say better than 90% chance. I would move it to 100 percent if the original documentation had a doctors signature. Scanned in records acceptable. Even if it became apparent that Obama was born elsewhere, I don't see it changing many votes. People will make excuses as to why Obama lied and will tell us it is an outdated requirements. The courts will not do anything. Congress will not do anything.

At this point I am more curious than anything. Obama is behaving more inline with he is hiding something than he is as if it is some campaign strategy. I just think it is something that should be settled and that it is not somrthing unreasonable to ask for. Obama pushes for background checks on gunowners but a original birth certificate is too much to ask for? Give me a break.
The only people curious about this are fringe righties - i.e. the Beck crowd. Obama is best served ignoring your pleas and instead letting you guys continue to foam at the mouth over a non-issue. Every time this issue comes up, true moderate independents shake their head and are more likely to vote Obama in '12.
Is Trump a fringe rightie?Donald Trump praised Nancy Pelosi as "The best" (Politico)

Trump's political donations are left-leaning (Forbes)
Did you watch his recent interview? On this topic he is all-in, full-steam ahead, head-over-heels, over-the-top - fringe rightie.You didn't watch it did you?
Nope, I didn't watch the interview just like you didn't read those articles. Unless you're a speed reader.So one position on any one given matter dictates where you fall on the political spectrum? Obama is against gay marriage. Is he a Conservative?

Does a position on any one given matter erase your history which reflects a different overall picture?

 
I guess I should by happy making the final four, but it is disappointing not to win. My position on this is....Obama has a prett deent case that he was born in Hawaii. I would say better than 90% chance. I would move it to 100 percent if the original documentation had a doctors signature. Scanned in records acceptable. Even if it became apparent that Obama was born elsewhere, I don't see it changing many votes. People will make excuses as to why Obama lied and will tell us it is an outdated requirements. The courts will not do anything. Congress will not do anything.At this point I am more curious than anything. Obama is behaving more inline with he is hiding something than he is as if it is some campaign strategy. I just think it is something that should be settled and that it is not somrthing unreasonable to ask for. Obama pushes for background checks on gunowners but a original birth certificate is too much to ask for? Give me a break.
I'm sure the primary reason is that he, like most other people who think the Birthers are pissing into the wind, won't believe him regardless of what proof he comes up with
He could certainly marginalize the remainder and get that 31% Independents number down to the low 20's
 
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
1. Do state health departments permit such filings? Because it seems to me that if they did, we wouldn't have any illegal immigrants. Everyone would just go down to the health department and "file the paperwork" saying they were born here, or have their parents do it, or whatever. Sorry, that seems hihgly dubious.2. Do you know that these newspapers just reprint info given to them by health departments? Because most newspapers only print submissions, they don't take it upon themselves to reprint every filing at a government office. That's how local announcements have worked at every newspaper I've ever been aware of.
 
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
Ok, so i am grandma. I go down and say "Barak was born just a couple days ago and here's the paperwork necessary to produce the birth certificate. Please process". If the health department blindly files the paperwork, isn't it reasonable to think the paperwork says he was born in Hawaii? Won't they create the birth certificate based on the info given to them? In this theory, the birth certificate is nothing more than a formal documentation of the lie which is supposedly on the paperwork grandma filled out.
 
I ask this question politically....why? Why should he "settle" this?
My problem is that his response is political, instead of Presidential. He (and many of his supporters, and many of his opposition) just care about "gotcha" politics, winning news cycles, and scoring points against the other side, instead of behaving above that level. It's petty. It's not statesmanlike. And the behavior by both sides just hurts the country.The constitutional job requirements for the office are pretty clear and easy to meet... yet he refuses to give permission to the governor of Hawaii to prove he meets them. Why? What is the problem? Is this really how we want a President to act? Would Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, hell, even Millard Fillmore behave like this? Are we really OK with the leader of the country acting at the lowest level possible? This isn't baseball, we're not Yankees vs. Red Sox, we're all on the same team and we shouldn't be concerned with scoreboard watching on who bested who in the tabloids.

When faced with a coverup scandal, Jed Bartlet's motto became "Bring it on" I just wish we had a real president as good as NBC's fake one.

Oliver Babish: Then, order the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor. Not just any special prosecutor, the most blood-spitting, Bartlet-hating Republican in the Bar. He's gonna have an unlimited budget and a staff like an army. The new slogan around here is gonna be "Bring it on!" He's gonna have access to every piece of paper you ever touched. If you invoke executive privilege one time, I'm gone. An assistant D.A in Ducksworth wants to take your deposition, you're on the next plane. A freshman Congressman wants your testimony, you'll sit in his kitchen. They wanna drag you to The Hague and charge you with war crimes, what'll we say?

President Josiah Bartlet: Bring it on.
Not sure the distinction you are making here. Don't kid yourself president is the most political position in this country. I'm not making excuses for the guy but he's deflecting without even trying. He's getting exactly what he wants with little to no effort. Until folks wake up and understand that our government is all about deflection and it's a "politician vs the people" mentality, stuff like this will happen. I can't be mad at him for playing the game as much as I can be mad at the people for not holding him to task on obviously legit issues. It's ridiculous. We've not had a president with the characteristics you want in my lifetime. I doubt we ever have one in my lifetime either.
I agree, and this is what really frustrates me. There was just so much hope this guy would be different it's even more depressing to find out he's just like all the other liars from both sides.

 
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
1. Do state health departments permit such filings? Because it seems to me that if they did, we wouldn't have any illegal immigrants. Everyone would just go down to the health department and "file the paperwork" saying they were born here, or have their parents do it, or whatever. Sorry, that seems hihgly dubious.2. Do you know that these newspapers just reprint info given to them by health departments? Because most newspapers only print submissions, they don't take it upon themselves to reprint every filing at a government office. That's how local announcements have worked at every newspaper I've ever been aware of.
And here's another question- the newspaper announcements were from what, just afew days later? If they weren't in Hawaii when Obama was born, how the heck did they get there fast enough to file paperwork with the state in time for it to be processed and then make it into whatever notification system you think the newspapers had to receive such notices? Even your story, which you claim is "reasonable," would require a woman who has just given birth to hop on a plane almost immediately afterwards, fly with a days-old newborn to the island state of Hawaii (a few hours from anywhere else on earth), and file paperwork in a state office which requires no documentation whatsoever to certify that the claimed in-state birth actually occurred? Either that or they, what, enlist grandma to go to it via long-distance call from wherever it is baby Barack was just born? And the state accepts such undocumented filings from relatives not in the immediate family, of course? And of course, whoever filed the paperwork would have to know in advance that no such documentation was required by the state office, otherwise they risk being charged with defrauding the government just to establish baby Barack's citizenship.You see how maybe that's not that reasonable? Especially when there's a perfectly reasonable explanation that fits 99.99999999% of all other birth announcements and state-issued documents
 
I ask this question politically....why? Why should he "settle" this?
My problem is that his response is political, instead of Presidential. He (and many of his supporters, and many of his opposition) just care about "gotcha" politics, winning news cycles, and scoring points against the other side, instead of behaving above that level. It's petty. It's not statesmanlike. And the behavior by both sides just hurts the country.The constitutional job requirements for the office are pretty clear and easy to meet... yet he refuses to give permission to the governor of Hawaii to prove he meets them. Why? What is the problem? Is this really how we want a President to act? Would Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, hell, even Millard Fillmore behave like this? Are we really OK with the leader of the country acting at the lowest level possible? This isn't baseball, we're not Yankees vs. Red Sox, we're all on the same team and we shouldn't be concerned with scoreboard watching on who bested who in the tabloids.

When faced with a coverup scandal, Jed Bartlet's motto became "Bring it on" I just wish we had a real president as good as NBC's fake one.

Oliver Babish: Then, order the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor. Not just any special prosecutor, the most blood-spitting, Bartlet-hating Republican in the Bar. He's gonna have an unlimited budget and a staff like an army. The new slogan around here is gonna be "Bring it on!" He's gonna have access to every piece of paper you ever touched. If you invoke executive privilege one time, I'm gone. An assistant D.A in Ducksworth wants to take your deposition, you're on the next plane. A freshman Congressman wants your testimony, you'll sit in his kitchen. They wanna drag you to The Hague and charge you with war crimes, what'll we say?

President Josiah Bartlet: Bring it on.
Not sure the distinction you are making here. Don't kid yourself president is the most political position in this country. I'm not making excuses for the guy but he's deflecting without even trying. He's getting exactly what he wants with little to no effort. Until folks wake up and understand that our government is all about deflection and it's a "politician vs the people" mentality, stuff like this will happen. I can't be mad at him for playing the game as much as I can be mad at the people for not holding him to task on obviously legit issues. It's ridiculous. We've not had a president with the characteristics you want in my lifetime. I doubt we ever have one in my lifetime either.
I agree, and this is what really frustrates me. There was just so much hope this guy would be different it's even more depressing to find out he's just like all the other liars from both sides.
If it makes you feel any better, there are a lot of people in that boat.
 
I guess I should by happy making the final four, but it is disappointing not to win. My position on this is....

Obama has a prett deent case that he was born in Hawaii. I would say better than 90% chance. I would move it to 100 percent if the original documentation had a doctors signature. Scanned in records acceptable. Even if it became apparent that Obama was born elsewhere, I don't see it changing many votes. People will make excuses as to why Obama lied and will tell us it is an outdated requirements. The courts will not do anything. Congress will not do anything.

At this point I am more curious than anything. Obama is behaving more inline with he is hiding something than he is as if it is some campaign strategy. I just think it is something that should be settled and that it is not somrthing unreasonable to ask for. Obama pushes for background checks on gunowners but a original birth certificate is too much to ask for? Give me a break.
The only people curious about this are fringe righties - i.e. the Beck crowd. Obama is best served ignoring your pleas and instead letting you guys continue to foam at the mouth over a non-issue. Every time this issue comes up, true moderate independents shake their head and are more likely to vote Obama in '12.
Is Trump a fringe rightie?Donald Trump praised Nancy Pelosi as "The best" (Politico)

Trump's political donations are left-leaning (Forbes)
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I agree, and this is what really frustrates me. There was just so much hope this guy would be different it's even more depressing to find out he's just like all the other liars from both sides.
i tend to think he underestimated the existing order. the system takes care of itself. if obama - with everything he had going into office - was stymied by the beltway and wall street then what hope is there for reform from some other schmuck? he's not a liar, imo, but was unfamiliar with how business gets done. the beltway and wall street were willing to indulge his youthful exuberance but only to a point...
 
I guess I should by happy making the final four, but it is disappointing not to win. My position on this is....

Obama has a prett deent case that he was born in Hawaii. I would say better than 90% chance. I would move it to 100 percent if the original documentation had a doctors signature. Scanned in records acceptable. Even if it became apparent that Obama was born elsewhere, I don't see it changing many votes. People will make excuses as to why Obama lied and will tell us it is an outdated requirements. The courts will not do anything. Congress will not do anything.

At this point I am more curious than anything. Obama is behaving more inline with he is hiding something than he is as if it is some campaign strategy. I just think it is something that should be settled and that it is not somrthing unreasonable to ask for. Obama pushes for background checks on gunowners but a original birth certificate is too much to ask for? Give me a break.
The only people curious about this are fringe righties - i.e. the Beck crowd. Obama is best served ignoring your pleas and instead letting you guys continue to foam at the mouth over a non-issue. Every time this issue comes up, true moderate independents shake their head and are more likely to vote Obama in '12.
Is Trump a fringe rightie?Donald Trump praised Nancy Pelosi as "The best" (Politico)

Trump's political donations are left-leaning (Forbes)
Much like Mitt Romney, when Trump decided to run as a Republican for president (or flirt with the idea), his views on issues important to tea party types (abortion, birther, HCR) changed.
True. That's why I'm skeptical of both of these gentleman's sincerity on their positions.
 
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
1. Do state health departments permit such filings? Because it seems to me that if they did, we wouldn't have any illegal immigrants. Everyone would just go down to the health department and "file the paperwork" saying they were born here, or have their parents do it, or whatever. Sorry, that seems hihgly dubious.2. Do you know that these newspapers just reprint info given to them by health departments? Because most newspapers only print submissions, they don't take it upon themselves to reprint every filing at a government office. That's how local announcements have worked at every newspaper I've ever been aware of.
1. 49 states? No. Hawaii? yes. Each state has their own rules and Hawaii's is probably the most lax.2. Yes. Newspapers use official sources such as health departments, police departments, and fire departments to get obituary, births, arrests, and such type info. They don't send reporters to all area hospitals and try to track down the information themselves. If papers relied on submissions they would be incomplete.
 
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And here's another question- the newspaper announcements were from what, just afew days later? If they weren't in Hawaii when Obama was born, how the heck did they get there fast enough to file paperwork with the state in time for it to be processed and then make it into whatever notification system you think the newspapers had to receive such notices?

Even your story, which you claim is "reasonable," would require a woman who has just given birth to hop on a plane almost immediately afterwards, fly with a days-old newborn to the island state of Hawaii (a few hours from anywhere else on earth), and file paperwork in a state office which requires no documentation whatsoever to certify that the claimed in-state birth actually occurred? Either that or they, what, enlist grandma to go to it via long-distance call from wherever it is baby Barack was just born? And the state accepts such undocumented filings from relatives not in the immediate family, of course? And of course, whoever filed the paperwork would have to know in advance that no such documentation was required by the state office, otherwise they risk being charged with defrauding the government just to establish baby Barack's citizenship.

You see how maybe that's not that reasonable? Especially when there's a perfectly reasonable explanation that fits 99.99999999% of all other birth announcements and state-issued documents
No it does not. There are several possible alternatives. Maybe Obama was born on April 4th and not August 4th. Maybe mom phoned or telegraphed or mailed her mom about the birth and grandma took it upon herself to file for them. It is not the most likely scenario, but I have yet to see anyone sink this possibility. I still don't see anything that blows it out of the water.
 
1. 49 states? No. Hawaii? yes. Each state has their own rules and Hawaii's is probably the most lax.
Whoa. So Obama just "happened" to be born in the state with the most lax reporting rules. Seems to be an awful lot of "coincidences" piling up in here.
 
1. 49 states? No. Hawaii? yes. Each state has their own rules and Hawaii's is probably the most lax.
Whoa. So Obama just "happened" to be born in the state with the most lax reporting rules. Seems to be an awful lot of "coincidences" piling up in here.
:lmao:God bless you sir. If you're ever in town, beer's on me.
I can't believe a long form certificate hasn't surfaced yet. You know these documents get misplaced some times.
 
1. 49 states? No. Hawaii? yes. Each state has their own rules and Hawaii's is probably the most lax.
Whoa. So Obama just "happened" to be born in the state with the most lax reporting rules. Seems to be an awful lot of "coincidences" piling up in here.
Their laws are their laws. You really didn't have to be born in Hawaii to be eligible for a birth certificate there. Their laws were extremely lax and still are despite some tightening of the rules because of pressure from the US.... :shrug:
 
Even if he was born in Hawaii, that only makes him a citizen of the Royal sovereign nation of Hawaii, which was stolen from Queen Liliokalani in the late 19th century and which legally does not belong to the United States (at least, according to the Hawaiian separatist movement, which has had it with all you haoles stealing their land.)

Perhaps Obama is neither a Christian nor a Muslim, but instead a secret worshipper of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes...

 
The application forms back then have been shown to have "colored" as the choice of race for blacks, with a switch to "negro" around 1960/1961.
Link?
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.
:lol: You just keep on believing that will all your little heart. Race was not a "fill-in-the-blank", it was a check box selection, just as it is on government forms today.
You have a link to the 1961 formthat was available in Hawaii?Edited above.
Still looking for Bronco Billy to demonstrate that while he was questioning by naivety for "believing that will all your little heart" that he actually had some kind of evidence that there was a check box to back up his authoritative assertion. To prove he wasn't just making crap up on the fly.
 
'The Commish said:
'jon_mx said:
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
To be clear, for me, the "group" I am talking about is the people focused on and obsessed with this. I don't care if they are peddling false stories or have what they think is a legit angle. The obsession with it puts them in a category all of their own. Now, care to answer my question above regarding Obama's motive to "settle" this?
A category which includes jon, so I wonder why he's upset about people being lumped in his group. With his position, I'd think he'd want more company, not push people back away from the fringe zone he's staked out for himself.
 
'matuski said:
'jon_mx said:
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
You throw yourself in with the fringe on an hourly basis here. You don't see this?
No, he doesn't. That's the greatness that is Wrong_Mx. He'll rail and rail about something the Left does while he's doing it in the exact same post. He's a poster child for self delusion.
 
'jon_mx said:
'TobiasFunke said:
'jon_mx said:
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
How long after he was born would his mom do this? Cuz if it was a day or two after he was born, the chances are pretty good that it happened in HI. Generally, moms are present at births.
 
'jon_mx said:
'TobiasFunke said:
'jon_mx said:
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
How long after he was born would his mom do this? Cuz if it was a day or two after he was born, the chances are pretty good that it happened in HI. Generally, moms are present at births.
Maybe Obama was born a few months earlier. Maybe she phoned or wrote home and grandma did it. I don't know what happened, but until the original document is released, it is not 100% conclusive. There is a very strong circumstantial case for a Hawaiian birth. But I want to see the basis for Hawaii's position, because Hawaii has a long tradition of granting residents birth certificates whether they were born there or not.
 
'jon_mx said:
'TobiasFunke said:
'jon_mx said:
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight case. There are reasonable scenerios which don't involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
How long after he was born would his mom do this? Cuz if it was a day or two after he was born, the chances are pretty good that it happened in HI. Generally, moms are present at births.
Maybe Obama was born a few months earlier. Maybe she phoned or wrote home and grandma did it. I don't know what happened, but until the original document is released, it is not 100% conclusive. There is a very strong circumstantial case for a Hawaiian birth. But I want to see the basis for Hawaii's position, because Hawaii has a long tradition of granting residents birth certificates whether they were born there or not.
You have stated this several times, though I've never heard of it anywhere else. Therefore, I have two questions:1. Do you have a link to any study or even cursory examination of how states release birth certificates, which would indicate that Hawaii is especially lax? 2. Do you have a link to any examples of persons who have a birth certificate from Hawaii despite the fact that they were not born there? In other words, are there any examples of this "long tradition"?TIA
 
:tinfoilhat:If there ever were a more perfect use of that emoticon after reading what I've just read, I haven't seen it.
What is crazy about one person filing a document claiming birth for their son or grandson? I am not even sure what the conspiracy is? Explain. I thought there had to be multiple people involved. I thought it had to be an evil plot. This is just one person filing a paper so their son or grandson can get state benefits.
 
2. Do you have a link to any examples of persons who have a birth certificate from Hawaii despite the fact that they were not born there? In other words, are there any examples of this "long tradition"?

TIA
Probably
Update:

“It’s crazy,” said Janice Okubo, director of communications for the Hawaii Department of Health. “I don’t think anything is ever going to satisfy them.”

Okubo, who said that she gets weekly questions from Obama ‘Birthers’ that are “more like threats,” explained that the certificate of live birth reproduced by Obama’s campaign should have debunked the conspiracy theories. “If you were born in Bali, for example,” Okubo explained, “you could get a certificate from the state of Hawaii saying you were born in Bali. You could not get a certificate saying you were born in Honolulu. The state has to verify a fact like that for it to appear on the certificate. But it’s become very clear that it doesn’t matter what I say. The people who are questioning this bring up all these implausible scenarios. What if the physician lied? What if the state lied? It’s just become an urban legend at this point.”
Doesn't help the argument any.
 
'jon_mx said:
'TobiasFunke said:
'jon_mx said:
The tactic of lumping everyone in a group with the most fringe elements is a bore. Can you guys do better? Certainly there are loons peddling false stories, but the fact is this isn't a water tight c

ase. There are reasonable scenerios which don't

involve any grand conspiracies.
What the heck, I'll bite:Please explain to me the "reasonable scenario" in which Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii but somehow there exists not only a certificate of live birth

for him in the state but also two separate newspaper notices of his birth in the state.
It is really simple. Mom or grandma went down to the health department and filed the paperwork. Hawaii for decades have accepted such filings. These filings indicate he was born in Hawaii. The stae od Hawaii recognizes him as being born in Hawaii and certainly would provide an official COLB. Newpapers simply report what the health department provides them. The whole conspiracy comes down to one person filing a dalse report so their child or grandchild is eligible for benefits.
How long after he was born would his mom do this? Cuz if it was a day or two after he was born, the chances are pretty good that it happened in HI. Generally, moms are present at births.
Maybe Obama was born a few months earlier. Maybe she phoned or wrote home and grandma did it. I don't know what happened, but until the original document is released, it is not 100% conclusive. There is a very strong circumstantial case for a Hawaiian birth. But I want to see the basis for Hawaii's position, because Hawaii has a long tradition of granting residents birth certificates whether they were born there or not.
You have stated this several times, though I've never heard of it anywhere else. Therefore, I have two questions:1. Do you have a link to any study or even cursory examination of how states release birth certificates, which would indicate that Hawaii is especially lax?

2. Do you have a link to any examples of persons who have a birth certificate from Hawaii despite the fact that they were not born there? In other words, are there any examples of this "long tradition"?

TIA
1. Just their laws which state so.
Under Hawaiian law, it is possible (both legally and illegally) for a person to have been born out of state, yet have a birth certificate on file in the Department of Health.

A. From Hawaii's official Department of Health, Vital Records webpage: "Amended certificates of birth may be prepared and filed with the Department of Health, as provided by law, for 1) a person born in Hawaii who already has a birth certificate filed with the Department of Health or 2) a person born in a foreign country" (applies to adopted children).

B. A parent may register an in-state birth in lieu of certification by a hospital of birth under HRS 338-5.

C. Hawaiian law expressly provides for registration of out-of-state births under HRS 338-17.8. A foreign birth presumably would have been recorded by the American consular of the country of birth, and presumably that would be reflected on the Hawaiian birth certificate.

D. Hawaiian law, however, expressly acknowledges that its system is subject to error. See, for example, HRS 338-17.

E. Hawaiian law expressly provides for verification in lieu of certified copy of a birth certificate under HRS 338-14.3.

F. Even the Hawaii Department of Home Lands does not accept a certified copy of a birth certificate as conclusive evidence for its homestead program. :unsure:

From its web site: "In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL."
2. Long tradition? How about Sun Yat-sen, heard of him?
Sun Yat-sen was born on 12 November 1866 to a Hakka family in the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan.......In March 1904, he obtained a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth,[9] issued by the Territory of Hawaii, stating he was born on November 24, 1870 in Kula, Maui.[10]
 
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The more you look into this the more reason there is to be skeptical of the whole thing. $2 million in legal fees folks. You don't need to hide. My name is MOP, I'm an independent moderate, and I have doubts.

 
I can't believe you went Sun Yat-Sen, Jon. So over 100 years ago a guy who is seeking political refugee status provides a forgery to Hawaii before it was a state and THAT's your example? This is shtick, right?

Unbelievable.

 
The more you look into this the more reason there is to be skeptical of the whole thing. $2 million in legal fees folks. You don't need to hide. My name is MOP, I'm an independent moderate, and I have doubts.
I'll ask again, because you refused to answer the first time. Where did the 2 million in legal fees come from? Link?

 
The more you look into this the more reason there is to be skeptical of the whole thing. $2 million in legal fees folks. You don't need to hide. My name is MOP, I'm an independent moderate, and I have doubts.
I'll ask again, because you refused to answer the first time. Where did the 2 million in legal fees come from? Link?
I am not sure I buy the $2 million figure, but I don't think it is that relevant either. It is one of those often repeated numbers with no source that just becomes fact.
 
The more you look into this the more reason there is to be skeptical of the whole thing. $2 million in legal fees folks. You don't need to hide. My name is MOP, I'm an independent moderate, and I have doubts.
I'll ask again, because you refused to answer the first time. Where did the 2 million in legal fees come from? Link?
I am not sure I buy the $2 million figure, but I don't think it is that relevant either. It is one of those often repeated numbers with no source that just becomes fact.
Oh, there's a source all right. I just googled it. First there is a report from an online newspaper called the Tampa Bay Tribune which appears to be virulently anti-Obama. The source then reduces the amount to a million dollars, and then says the figure comes from a study launched by the "United States Justice Foundation". So I googled them- a 501 group closely affiliated with- you guessed it- WorldNetDaily.
 
I can't believe you went Sun Yat-Sen, Jon. So over 100 years ago a guy who is seeking political refugee status provides a forgery to Hawaii before it was a state and THAT's your example? This is shtick, right?

Unbelievable.
I was asked a specific question.
2. Do you have a link to any examples of persons who have a birth certificate from Hawaii despite the fact that they were not born there? In other words, are there any examples of this "long tradition"?
And I answered it... :thumbup:
 
Oh, there's a source all right. I just googled it. First there is a report from an online newspaper called the Tampa Bay Tribune which appears to be virulently anti-Obama. The source then reduces the amount to a million dollars, and then says the figure comes from a study launched by the "United States Justice Foundation". So I googled them- a 501 group closely affiliated with- you guessed it- WorldNetDaily.
This should clear it all up.

 
Oh, there's a source all right. I just googled it. First there is a report from an online newspaper called the Tampa Bay Tribune which appears to be virulently anti-Obama. The source then reduces the amount to a million dollars, and then says the figure comes from a study launched by the "United States Justice Foundation". So I googled them- a 501 group closely affiliated with- you guessed it- WorldNetDaily.
This should clear it all up.
I love the subject titles in that website: "Rothchild", "Illuminati", "Soros". Scroll down and you get the Lyndon LaRouche ad.
 
Maybe Obama was born a few months earlier. Maybe she phoned or wrote home and grandma did it. I don't know what happened, but until the original document is released, it is not 100% conclusive. There is a very strong circumstantial case for a Hawaiian birth. But I want to see the basis for Hawaii's position, because Hawaii has a long tradition of granting residents birth certificates whether they were born there or not.
What is crazy about one person filing a document claiming birth for their son or grandson? I am not even sure what the conspiracy is? Explain. I thought there had to be multiple people involved. I thought it had to be an evil plot. This is just one person filing a paper so their son or grandson can get state benefits.
Crazy isn't the idea of one person filing a document claiming birth for their son or grandson. Crazy is wanting SO BADLY for something to be true that one will do anything and everything they possibly can to exhaust their potential for finding said truth. And then when the truth they seek simply isn't there?! They rally/regroup with a war cry of "well, they haven't proven it's NOT true either."We both know there is a 99% chance that the definitive proof (either way) you are seeking was lost/discarded decades ago. You take the position that means Obama is lying and/or up to no good. The rest of us take that to mean that the records you are seeking were lost/discarded decades ago. Just like if you asked me to locate my original birth certificate, I couldn't do it. I have a passport, but I couldn't locate my original birth certificate before I got that passport approved before going to Japan...and then renewed before going to Italy. Does that mean I'm lying about ever having an "original" birth certificate, however? Am I up to some sinister plan to destroy the world?

Okay, crazy is a poor choice of words. Rather, it's a combination of hope, hatred, and/or some perverse love-child of the two. Kind of like if I tell you that unicorns are real. You ask me to produce proof. I provide 30 theories for where they live, where they've lived, why no unicorn remains have ever been found, why no photos/video of unicorns are available as "proof" that haven't been proven as fakes, et al. You continue to ask "where's the proof?!" and when I can't produce it and don't know how to prove it, I get the warm, fuzzy blanket of "you haven't proven unicorns AREN'T real either!" to protect my psyche.

Kind of like all the guys on this board who think I'm cuckoo for cocoa puffs because of my supposed experiences with ghosts and demons, eh?! ;) I know it's true because of what I believe and have experienced. Not a shadow of a doubt in my mind. You ask for proof. About the best I can do is try and describe experiences that don't seem to have explanation...experiences that my wife, daughters, neighbor, sister, niece, etc. have shared, which is about the equivalent (to you) of me producing some nice "CG" of a unicorn. I eventually give up, since you're not going to be convinced that ghosts/demons exist...and wrap myself in that warm, fuzzy blanket of "well, if he could walk a mile in my shoes, he might see things differently" (AKA go ahead and prove me wrong).

Trust me, I get it. From both sides of the coin! Only Obama was born in Hawai'i...and ghosts/demons exist. :D Unicorns? Show me proof...lol.

 
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