"Why wonât President Obama give the nation that elected him a verifying look at the original âlong-formâ version of his birth certificate?
Itâs important to grasp the weird fact that this simple request â requiring nothing more than a nod of the presidential head â ranks as fightinâ words to American journalists....
The media have made their aversion to proof perversely clear: Whatever Obama does, their jarringly unified message is that he certainly should not direct the state of Hawaii to make public his original, long-form birth certificate....
Why wonât the president just give us a look at the original birth certificate and be done with it?
This is the mystery behind the unease âout there,â unease the mainstream media are now simultaneously picking up on even as they try to squelch it....
So why wonât this president â who promised the American people an unprecedented level of transparency â reveal his original long-form birth certificate?
Unheeded, the ânatural bornâ controversy will roil indefinitely, further stirred by Hawaiian law (Section 338-17.8, titled âCertificates for children born out of Stateâ), which makes state birth documentation available to children born out of state, even born out of the country.
None of this is healthy. Not the presidentâs suspicious secrecy. Not the mediaâs protective absence of curiosity.
It almost makes it seem as if someone might have something to hide."
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Itâs important to grasp the weird fact that this simple request â requiring nothing more than a nod of the presidential head â ranks as fightinâ words to American journalists....
The media have made their aversion to proof perversely clear: Whatever Obama does, their jarringly unified message is that he certainly should not direct the state of Hawaii to make public his original, long-form birth certificate....
Why wonât the president just give us a look at the original birth certificate and be done with it?
This is the mystery behind the unease âout there,â unease the mainstream media are now simultaneously picking up on even as they try to squelch it....
So why wonât this president â who promised the American people an unprecedented level of transparency â reveal his original long-form birth certificate?
Unheeded, the ânatural bornâ controversy will roil indefinitely, further stirred by Hawaiian law (Section 338-17.8, titled âCertificates for children born out of Stateâ), which makes state birth documentation available to children born out of state, even born out of the country.
None of this is healthy. Not the presidentâs suspicious secrecy. Not the mediaâs protective absence of curiosity.
It almost makes it seem as if someone might have something to hide."
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Read the rest at http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/08/07/opinion/doc4a7b9b194d7d5036897221.txt
