#186901 - 05/16/10 03:15 PM
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flicka
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Hawaii to Birthers: Thanks for writing, now aloha!
The island state's Republican Gov. Linda Lingle signed into law on Wednesday a bill that would allow Hawaii to ignore repeated requests for President Obama's birth certificate.
Health Department officials say they still get 10 to 20 e-mails each week requesting verification that Obama was in fact born in Hawaii, which prompted the law.
Speculation about the President's birthplace has continued on the Internet for nearly two years, despite evidence that he was born in the nation's 50th state in 1961.
"I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health," Lingle said during a recent interview on WABC Radio with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.
"The President was, in fact, born at Kapi'olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii," she said. "And that's just a fact."
"Birthers" have come under fire repeatedly by the likes of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and CNN's Anderson Cooper, all of whom have dismissed the elaborate claims by conspiracy theorists who believe Obama is not a United States citizen and cannot legally be President.
Followers of the largely discredited conspiracy theory generally argue he was actually born in Kenya. A birth certificate that surfaced online showing he was born in Africa was later proven to be false. A "news story" about Obama spending millions to hide his birth certificate was also later shown to be fake.
"Birthers," however, have remained undeterred, demanding that Obama produce his original birth certificate.
The poster boy for the "birther movement," Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, still faces a court martial for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan unless Obama shows his birth certificate.
"I believe we need truth on this matter," Lakin said on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.
In 2008, Obama's campaign posted online an official Hawaiian certification of live birth, which is considered legally the same as a birth certificate (which was also photographed and examined by factcheck.org) has failed to quiet "birthers."
A planned march on Washington, D.C. by the movement's supporters was planned for later this month, but has since been postponed until August or September.
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#186909 - 05/16/10 09:31 PM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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Paulwa_dup1
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So you are saying Obie was born in Hawaii, Flicka? OK I'll accept that as proof. Why didn't ya say so before?:-)
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#186910 - 05/17/10 05:01 AM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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Rightwingnut99
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Have you seen the latest craziness yet? Do a search for Obama + Social Security Number
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#186911 - 05/17/10 05:02 AM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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ævory
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What is the law as written, Flicka? I think we should see it. Is it called harrassment now to make a request such as that? How many requesters does it take to put in a lightbulb?  And here I thought you liberals didn't like laws. I gotta qualify that so I don't get jumped..."all these laws". And when this all began, with the very first request, why didn't they just pull his ol birth certificate out of the state health records and be done with it? That would have been the simple thing to do. Now we got another damned law on the books.
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#186914 - 05/17/10 05:30 AM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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MerryA
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How about all the other folks born in Hawaii? Anderson made the point the other night - everyone born in Hawaii must also offer additional proof of citizenship? The Senators and Congressmen? Service men and women? LOL
Lt. Col. Terry Lakin - court martial him and send him to prison.
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#186917 - 05/17/10 09:24 AM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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lazer
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funny thing to me, even if he was born elswhere, he was brought back, went to school, served in government, and wasnt questioned till now
a technicality i dont care about now, but would be a issue if deemed true BEFORE running for prez
i feel you guys are racists
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#186920 - 05/17/10 10:23 AM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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ghoti
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Fer cripes sake, his birth records have been available on-line for a long time. Hawaii is just sick and tired of sending 20 or more copies of it out daily to every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a bug up their ass about it, and I don't blame them.
He's our legal president at least until January of 2013, and the right-wingers need to just learn to live with it.
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#186925 - 05/17/10 11:40 AM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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Paulwa_dup1
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and the left wingers and all other victims..maybe...
Paul
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#186927 - 05/17/10 01:44 PM
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YosemiteSam
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If the state raised the fee to $150 per copy they could generate some income.
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#186928 - 05/17/10 01:54 PM
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ghoti
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Problem is, that would screw over all the normal folks just trying to get a copy of their own birth records.
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#186929 - 05/17/10 03:03 PM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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lazer
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$10 online, $50 for a hard copy
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#186974 - 05/19/10 09:36 AM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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MerryA
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Have you seen the latest craziness yet? Do a search for Obama + Social Security Number
Some people have too much time on their hands. LOL
It is kinda sad to me that some people are so afraid of living in the real world that they go to such extremes to create an alternate "reality" 
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#187038 - 05/20/10 12:22 PM
Re: We don't do requests - bug off!
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Paulwa_dup1
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Obama will be an enigmatical blip in the linear history of time. Love to see what future generations (if there are any) will say about him!
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