Sidekicks: Chuck Norris says, "I agree with CNN's Lou Dobbs ... make public your original birth certificate"
August 04, 2009 7:33 am ET by Media Matters staff
From Chuck Norris' August 4 Creators Syndicate column:
Believe it or not, I'm not writing you to challenge whether or not you were born in America, though I see nothing wrong with the American public's voicing that constitutionally based grievance with someone in your esteemed position. As one blogger wrote, after all, "We aren't talking about a 12-year-old qualifying to play Little League here." Or as Ronald Reagan once said, "Trust but verify."
I must admit that I find it a bit of a groundless stretch not to believe in the birth announcements in two major Hawaiian newspapers in August 1961, in which Hawaii's Health Department would have been required to post information it received directly from hospitals: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Hwy., son, Aug. 4." Nevertheless, that proof doesn't answer why you refuse to reveal your original birth certificate and end the growing tides of controversy.
I'm writing you because this is no longer a matter merely about proving you meet a presidential prerequisite in the Constitution. Refusing to post your original birth certificate is an unwise political and leadership decision that is enabling the "birther" controversy. The nation you are called to lead is experiencing a growing swell of conspirators who are convinced that you are covering up something. So why not just prove them wrong and shut them up?
I agree with CNN's Lou Dobbs, who was chastised by his own media outlet for demanding the release of your original birth certificate. Why was that such a bad request? We certainly know why Jon Klein, the president of CNN/U.S., thought it was a bad idea. He previously declared that CNN researchers had determined that your 1961 birth certificate no longer exists. But Hawaii officials confirmed again last week that they indeed have your original birth certificate on file.
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Mr. President, as more and more people realize that you are refusing to release your original birth certificate, further questions will fuel the fires of debate or at least hinder the embers from ever being snuffed out. Questions such as, "Does it really contain the Hawaiian physician's name?" "Does it disclose something other than his birthplace that he wishes others not to see?"
Oh, Chuck, do you mean like when Bush and Cheney had everyone terrified that Saddam Hussein had nukes pointed at America...with his finger on the launch button? Do you mean we should have verified that startling news before invading Iraq rather than just blindly trusting the Bush adminostration?
Have you taken too many karate kicks to the head, Chuck? Barack Obama's "original" 1961 birth certificate, the one that was given to his mother right after his birth, has indeed been lost and, most likely, no longer exists. The orignal document that is kept by the State of Hawaii still remains on file with Hawaii's Department of Health...and it is from that original document that the information contained in the certified birth certificate that Obama has produced has been obtained. However, please advise under what provision of law can Barack Obama order that original state document released to the public? Hawaii state law provides that only copies, in the form that Obama's birth certificate has already been released, can be provided by the state. Should Barack Obama exercise his emergency executive powers as President of the United States of America to order the State of Hawaii to release a document which state law says it does not release? I thought conservatives like yourselves believed that states' rights were paramount...that federal powers should not intervene to supercede state law in matters reserved for the states. Please tell us...should Barack Obama order the State of Hawaii, in a strictly personal matter, to do something that state law says it does not do?
All I have to say: Happy Birthday, President Barack HUSSEIN Obama!
SR, these people don't understand anything but what their thought masters tell them. It's been stated in more than one place that if Obama had the Hawaiian deprtment of records carry his long-form birth cerificate in a hermetically-sealed capsule and and put it on display in the Capitol rotunda, they would just say that it's been phonied up and would he please produce his real birth certficate. That's why they all leaped and shouted for joy at the phony certificate allegedly from Kenya; it told them what they wwanted to hear. This isn't about Obama proving his birth status; it's about denying him his birth status...
MOre to the point does ANYONE here or there realize that the dociment you are describing is by no measn "official"? Try getting a passport with the piece of paper your parents wlaked hoime from the hospital with. YOU CAN'T. It's not an official document, it's little mroe than a souvenir. (My wife learned this when trying to get her passport.) Most people never see their "official" BC. Most get the CoLB, and only then if they're trying to get a passport or something.