The Sleuth (WaPo): A Birth Certificate By Any Other Name

By Mary Ann Akers | July 31, 2009; 4:15 PM ET

It seems nothing will deter the conspiracy theorists known as birthers, who have become the bane of the Republican Party's existence with their (dare we say wacky) claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and, therefore, is not a natural born citizen.

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They're also fixated on the type of birth document issued by the Hawaiian government, which is called a "certification of live birth." They refuse for some reason to believe that a certification is the same as a birth certificate.

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But still, the birthers ask, why won't President Obama release his original birth certificate and possibly bury the issue once and for all?

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent answer to this question: "Why should he? The demand has no basis in principle and would have no practical benefit."

James Taranto writes in his "Best of the Web" column, "Obama has already provided a legal birth certificate demonstrating that he was born in Hawaii. No one has produced any serious evidence to the contrary. Absent such evidence, it is unreasonable to deny that Obama has met the burden of proof. We know that he was born in Honolulu as surely as we know that Bill Clinton was born in Hope, Ark., or George W. Bush in New Haven, Conn.

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They were trying to go to the SCOTUS!! It won't even make it to one day of hearing!
Courts REQUIRE evidence.

so it doesn't matter how much physical evidence there is.

"why does everybody keep saying that obama is a blace president, when he has a white mother and is a muslim, in my opion he is just as much white as he is black and he is definetly a muslim. remember his full name 'HUSSEn" just like huduem hussen. i am not prediduce, if he was any other black person in high office and had got elected president it would be just as proud as to have a black president as a white president. but the truth is the truth, the musslems have been wanting to take over our country and what better way than for us to elect a muslem as president. there are a lots of black men and women that i think would make a good president, condelessa rice is one of them. and several men i have seen as senators or rep. i think that he should be honest enought to produce his original birth certificate. it is very easy to fake any documents to day."

Posted by: cjohnson7777charternet | July 31, 2009 5:41 PM


I'm thinking these days that GOP stands for "Gone off Prozac".

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My regard for their opinion just fell into the toilet.

Very funny.

Unless you are a Freepturd, then the truth means what you want it to mean.

His mother was a citizen, so he's a citizen.

Frackin' birthers are brain dead.

constitution.

That being said, its obvious Barack Obama is a natural born citizen anyway.

Loony birthers...

From the WSJ piece referenced in your article:


I'm rec'ing just because of this one sentence!! :headbang:

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