The Birthers are finally satisfied, President Obama has released his birth certificate and we can all move on with our lives... by Rachel Lynn Robinson
(libertarian)
Thursday, April 28, 2011
The Birthers are finally satisfied, President Obama has released his birth certificate and we can all move on with our lives, yeah right. Birthers are like 9-11 truthers, you can offer up conclusive evidence that we were attacked by outside sources on 9-11 and they will maintain the conspiracy is alive and well, jumping from one wild theory to another. Producing his birth certificate really doesn't change anything, it doesn't quiet down the skeptics, it won't even quiet down Trump who has based his campaign up until now on that very idea that Obama can't produce a legitimate birth certificate. The question now will be why did it take so long, did they fake this one?
In order to renew a drivers licence in the State of Missouri one has to have their birth certificate, the orginal from the state with the embosed seal. It cannot be the decorative version that the Hospital prints. In some cases people who have been driving for the last fifty years and who do not know where their original birth certificates are located are having to send off to the state they were born in. Now for the most part these individuals aren't nearly as famous as the President but in some cases getting the birth certificate for their drivers license has taken a long time, and effort. So when it takes the President a long time to present a birth certificate that the general public will accept why are we so quick to write it off?
Who started the birther rumors? Some will say that it was started by racist Conservatives. Nothing could be further from the truth. It wasn't started by a racist, or a conservative. The Birther rumors were started by the Hilary Clinton campaign during the primary election. Hoping to dissuade voters from voting for Obama. As the election ended with Obama's winning others picked up on the Clinton campaign question, and the longer it took Obama to prove that he was born the more conspiracy theories that were borne.
Now some people, who have known better, will keep up the charade just for the sheer purpose of diversion, if we are arguing over the ligitamacy of the birth certificate issue we aren't discussing policy issues. There are of course the people that are diehard Birthers, those who no matter the conclusive evidence they won't believe it. These are the people that should be lumped into the same category as 9-11 truthers and those who claim the youngest Palin child is not Sarah Palin's son, but her grandson. No matter the proof there will always be conspiracy theorist who choose to believe in wild theories rather than conclusive evidence. So while this should be one less issue to divide the nation, it is doubtful that it will end any time soon.
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The following is a Missouri certified birth certificate that someone willingly scanned an placed on the web for all to see. It is similar to the document that the Obama campaign released in 2008 (and in fact contains less information):
As far as I know, it meets the Missouri Dept of Revenue standards for identification. I can't make out the stamp or seal from the scan, but I'm pretty sure it exists on the original. Frankly - the document that the Obama campaign showed in 2008 would be valid for getting a Missouri driver license.
U.S. Birth Certificate - certified with an embossed, stamped or raised seal issued by a state or local government. (Hospital-issued birth certificates are not acceptable.)
It's got the embossed seal of the Hawaii Department of Health, so did that document meet the Missouri requirement for ID to get a driver license? That's the same form that people born in Hawaii have used to get driver licenses, US p***ports, enroll in Little League, prove employment eligibility, prove their age, get government clearances, etc.
