First Abercrombie said he’d release Obama’s original birth certificate in order to finally and completely dispel the birth issue, and now he says he can’t:
A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Barack Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.
State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual’s birth documentation without the person’s consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday.
“There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document,” said Dela Cruz. “Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will continue to question the citizenship of our president.”…
If someone wanted to inflame the issue, one could not have gone about it any more effectively. Is Abercrombie a complete idiot? The relevant Hawaii authorities had announced back in October of 2008 that they couldn’t release the original to third parties who have no relevant interest in the document – so, when Abercrombie said that he would do just that he must have already known that he couldn’t. And yet he went right ahead and stated he would.
Now it is re-stated that it can’t be released – and conspiracy-theory websites are probably going bonkers on this; to them, this is rock-solid, absolute proof that Obama wasn’t born in Hawaii because hiding behind regulations, after promising to do something, smacks of cover-up. If this isn’t sheer stupidity on the part of Abercrombie then the only other explanation is rope-a-dope; hope that this absurd action gets, say, a House GOPer to demand an investigation or, even better, get a 2012 GOP prospect to make the demand…and then produce the document, thus making the entire GOP look stupid.
Don’t fall for this one, GOPers – if its Abercrombie being an idiot, then just let him flame out on it; if its rope-a-dope, then don’t get roped. Obama is President and there is no upside to our cause in asking questions about where he was born.
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