The original has been retracted because the evidence just doesn’t back it up.
If President Obama found a state-issued birth certificate among his family papers, it would most likely have been a negative photocopy, like that seen from the 1966 issuance of a certificate for the Nordyke twins.
Here we continue the analysis of a A Catalog of Evidence – Concerned Americans Have Good Reason to Doubt that Putative President Obama Was Born in Hawaii by attorney Mario Apuzzo. We’re adding up the value of the items in his catalog picking up from Birther math Part 4.
So far our total is zero. Parts 1 and 2 summed a compendium of non-specific statements from people who had no reason to know what Apuzzo would lead us to think they said. Part 3 covered primarily innuendo based on the lack of evidence. Part 4 features innuendo about Obama’s birth certificate, plus the unsubstantiated claim that some unnamed expert says that it’s a forgery. Nothing he has presented so far would be admissible as evidence in court except possibly the Indonesian school registration (properly attested). The rest at best it is hearsay, and at worst outright misrepresentation.
Let’s move on to item 21.
(21) In 1961 it was not very difficult for a family member to defraud the State of Hawaii by registering and claiming a child was born there when he or she was not and obtain a Hawaiian birth certificate. Birth registration fraud was easy in Hawaii and other areas as this recent article attests.; (more…)
Here we continue the analysis of a A Catalog of Evidence – Concerned Americans Have Good Reason to Doubt that Putative President Obama Was Born in Hawaii by attorney Mario Apuzzo. We’re adding up the value of the items in his catalog picking up from Birther math Part 3.
So far our total is zero. Parts 1 and 2 summed a compendium of non-specific statements from people who had no reason to know what Apuzzo would lead us to think they said. Part 3 covered primarily innuendo based on the lack of evidence. Nothing thing he has presented so far would be admissible as evidence in court, since at best it is hearsay, and at worst outright misrepresentation. Apuzzo continues to rely on the tabloid web site WorldNetDaily for his research.
Let’s move on to item 16.
(16) Obama’s application to the Franciscus Assisi Primary School in Indonesia states he was an Indonesian citizen; (more…)
Thanks to an email, presumably from a birther, telling me that the authentic Kenyan birth certificate of President Barack Obama has been found. The certificate is the old Bomford hoax, but what was interesting was what WorldNetDaily said about it in their article titled Is this really smoking gun of Obama’s Kenyan birth? (August 2, 2009). They wrote:
WND was able to obtain other birth certificates from Kenya for purposes of comparison, and the form of the documents appear to be identical.
I did a double take when I saw that. Why? Because WorldNetDaily said 4 days later (August 6, 2009) in the article Obama birth doc update: Kenya sources weigh in:
…an authentic 1961-era Kenyan birth certificate obtained by WND shows distinct differences. (more…)
Ron Polland (the fake Internet document expert who used to call himself Dr. Ron Polarik) has produced the most outrageously fraudulent, lie filled, and total bullshit video on YouTube that I have ever seen. I was left speechless by the breadth and the audacity of it.
Given that his PhD is real, he must not be an idiot. What does that leave? You figure it out.
Here is the damned thing, but first I spit on it. I hope Dr. Fukino sues his sorry ass. This video is clearly malicious slander.
Update: One of the points Polland makes that I haven’t talked about on this blog before relates to his claim that the State of Hawaii changed the form of their birth certificate just to somehow (and it’s vague to me for what purpose) legitimize the Obama posted Birth Certificate (COLB) that Polland claims is a forgery.
Published comments from the Department of Health tell us that the Department went paperless in 2001 and the form revision date at the bottom of the Obama COLB (printed in 2007) shows a revision date of 11/01. Polarik makes a huge deal that the State changed the COLB in 2008, in the SAME MONTH that Dr. Fukino made a public statement saying the the State of Hawaii had Obama’s records according to regulation. However, if you had asked me whether or not Hawaii had changed the certificate in 2008 without any reference to Obama, I would had said that likely they did. Why? Because the National Standard Birth Certificate, published by the National Center for Health Statistics, changed in 2003 and states typically follow with the redesign of their systems in about 3-7 years. (Some take longer.) Therefore we would normally expect Hawaii to tweak the certificate around 2008.
Thanks for the comments left here by others who have followed more closely the every changing version of truth coming from Ron Polland.
Birthers sometimes suggest that Grandmother Dunham filed a report by mail with the Hawaii Department of Health to register the birth of President Obama. The statute in force at the time stated that in the case of an attended birth, for which the parents were unable to file a birth certificate, it was the responsibility of the local registrar to obtain the necessary information, and fill out the form. So no grandmother mail-in.
That still leaves the theoretical possibility that one of President Obama’s parents filled out a form and mailed it in. Since filing a birth certificate falsely is a crime according to the statute, I think it reasonable to assume that anyone filing a certificate would either have to have it notarized if mailed in, or witnessed by the local registrar if filed in person. So what about that “mail in form,” is it possible?
I thought I would nail down this sucker once and for all by asking the Hawaii Department of Health whether they had “mail-in forms” in 1961. The answer was that there is no one still working there who was around in 1961. They cannot confirm an answer. The 1949 provision on the “forms of certificates” doesn’t tell us anything. I think this is the end of the trail on the mail-in form.
I for one, think that there was only one form in 1961, a form we’ve seen for the Nordyke twins. I believe that if Obama was registered, it was using this form. Occam’s razor asks us why we would want to imagine 2 forms, but can I prove that there weren’t two forms? Can I prove there weren’t two hundred? Can I prove that there wasn’t a different form just for births on August 4, 1961 to someone whose father was “African” that said in small print “Happy Birthday to our future president”? No, I can’t, nor do I think I likely that I ever will. I’m not losing sleep over it.
There are just some things we don’t know and probably won’t find out.
(June 22) Internet evangelist Bill Keller has offered Rachel Maddow $10,000 to produce Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate. Keller’s web site is LivePrayer.com. Hmmm. I wonder if that’s his money or the Lord’s money he’s offering?
Keller said [according to ChristianNewsWire], “I am not interested in the Certificate of Live Birth the President has produced, since anyone can get that with a phone call. Also, the newspaper birth announcements came from the ordering of the Certificate of Live Birth.
Keller is a bit confused. The “long form” is titled “Certificate of Live Birth.” But let’s see Keller’s Hawaiian certificate and newspaper announcement!
Here’s Keller’s Obama citizenship denial video. Includes Gary Kreep interview, and some very ominous music.
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