Obama's birth certificate sealed by Hawaii governor

...Rove et. al are assuming they have what you'd call a "free down" in football; in other words, they're going to keep their mouths shut and only if Oinkbama wins are they going to call him on it.

Well, regardless of his being born in Hawaii, Hawaii is not part of the United States, so he ought to be disqualified

Hawaii is the only state that has an official native language. Statehood had been proposed many times throughout Hawaii's history, but it was not until 1959 that Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States.

I really thought we’d put this conspiracy theory to rest over the summer, but it has arisen like a zombie yet again to suck the credibility out of the conservative blogosphere.

A court is hearing this case, so it must be serious" Any fool with a lawyer and a couple of hundred dollars can file a lawsuit. That’s one of the reasons why tort reform is so badly needed. Frivolous lawsuits cost consumers billions of dollars. Conservatives used to make that argument, at least until Phillip Berg filed this lawsuit.

Why isn’t Obama answering the lawsuit? " Maybe because it’s ridiculous, and Berg has no standing to file it anyway.

Why not produce the birth certificate? " Obama has … twice now, once on his website and once to Fact Check.

Well, then, why didn’t he produce it sooner, smart guy? " Sooner than what? This came up at the end of the primaries, and the Obama campaign produced it within a couple of weeks. So far, that hasn’t done much to quell the conspiracy theories.

Why not produce the original birth certificate? " Most people, I’d wager, don’t have their own original birth certificate. If you applied to get your records, in most states you’d get what Obama has - a certification of live birth spit out from a computer system. I doubt Hawaii has the original record any longer, either. The certification proves citizenship well enough to get a passport.

-Ed Morrissey, HotAir.com, October 12, 2008

Obama's birth certificate sealed by Hawaii governor

It is the government's responsibility to provide a natural born citizen as a legitimate candidate.

If Obama or the government doesn't provide proof, he is not eligible whether he wins or not.

I knew you would remember this poster, joefromchicago!

And, btw, Gov. Linda Lingle of Hawaii is a Republican. She would have no reason to shield the Democratic nominee. (Unless, of course, she wants to hurt McCain, jealous because he chose the governor of Alaska for a running mate instead of the governor of Hawaii. )

How a conservative blogger addressed this issue:

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I really thought we’d put this conspiracy theory to rest over the summer, but it has arisen like a zombie yet again to suck the credibility out of the conservative blogosphere.

A court is hearing this case, so it must be serious" Any fool with a lawyer and a couple of hundred dollars can file a lawsuit. That’s one of the reasons why tort reform is so badly needed. Frivolous lawsuits cost consumers billions of dollars. Conservatives used to make that argument, at least until Phillip Berg filed this lawsuit.

Why isn’t Obama answering the lawsuit?" Maybe because it’s ridiculous, and Berg has no standing to file it anyway.

Why not produce the birth certificate?" Obama has … twice now, once on his website and once to Fact Check.

Well, then, why didn’t he produce it sooner, smart guy? " Sooner than what? This came up at the end of the primaries, and the Obama campaign produced it within a couple of weeks. So far, that hasn’t done much to quell the conspiracy theories.

Why not produce the original birth certificate? " Most people, I’d wager, don’t have their own original birth certificate. If you applied to get your records, in most states you’d get what Obama has - a certification of live birth spit out from a computer system. I doubt Hawaii has the original record any longer, either. The certification proves citizenship well enough to get a passport.

-Ed Morrissey, HotAir.com, October 12, 2008

Or, when Obama was in Hawaii a few days ago he made sure that the birth certificate was not authorized to be released? If everything is as he says it is, why wouldn't he simply authorize the state to release the birth certificate? Why not present it to a judge and have the matter ruled on it once and for all? Why has the Kenyan government refused to release any information there until after the election? Could it be that this would prove once and for all that the birth certificate posted on the website and/or provided to Obama-friendly sources was a fake? And he knew his friends wouldn't look too closely?

Probably there is nothing to this. But you know good and well that if all this secrecy protected at high levels pertained to John McCain, you guys would be hollering to high heaven and accusing him of all kinds of presumed dishonesty and deception.

We are heading towards a “Constitutional Crisis” if this issue is not resolved.

It is the government's responsibility to provide a natural born citizen as a legitimate candidate (US Constitution, Article II, Section 1).

Even if Obama was born in Hawaii, he lost his U.S. citizenship when his mother married an Indonesian citizen...

I'm sure you release your birth certificate to all who ask.

And my recollection is that John McCain has not released his own birth certificate. Why the secrecy? Could there be something to the rumor that he is ineligible to run? Why hasn't John McCain put this to rest?