When I read Bob Greene's wonderful "Late Edition," which I wrote about yesterday, I was reminded of how newspapers have often been called the first draft of history.
Events are recorded for posterity, and while they may be revised, corrected or expanded at some point, it was reading them in the newspaper that told us they had happened.
That's why two newspapers from 1961, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu Advertiser, pretty much blow away any possible legitimacy to any claims the "birthers" have about President Obama.
For all the claims that Obama's birth certificate isn't real, or that there have been forgeries (despite the Republican governor of Hawaii saying she has seen it and it is a legal birth certificate), the one thing the birthers can never explain is that within a day or two of Obama's birth, both Honolulu newspapers reported it in their vital statistics sections.
So ...
To believe that there is still some conspiracy, we now have to believe that the newspapers were in on this and that the conspiracy goes all the way back to the time of Obama's birth in 1961. I mentioned this to one "birther" I know, and he came up with a perfect knee-jerk response.
"The newspapers could have been photoshopped to include a fake announcement."
Maybe, but who could ever be sure there weren't other copies somewhere in files or on microfilm that would contradict them?
That's why I believe, as I have from the start, that what this is all about is people who lost the last election trying to find anything they can use to derail Obama's administration. I'm sure that once this fails, there will be people coming out of the woodwork claiming to have been his gay lover, or claiming to have been raped by him, or claiming to have been a member (along with Obama) in a subversive group.
The most disturbing part of it all is that a part of our electorate seems to have taken a very primitive attitude toward the facts in all this. What they're saying, in essence, is that they won't believe anything they haven't seen with their own eyes.
And sometimes, not even that.
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Mike, you apparently blew me off.
The accusation is that Obama's mother arranged through friends foir the birth ANNOUNCEMENT several days after his alleged birth.
There has been no evidence offered that lines up with a legal live-birth record.
Look, I was right where you are.
I hated this crap ... until I investigated it -- and it's not crap.
It's downright scary that Obama's people are working their collective asses off to keep people from ever seeing this purported legal live birth long-form certificate.
Maybe you don't know, but the short form is nothing more than a souvenir. It carries no legal status in Hawaii or any other state, for that matter.
yes, there are hundreds of thousands of people who can't prove they were born here -- but they did not run for or win the Presidency.
This is Constitutional crisis stuff.
Stop putting down what you clearly don't understand yet.
Consult a lawyer -- or better yet, call the County Registrar's office. they'll set you straight.
This will not go away until a real live-birth long form certificate with accurate and verifiable certification numbers is produced.
It would seem to be the easiest thing in the world to do.
But Obama hasn't and what's worse, he or his people have deliberately blocked any access to the document.
All those cases that have been thrown out of court have been ousted because of technicalities. Eventually one will thread this jagged needle and when it does, we will discover if this is still a republic or if it's become a totalitarian state.
JEFF IN POMONA
Not blowing you off, Jeff, but this makes no sense.
For birth announcements in the newspaper to be fake, that would have to mean the conspiracy has been in force since 1961.
If so, how would they know he would grow up to be capable of running for president, let alone being elected?
And if it was that big a deal, why not just make sure he was born in the U.S.
Republican Gov. Linda Lingle of Hawaii says she has seen the long form certificate and it is legal.
What would be the point of it all?
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