HAWAII'S GOVERNOR TAKES ON BIRTHERS (FOR THOSE WHO STILL BELIEVE OBAMA WAS NOT BORN IN THE U.S.)!
HONOLULU - Frustrated by what he sees as a never-ending campaign to undermine President Barack Obama, Hawaii's new governor says he plans to use his post to counter conspiracy theorists who continue to allege that the president was not born in the United States.
Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat who took office Dec. 6, has known Obama since the president's days growing up in Hawaii. He's also one of the few people who knew both Obama's father, also named Barack, and mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
That long-standing relationship is a major reason that Abercrombie, 72, takes umbrage with the persistent effort by Obama's most-ardent foes to assert that he was born in Kenya, which would constitutionally bar him from holding the office of president.
"Now that I'm governor, I'm going to do something about that," Abercrombie vowed.
Abercrombie, who for 19 years represented Hawaii's 1st District as one of the more-liberal members of Congress, acknowledged that he has not determined a specific remedy.
"What bothers me is that some people who should know better are trying to use this for political reasons," he said. Leaning forward from behind his desk in his capital office, he added: "Maybe I'm the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, 'I was here when that baby was born.'"
One of Abercrombie's aides said the governor is voicing the frustration of many Hawaiians who continue to be troubled by the rumors, which they see as emblematic of the view that Hawaiians are not Americans in the same way as those who live in the continental United States.
Abercrombie, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., came to Hawaii in 1959 to study sociology at the University of Hawaii. As a teaching assistant, he met and befriended Obama's father, a native of Kenya.
Obama's mother was born in Kansas and met and married his father while the two were college students in Hawaii. Obama was born at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961.
But in 2008, as Obama
ran for president, allegations appeared online among "birthers" claiming, without proof, that he was born
in Kenya.
That June, the Obama campaign released a Certificate of Live Birth - an official document from the Hawaii Health Department certifying the facts of a person's birth - as proof of
his birthplace.
Investigations by two prominent fact-checking organizations, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org, concluded that the certificate was authentic. FactCheck also turned up a 1961 birth announcement in a local newspaper, The Honolulu Advertiser, marking the
birth of a son to "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama of Kalanianaole Hwy."
Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat who took office Dec. 6, has known Obama since the president's days growing up in Hawaii. He's also one of the few people who knew both Obama's father, also named Barack, and mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.
That long-standing relationship is a major reason that Abercrombie, 72, takes umbrage with the persistent effort by Obama's most-ardent foes to assert that he was born in Kenya, which would constitutionally bar him from holding the office of president.
"Now that I'm governor, I'm going to do something about that," Abercrombie vowed.
Abercrombie, who for 19 years represented Hawaii's 1st District as one of the more-liberal members of Congress, acknowledged that he has not determined a specific remedy.
"What bothers me is that some people who should know better are trying to use this for political reasons," he said. Leaning forward from behind his desk in his capital office, he added: "Maybe I'm the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, 'I was here when that baby was born.'"
One of Abercrombie's aides said the governor is voicing the frustration of many Hawaiians who continue to be troubled by the rumors, which they see as emblematic of the view that Hawaiians are not Americans in the same way as those who live in the continental United States.
Abercrombie, a native of Buffalo, N.Y., came to Hawaii in 1959 to study sociology at the University of Hawaii. As a teaching assistant, he met and befriended Obama's father, a native of Kenya.
Obama's mother was born in Kansas and met and married his father while the two were college students in Hawaii. Obama was born at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961.
But in 2008, as Obama
ran for president, allegations appeared online among "birthers" claiming, without proof, that he was born
in Kenya.
That June, the Obama campaign released a Certificate of Live Birth - an official document from the Hawaii Health Department certifying the facts of a person's birth - as proof of
his birthplace.
Investigations by two prominent fact-checking organizations, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org, concluded that the certificate was authentic. FactCheck also turned up a 1961 birth announcement in a local newspaper, The Honolulu Advertiser, marking the
birth of a son to "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama of Kalanianaole Hwy."
Explain to me why there are so many nut cases in this country. Consider, President Obama was born in Hawaii. Hawaii has been a state for 50 years. The 27% of the people in South Carolina believe that Hawaii is not a state. Documentation has proven that the president was born there, his mother was white, his grand parents are white-they raised him. What is the issue? Can these people really be this uninformed/stupid? How is it Rush Limbaugh etc. clouds their minds so thoroughly that they refuse to listen to facts. How have these people survived this long? Check this out:
THE ADMISSION ACT
An Act to Provide for the Admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union
(Act of March 18, 1959, Pub L 86-3, 73 Stat 4)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to the provisions of this Act, and upon issuance of the proclamation required by section 7(c) of this Act, the State of Hawaii is hereby declared to be a State of the United States of America, is declared admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the other States in all respects whatever, and the constitution formed pursuant to the provisions of the Act of the Territorial Legislature of Hawaii entitled "An Act to provide for a constitutional convention, the adoption of a State constitution, and the forwarding of the same to the Congress of the United States, and appropriating money therefor", approved May 20, 1949 (Act 334, Session Laws of Hawaii, 1949), and adopted by a vote of the people of Hawaii in the election held on November 7, 1950, is hereby found to be republican in form and in conformity with the Constitution of the United States and the principles of the Declaration of Independence, and is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed.
SOURCE: Official State of Hawaii Website
So to TOTALLY destroy this B.S., YES, Obama can LEGALLY be President of the United States. This is ALL considered before a candidate runs when they have their Exploratory Committee to check their viability for running.
NOW PASS THIS ON TO THOSE NAYSAYERS WHO THINK OBAMA CAN'T BE PRESIDENT!!!