I think all the hoopla around this is from 2 angles 1. Obama's father was not a USA citizen 2. Obama stonewalled on this and all his other personal docs for a long time then put a COLB online that they had to admit was a fake , finally the COLB everyone now sees was produced.
There is a big difference between Hi original Birth Certificates and teh Certification of Live Birth.Hawaii issued the COLB froms to anyone who filled it out and said they wre residents of HI, even when the baby was born elsewhere. This fact adds to the Birther flames
I firmly believe Obama WAS born in Hi but I also believe there is something on his original that back in 07-08 was thought could cause him problems.
However the Officials in Hi( and even some on his own team) have either lied or ' mispsoke" so many times they make the Birthers look normal.
Now this comes out. The former head of the Hi Dept of health said on MSNBC Monday that one could no longer get an long form ( Original, vault). As late as a month ago people were still getting their long forms so what happened?
This link is an " online newpaper" that is clearly conservative but the facts in the article are facts. A Gov says she has seen it, a Gov says it no longer exists, a Sec of State says it is in a book. Fukino says no one can get a long form, well except the people who are still getting them.
and this from the link suggests idiots are in charge and didn't read their own site after apparently stopping anyone from getting a long form
"Directly preceding the claim that the “Certification” is the document now issued, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands stated that “original birth certificates are preferred for their greater detail…” How can a person provide the “preferred” document when the department claimed that it no longer issued them? It has been proven that the Hawaii Department of Health did issue long-form Certificates of Live Birth until Dr. Fukino made her statement to MSNBC."
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Who cares if Obama's name on his original is Obama Soetoro ( if that is what it is) he had no choice in being adopted and he is still the same person.
As Chris Matthews said, release the original already.