Posted on 08/01/2009 4:15:36 AM PDT by nathanbedford
The Irony of His Birth
It is ironic that the "state-controlled" media have brought this matter nearly to a boil only after the main props of the Birther argument have been dashed or dramatically weakened so that there can be little doubt left that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii which his underlying long form certificate will confirm. [For a more complete analysis leading to the conclusion that the documents will show the birth of Obama in Hawaii, please see my reply: Suborned in the U.S.A. - The birth-certificate controversy is about Obama’s honesty...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2304411/posts?page=49#49]
Two revelations undercut both the evidence that he was born in Kenya and the argument that his underlying and suppressed Birth Certificate could under the laws of Hawaii be at variance with his published Certification of Live Birth. The first was dashed by a You Tube audio which conclusively demonstrated that the original audio in which Obama's grandmother said she witnessed his birth in Kenya was, in effect, cropped. In the extended version she disavowed any such reference and maintained that he was born in Hawaii. The second was severely weakened by the statement of Doctor Fukino which, when read in pari materia with her previous statement of October 31, makes it clear that she and a colleague have examined the underlying birth certificate and it says that Obama was born in Hawaii.
Before the publication of the extended YouTube audio and the release of the second statement by the officials of Hawaii, there was plenty of room to believe that Obama could have been born abroad. So long as the direct evidence that he was born in Kenya existed, and while the inference could reasonably be drawn from the officials' first statement of October 31, 2008 that the underlying birth certificate did not necessarily recite that he was born in Hawaii, the birthers were behaving reasonably and indeed, patriotically, in demanding to see the original birth certificate and raising the issue of Barack Obama's status as a natural born citizen.
While the birthers were behaving reasonably, or at least many of them here on Free Republic were behaving reasonably, the media were not. They certainly were not behaving professionally. They persistently and willfully, conflated the published "Certificate of Live Birth" with a regular longform "Birth Certificate." The Birthers kept shouting back that there was a real and significant difference between the two documents and Obama was hiding the latter but the media resolutely continued to ignore that difference. The media recited that the October 31 statement of Doctor Fukino, standing alone, was dispositive of the issue when that logically that was not true. I can recall the instance of Chris Matthews holding up a document for a close up to the camera, but not close enough to reveal the header, which said " Certification of Live Birth," while he proclaimed that it was the "Birth Certificate." Of course, virtually no one in the mainstream media bothered to explain to the people the real and significant potential difference between the two documents and the underlying statute which might have permitted Obama's mother to aver that she was a resident of Hawaii for one year and thus secure a Certification of Live Birth reciting a birth in Hawaii for her son, Barack, even though the original longform Birth Certificate might have recited a birth somewhere else, for example, the place where Barack's grandmother told us on You Tube that she had witnessed the birth, in Kenya.
It is ironic that these revelations have come out just as the mainstream media has begun to take up the issue and, if not to support the Birthers, at least no longer to ignore them to death but to give them the publicity which is the oxygen a media feeding frenzy needs. The media has still declined to get down into the weeds and make a clear presentation to the general public about the elements in dispute. It continues to report the matter alternatively that the Birthers are "crazed right wing nuts" or, "why doesn't Obama released a birth certificate already?" The media as usual is reporting the matter in terms of personalities rather than substance: who is crazy and who is furtive.
Why should this be happening now? Why is the media giving bandwidth to the Birther movement now?
First, I do not believe that the media is bringing this to a crescendo now because it sees an opportunity to discredit the right because of the new revelations that I have recited. I don't think most of them are fully aware of the significance of these developments. Bill O'Reilly made that obvious on his show when he said that he examined the Birth Certificate when he obviously had examined the Certification of Live Birth and betrayed that he does not know the difference between them and, since he does not know the difference, he does not understand the issue. I think O'Reilly is illustrative of most of the media who are very busy and see this as either a ratings gainer or a ratings loser. I think the media are coming to the conclusion that the issue can be a ratings gainer and they are much impressed by the notoriety gained by Lou Dobbs. Dobbs got the best of both worlds, he has the politically correct position in opposition to the birthers, but he has also asked for the exposure of a birth certificate showing that he is in favor of transparency, and, most important in this industry, he got a ton of publicity.
There is another factor which I think is even more important. The magic has gone out of the Magic Negro. One can see the brouhaha over the arrest of Professor Gates as a reaction to a mistake made by Barack Obama but I think the significance of that flapdoodle is that the media now want to take Obama on. Obama's mistake just came at the wrong time. One need not cite gaffe after gaffe committed by Obama during the campaign, through the inauguration, and until very recently, which was utterly ignored or explained away by the media to illustrate its disgraceful bias in favor of electing the first African-American president. The media, like the gods, first build up those whom they will destroy.
The reaction of many FReepers to the second statement of Doctor Fukino saying that the "vital records" show the birth of Barack Obama to be in Hawaii, is interesting. Many will simply not let go of their Confederate money. Others are beginning to see that the issue of where Barack Obama is born is a metaphor for his whole life. They recognize that it was Obama's lack of candor and transparency which ultimately has kept this issue alive and in fact was the oxygen for the fire. I am personally convinced that the underlying birth certificate will show a birth in Hawaii. What else it might reveal about Barack Obama and why he so desperately wants to keep it concealed is not knowable. But it makes for great stuff politically and every ounce of it should be exploited. We have been beaten up on this issue since before the election but now the public is in a different mood and the matter of the birth certificate of Barack Obama is beginning to cost him dear because the public and even the media are beginning to demand an accounting from Barack Obama. The demand for his birth certificates is but a figure for all their fears and anxieties about the man who seems to want, not to govern, but to rule over them.
It is time for the Birther movement to articulate a broader rationale for their demands that Obama produce his birth certificate. They should not be grounded alone in arguments that he is not a natural born citizen, but that he has concealed every significant document which records any part of his life since the time of his birth. The argument should be made that Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America, is a mountebank no matter where he was born and the people of the United States are entitled to know the truth about his whole life. It is an odd quirk of human nature that we as a society will endure a series of insults from our politicians dumbly and then, almost unaccountably, rise up in indignation over some triviality. We saw this applied against the Democrats in the House banking scandal. Today, our people are being abused by their own politicians perhaps as never before. They are yearning for an issue which they can seize upon and vent against Obama. Their cares might be taxes, and healthcare, and fears for their children's future, but their complaint is that he will not release his damn birth certificate!
The issue should be used as a vehicle to continue to assault the mainstream media for their bias and to force them to confront other issues as they arise. One is either on defense or offense and it is better to be on offense against the media even though I have little hope that their tribal culture and taboos can be changed.
One quick historical note on the media: When Paula Jones' lawsuit against Bill Clinton was being derided as the legal convulsion of a "slut and a nut," Stuart Taylor Jr. wrote a piece in the American Lawyer which laid out in scholarly detail the facts which showed that Paula Jones did in fact have a case, that she was entitled to a hearing, and that she was not a "nut." That article actually turned the coverage of the lawsuit around which led to the whole Monica Lewinsky affair and made possible the events which led to the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton. The parallel to the treatment of the Birthers today is obvious. It is only a matter of time before some enterprising journalist gets into the weeds and reports the nuts and bolts of the birther controversy. It behooves us to make the record clear before that happens that the demand for Obama's birth certificate and the rest of his Life's documents is justified for compelling reasons of good government quite independent from the argument that he is not a natural born citizen. This must be done before a new Stuart Taylor Jr. writes his piece.
Most importantly, the argument of Andrew McCarthy which was the subject of an article by him which was presented on these threads should be adopted. It was one that I had made before his article appeared. The secrets of Obama's birth are but a symbol of the dark secrets of his life. The dark secrets of his life are that he is a Manchurian Marxist bent on the radicalization of America or worse. The dark secrets of his life show that he is governing as he lived. The summons to produce a birth certificate in accordance with the constitutional mandate is but a metaphor for the call to govern in accordance with the Constitution.
The irony Of the Birther movement might be that it brings down Barack Obama after all.
Please explain.
There was a theory some time ago that BHO's mother and her parents and he himself might have been involved in money transfers on behalf of a foreign interest. It included the allegation that his mother might be alive and living in NYC.
I don't have a source.
BO, the international man of mystery, and he fully intends to keep it that way.
Everything she has stated has been based on “vital records”. Records that Obama **himself** may have filed.
Hawaiian officials are deliberately and carefully obfuscating.
“39 Social Security Numbers”
It was introduced as discoverable evidence (I think that is the correct term) by Dr. Orly Taitz in a court filing. She had done the background leading up to the filing. I believe it is the case Alan Keyes is part of.
I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawai'i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai'i State Department of Health verifying Barrack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai'i and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...."
Those policies and procedures say the birthers would be to accept the Kenyan birth certificate and issue a certificate of live birth showing birth in Hawaii. Now Doctor Fukino explicitly states that Obama was born in Hawaii and that fact is recorded in the "vital records":
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you. You stated that the birther position was that Hawaii would accept the Kenyan birth certificate and then issue a certificate of live birth showing birth in Hawaii, so long as his mother averred that she was a resident of Hawaii for one year preceding the birth. Nonsense. The only person I have ever heard advance that position is you. I have never heard anyone else advance the idea that Hawaii would take a certificate saying that Obama was born in Kenya and turn around and issue a certificate saying he was born in Hawaii. That would be perjury. Where did you come up with that idea? The laws on the books at the time were that the mother (or even grandmother) could state, under oath, that baby Barak was born in Hawaii, and the state would accept this and issue a birth certificate to that effect. As far as I am concerned, that is still the case.
The doctor stated that she has "seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai'i State Department of Health verifying Barrack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii". My translation of this is that she has seen the affidavits from mommy and/or granny stating the Obama was born in Hawaii. As far as these record "verifying" his place of birth, well let's see, what does Encarta say about the word "verify"? Encarta: swear something under oath law in law, to swear or affirm under oath that something is true. The only thing that I am reading in her statements is that she has seen the original affidavit from mommy and/or grandmommy stating the Obami was born in Hawaii. That's still not proof. Fukino has stated that she has seen the original birth certificate on file. Which original? The one that they issued? So let's she, she has stated that she has seen the original affidavits that mommy/granny signed, and has seen the original birth certificate that was produced by them. As far as I am concerned her statements still sum up to nothing.
Has the hospital where he was born produced any independent records of his birth? Have they found the doctor or nurse? Now that Fukino has "put the matter to rest", Obama now has absolutely positively no reason not to release the long form. Yet he has not. Sorry, but until I see the long form, with signatures, that match up with hospital records, and said long form is vetted by the Governor (i.e. it matches up with the copy she has squirreled away), as far as I am concerned, there is no proof.
You did write a nice article, but it was all based on your position that Hawaii traded a "born in Kenya" document for a "born in Hawaii" document. (A position that you then tried to attribute to us.) Still absurd.
P.S. You mention the full version YouTube audio where Kenyan Granny reversed herself. I have also heard the audio of the radio interview with the Kenyan ambassador. In it, he stated that there is a shrine to Obamas birthplace in Kenya, they are quite proud of it, and that Obamas Kenyan birth is common knowledge. My my my, who to believe?
P.S.S. I've never owned any Confederate money, and I've never tried to print my own.
PS: You are my new Common Tator. I miss him.
d-o, this article is all fine and good but for two things. First, the bc isn’t going to be produced because this controversy is making all of conservativism look like a movement of deluded loons. Of far greater concern is the fact that the birther movement, even here on FR, has turned into a movement of anti-military seditionists who are actively encouraging mutiny in the armed forces in time of war. There are active duty personnel, master and senior chiefs, at the base near my office who think Free Republic has turned into a nihilist site because of the bandwidth this bc nonsense has been given here.
Very well stated.
I’m past the issue of the location of his birth. The existing evidence says he was born in Hawaii, and that he meets the ‘natural born citizen’ criteria.
BUT, it is still very odd that he would spend so much money to conceal his long form BC, and in fact would conceal all pertinent documents, from college records to medical records.
Pure and simple, he is hiding something.
Things that are produced by job applicators for lesser jobs, everyday o the week.
I have said all along that my suspicions are not that the original long form birth certificate will show that Obama was born someplace else -- rather that there's something else he's trying to hide.
It could be that the long form is not his original BC but an "amended" BC stemming from his adoption by Soetoro. It could be an original BC that shows no father or identifies him as illegitimate. It could show his race as "White". There are all sorts of possibilities.
Those possibilities probably extend into his other records (my money's on his having claimed Indonesian citizenship in order to get some sort of foreign student advantage, whether in reduced admission requirements or financial aid). That's why in my opinion he's had to try to hide his entire past. It just won't bear close examination.
What puzzles me is why he's been allowed to do this. He is the MOST cryptic candidate we've ever had for just about any major office.
WOW..what an articulate post!!!!!
Did you read the post? All of it?
Because the point being made is that the breaking out of the story into the MSM may be a precursor to some actual digging into the rest of Obama’s murky past on the part of the amazingly uncourious ususal suspects.
At least, that’s what I took away from it.
Depending on outside sources, particularly political parties, amounts to malfeasance. Official in each state must personally review, and examine, official documents, NOT internet facsimiles, before placing a name on the ballot. Failure to do may result in voters being disenfranchised if they cast their votes for an unqualified candidate.
As one who is sworn to defend The Constitution, I have been labeled a "Birther" (I've been called much worse) because I believe that all provisions should be upheld. I therefore will not let this issue rest, until the numerous questions concerning 0bama's citizenship are answered. I firmly believe that the available evidence points to the conclusion that he is a usurper, and not legally President or Commander in Chief. Prior to the election in 2012, each state must take action to ensure that candidates listed on their ballot meet the qualifications under the Constitution.
If Hawii became a State on August 21, 1959 and Obama was born on August 4,1961 which should exclude him from being considered a citizen.
Lets hope the media doesn't also make mad those they want to destroy. Obama has an nuclear arsenal at his finger tips. The media is as you say “a tribal culture” with taboos and the expiation of white man's guilt by a black dictator may not be what they had in mind — they're not that African tribal — in the end. They will hold his toes to the communal fire, roast him a bit and get him to account... and then maybe destroy him. We'll see. What we may not see is the full vetting of Obama, his past laid out. I doubt if the media is that strong to have Obama reveal everything. The transparency would destroy him — at least his hold on the American public with the mystery, the psychological projection screen gone for good.
I'm sure this is not going away. It might as you say lead to Obama's downfall. With those inauguration Greek pillars we may see a Greek tragedy unfold in the end. Again, great work!
Excellent Saturday morning coffee read...thanks!
39 Social Secuity Numbers...how is that possible. Have you seen it? It this the same as 57 states in the United States?
ACCURATE
Concise and very well presented but I vehemently object to lumping all birthers into one.
[Obama] is a Manchurian Marxist bent on the radicalization of America or worse
Yes he is. Obama earned that singularity because as you say, he is a mountebank; otherwise..
I remember the 1960s and I am wont to say that Obama is an ideological issue (child) of the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble. Now the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party)
(That ain't name calling. The Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble really have taken over the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party. Under the hail of "neo-con" taunts many Democrats fled the Party.)
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