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The Internet is full of people saying Obama was born in Kenya and is therefore ineligible to be president because the Constitution says you have to be a “natural born citizen.”

He was born in Hawaii. How do I know this? O’Reilly said so on TV. Specifically, he said they investigated and found that both Honolulu daily papers, the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, reported the birth of Obama, Junior a day or so after his birthday which was 8/4/61.

If the thought just occurred to you, “They could have faked that!” you need help.

Faked it when? In 1961? Because they knew that a conceived-out-of-wedlock, half Kenyan, half white newborn was going to grow up and win the presidency on the Democrat ticket 47 years later? And who faked it? Then 2-year-old Rahm Emmanuel?

Obama refuses to release his birth certificate

The reason for the persistent suspicion is Obama refuses to let anyone see his birth certificate (or his college or law school transcript). Why would he do such a thing?

O’Reilly said it’s solely because Obama and his people are hyper arrogant, like most presidential staffs.

I agree that he and his staff are hyper arrogant, but I do not believe that is the reason he refuses to release the birth certificate.

Bernard Goldberg, author of A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media, appeared on O’Reilly and said he thinks the reason Obama will not release the birth certificate is to keep the story going so the public will increasingly assume Republicans are kooks. In this scenario, Obama does not think refusing to release the birth certificate is hurting him and he figures questioning it is or will eventually hurt the Republicans, although it is not Republicans who are talking about it, only a fringe element.

I think Goldberg’s theory is interesting and may be partially correct. But here’s my theory.

My guess as to why Obama will not release the birth certificate

The conspiracy theorists assume he does not want to release his birth certificate because it would reveal that he was not born in the U.S. either because it’s a Kenyan birth certificate or because it is a fraudulent Honolulu birth certificate.

Again, get help. The State of Hawaii has possession of the birth certificate. Indeed, they initially got it when he was born in 1961, not when he announced his candidacy for president. It got stamped and recorded and all that 48 years ago. Two-year-old Rahm Emanuel did not sneak into the Honolulu Vital Statistics Bureau and substitute a Honolulu Birth Certificate for a Kenyan one. Honolulu would not have a birth certificate of a guy born in Kenya. Kenya would, if there was a birth certificate for Kenyan births at all. There is no evidence that Obama’s pregnant mother went to Kenya in 1961, or wanted to, or could have afforded to, or any reason why she would have wanted to do that. Obama’s father abandoned Obama and his mother weeks after he was born. The divorce was not final until two years after the marriage date, but Obama, Sr. went to Harvard to get a masters degree in September 1961.

Not the only information on a birth certificate

The country location of birth is not the only information on a birth certificate.

There have been many politicians who refused to release documents from their past. Clintons’ tax returns, Hillary’s college thesis (about Saul Alinsky it turned out when we finally got it), Kerry’s military records, etc., etc. The pattern is always the same. The politician in question claims innocuous reasons for refusing. But on the occasions when they finally do get out, we inevitably find embarrassing information.

There may be some variation in the information on a birth certificate in Honolulu compared to other U.S. counties. But here is the information my 1946 birth certificate (I have the actual original) includes:

hospital name
city and state
my full name including middle name
hospital number
the names of each of my biological parents
the date and time of my birth
my weight in pounds and ounces
doctor’s signature
nurse’s signature
secretary’s signature
record clerk signature
raised seal of the hospital

The birth certificate of my youngest son, who was born in 1987, has this information:

state
local registration district and certificate number
sex
number of babies born at the same time to the same mother
date and time of birth
hospital name and address
full name state of birth, and age of each biological parent
mother’s signature and date signed
name professional degree, license number, date signed, signature of delivering physician
certification by local registrar
place and date of certification
raised seal of the county health officer

Obama apparently does not want us to know one or more of those pieces of information about his birth certificate. OK, which pieces?

My best guesses are:

his full birth certificate name—perhaps because his first name was Barry and/or there was no Hussein middle name. Both Obama senior and junior went by the name Barry in the U.S. Obama, Jr. apparently started using Barack either to use affirmative action to get into Occidental and Columbia or to get street cred as a black guy in the South Side of Chicago when he moved there to start his political career. Hussein would also contribute to black street cred. Obama has admitted using the name Barry until adulthood when he started calling himself Barack. The implication has always been that Barack was his birth certificate name. Revelation that his birth certificate name was “Barry” would reveal that his claiming to be named Barack is simply false and apparently chosen with no basis whatsoever for affirmative action purposes and electoral politics advantage
maybe his last name on the birth certificate is Dunham—his mother’s maiden name
his father’s full name—perhaps because it was stated as Barry or there was no Hussein middle name or perhaps because no father was listed at all
his father’s citizenship

I think #1 is the most likely embarrassing fact on his birth certificate.

Why am I the only one suggesting this?

One reader wondered if Obama was listed as a Muslim on his birth certificate. I am not certain religion would not be on a birth certificate. And it would seem insignificant to me that a newborn’s parents said he was Muslim. But I can see how Obama might have worried about it hurting him.

John T. Reed

Regarding Obama’s birth certificate