Birth certificate Obama provided "meets all of the requirements ... for proving U.S. citizenship."
Contrary to Dobbs' repeated assertions that the birth certificate Obama released is not the "real deal," FactCheck.org wrote: "FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate [provided by Obama]. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. ... The certificate has all the elements the State Department requires for proving citizenship to obtain a U.S. passport: 'your full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth, sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other certification of the official custodian of such records.' " [FactCheck.org; 11/1/08]
Hawaii officials reject Dobbs' distinction between validity of "long" and "short" form birth certificates.
PolitiFact.com reported that Hawaii officials say that the document provided by Obama "is considered a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii" and that "[c]alling it by other names" is, in PolitiFact's words, "just semantics":
When we spoke to a spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health, she said too much was being made of the difference between the so-called "long" and "short" forms.
"They're just words," said spokeswoman Janice Okubo. "That (what was posted on the Internet) is considered a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii."
"There's only one form of birth certificate," she said, and it's been the same since the 1980s. Birth certificates evolve over the decades, she said, and there are no doubt differences between the way birth certificates looked when Obama was born and now.
"When you request a birth certificate, the one you get looks exactly like the one posted on his site," she said. "That's the birth certificate."
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The Health Department says the "Certification of Live Birth" is Hawaii's version of a birth certificate. Calling it by other names -- Certificate of Live Birth, Certification of Live Birth -- is just semantics. [PolitiFact.com; 7/28/09]
Ann Coulter says Dobbs is wrong:
[begin video clip]
RIVERA: Dobbs has a new distinction as the principal prime-time advocate of the issue of whether or not Barack Obama is really a citizen of the United States. Ann Coulter, is this an issue?
COULTER: No, it isn't. And, by the way, Lou Dobbs is not a crank. He was absolutely right on illegal immigration. You were wrong, Geraldo.
RIVERA: He's a dope.
COULTER: However, he is wrong on this issue.
RIVERA: OK. Good.
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