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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (735007)8/26/2013 4:31:17 PM
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>> Considering the birth announcements in the Hawaii newspapers, I don't have any doubts that he was born here.

This isn't a particular persuasive argument for me, and here's why:

I can imagine parents of a newborn thinking, "How great it would be if our kid could grow up with the benefits of American citizenship!" It is a small step from there to making it happen. A person in a hospital was essentially in charge of the entire process; when a birth certificate was produced and forwarded to the state health department, the state health department was responsible for publishing the announcement. The only tricky part is to get a doctor to sign the thing, and that guy's dead and probably wouldn't have admitted it anyway, if he had been paid to do it. I just think the process would have been far less formal than it is today.

So, the key would have been to get someone to create a bogus certificate of live birth, which would probably have been pretty easy to do in HI at the time - a few bucks slipped to the right person, and there you go.

I'm not saying he was or wasn't, only that there is a lot of mysterious inconsistency, and that the media has done NOTHING in the way of serious investigation.

I don't consider myself to be a "birther", but I've seen successful frauds that were far more difficult to get away with. It does seem to me there was at least the possibility of a single point of failure at the hospital.
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