To clear up some misunderstandings regarding Hawaii's records of birth I have listed the policies and web sites verifying those policies.
A. From Hawaii’s official Department of Health, Vital Records
webpage: "Amended certificates of birth may be prepared and filed with the Department of Health, as provided by law, for
1) a person born in Hawaii who already has a birth certificate filed with the Department of Health or
2)
a person born in a foreign country" (applies mainly to adopted children).
B. A parent may register an in-state birth in lieu of certification by a hospital of birth under
HRS 338-5.
C. Hawaiian law expressly provides for registration of out-of-state births under
HRS 338-17.8. A foreign birth presumably would have been recorded by the American consular of the country of birth, and presumably that would be reflected on the Hawaiian birth certificate.
D. Hawaiian law, however, expressly acknowledges that its system is subject to error. See, for example,
HRS 338-17.
E. Hawaiian law expressly provides for verification in lieu of certified copy of a birth certificate under
HRS 338-14.3.
F. Even the Hawaii Department of Home Lands does not accept a certified copy of a birth certificate as conclusive evidence for its homestead program. From its
web site: "In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original
Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the
Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original
Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated
Certification requires additional verification by DHHL."
MY FINDINGS AFTER EXTENSIVE SEARCHES AND INQUIRIES
The Certification of Live Birth posted on the internet by Obama's campaign is a valid, official document issued by the state of Hawaii. But, it is NOT an original Certificate of Live Birth of the type issued when a birth occurs in a Hawaiian hospital. The Certification of Live Birth submitted by Obama contains only that information that was provided by Obama's parents when they filled out the application for a COLB. That is why his COLB does not have the doctor's name and address or name of the hospital. It does state that the place of birth was Honolulu but that is what Obama Senior put on the application.
Also, the Health Department has NEVER stated that Obama is a natural born citizen, nor have they stated that Obama has a valid Certificate of Live Birth proving his citizenship. What they have stated, and this was misquoted by Obama's campaign and factcheck.org, is that they can verify that they have Obama's original birth certificate (note they do not call it a Certificate of Live Birth) sealed in their vault and that the Certification of Live Birth on Obama's campaign web site is a valid document issued by the state of Hawaii. These statements do not specify the origin of Obama's original sealed birth certificate (their terminology) or that the information on the COLB on the internet is correct, only that they issued it.
I do not buy into all the various theories of why Obama may not be a natural born citizen, but I have enthusiastically supported any effort to have Obama's eligibility reliably confirmed . The wide range of proposed scenarios of how Obama lost or never had the status of being a natural born citizen is to be expected when you consider Obama's blatant dishonesty everytime he has been asked to explain the myriad of controversial and suspect situations in his life. Add to that the facts of his early childhood family life and his own accounting of his preference for all things radical and anti-American, and you can understand how the theories have been so numerous and speculative in nature. This is not because those people proposing the theories are wild eyed and irrational conspiracy buffs, but a result of Obama's incessant secrecy and stubborn refusal to acknowledge the legitimate concerns about his eligiblity and intentions and his arrogance and defiance. Obama has spent over $500,000 to keep his original birth certificate secret. Why? That was the original question that has balooned into legal demands and lawsuits because of his insistence on ignoring that question. He could have easily spent $12.00 for a copy of his original birth certificate, and then chewed out those who have doubted him while waving the certificate in their faces in righteous defiance, and put an end to all of this. But that is not what he is doing. He is thumbing his nose at America and American's and the Constitution, and he's loving every minute of it.
See how much he hates Christian values and the Bible, and how much he despises religious people in this video. . .
Glenn Flowers