I was perusing my usual sites today and ran across this from Neal Boortz:
http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2011/01/and-finally.html
Making this the last item ... because that's where I put it in importance. For now. It's just that something rather curious has become even curiouser. I'm talking about the Barack Obama birth certificate stuff.
No ... I'm not a birther ... but there are some things that have happened lately that you really just cannot ignore.
In December some character named Neil Abercrombie is sworn in as Governor of Hawaii. Now I'm sure that Hawaii, like most other states, has a few problems that need to be addressed. But Governor Abercrombie seemed to think that the issue of Barack Obama's birth certificate was near the top ... not because he had any doubts about whether or not Obama was actually born in Hawaii ... but because he wanted to take that birth certificate and essentially shove it down the throats of those pesky birthers out there.
Birthers? OK .. here's the deal. These are people who say that Obama isn't a natural-born citizen of the United States and is thus serving as President illegally. They say he was either born in Kenya or Indonesia. They say that the certificate of live birth that has been shown as proof of Obama's citizenship is actually proof of nothing more than the fact that someone brought the infant Obama to a hospital in Hawaii claiming that he had been born at home, and the hospital issued a certificate essentially saying "yup ... it's a baby all right, and here it is in our hospital in Hawaii!" The claim is that the certificate of live birth only proves that Obama was born, not where he was born.
OK ... so here we have Governor Abercromcie. He's on the spot because he volunteered to "..do what I can do" to publicly verify that records show Obama was born in Hawaii and is a citizen of the United States. He wanted to put this thing to rest so that it wouldn't be an issue in 2012.
So ... how's that going for the governor? The Honolulu Star Advertiser 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?" The only answer the media gets from Abercrombie is that an investigation has "unearthed papers" proving Obama is a citizen. Those papers haven't been produced. He says "it's written in the archives, written down." But nothing produced.
The London Daily Mail has now weighed in, saying that "It became apparent that what had been discovered was an unspecified listing or notation of Obama's birth that someone had made in the state archives and not a birth certificate." The Daily Mail says that Abercrombie suggested that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate may not, in fact, exist.
Why bring this up? If you listen to me you know that my position is that we should forget this birther stuff and just concentrate on defeating this dangerous man in 2012 and continuing to undo the damage he has done in his ongoing efforts to "radically transform" our Republic. But the Hawaii governor stepped up to say he was going to put the controversy to rest. It's time to perform. If he doesn't .... Then the controversy grows.
