Dear Kooks: Obama is a Citizen

Malkin is part of the conspiracy:

I believe Trig was born to Sarah Palin. I believe Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. I believe fire can melt steel and that bin Laden’s jihadi crew — not Bush and Cheney — perpetrated mass murder on 9/11. What kind of kooky conspiracist does that make me?

Oh no ... the Trilateral Commission has gotten to her too? (That's sarcasm folks).

Seriously, Obama was indeed born in Hawaii and it's good to see the Responsible Right tamping down the flames of stupid conspiracy thinking.

UPDATE: Let me make the "Case Closed" argument clear to those who might not have delved into this. Here are the points to support the contention that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural born citizen:

1) The CoLB that Obama released is shown on Factcheck.org. It states the registration was made Aug 8th, 4 days after birth, and the birthplace was Honolulu. The CoLB, if it is legit, is just a printout of what is in the database and the database is what was entered Aug 8th, 1961 and reflective of the birth certificate. Unless the records were tampered with or changed since then, and there is no evidence of that, and unless the whole CoLB is forged, which some believe but I consider a false and weak claim at this point ... you are left with the conclusion that on August 8th 1961, his birth was recorded with state of Hawaii, and his birthplace was Honolulu.

2) At the same time the local Honolulu paper had a birth announcement, probably using the same information.

http://texasdarlin.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/close-up.jpg

3) Is the CoLB a forgery? Extremely unlikely:

http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_2.jpg

While it is conceivable to forge such a document, to do so in order to state a non-fact is chock full of many holes, and the document looks real and genuine. This picture does not look like the picture of a forgery, and it is quite interesting that the “It’s a forgery” argument applied on earlier documented CoLB images gets completely shattered by this photo, as it is clear that three was and is a real paper CoLB.

4) Now lets review the statement of the Hawaii officials:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/17866037/detail.html

“There have been numerous requests for Sen. Barack Hussein Obama’s official birth certificate. State law (Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §338-18) prohibits the release of a certified birth certificate to persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record,” DOH Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said. State officials said Saturday they have personally verified that the health department holds Obama’s original birth certificate. “Therefore, I as Director of Health for the State of Hawai‘i, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawai‘i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures,” Fukino said.

So we have state of Hawaii vouching for existence of Obama’s records. This makes the ‘CoLB is a forgery’ claim even more dubious to irrelevent.

5) People insist on seeing the ‘real’ birth certificate, but that would just be a form that repeats the CoLB. They have it on file. If you think that what they have on file in ANY WAY CONTRADICTS the CoLB that came from the Hawaii records database, then Mr Fukino would be ‘in’ on a scam perpetrated on all of us. I’d rate it a 99.999% probability that the birth certificate on file has the exact same information as the already-released CoLB and 0.0001% chance of scam ... how/why would the CoLB be forged if the state of Hawaii *does* have a real birth record for Obama?

Were Obama to find some dog-eared paper that is the original birth cert, 99% would again be happy and 1% would find reasons to consider it suspect, since they are trying to prove something - facts be damned - rather than be open-minded about the preponderance of evidence.

5. Claims that Obama was NOT born in Honolulu are burdened with the fantastic extrapolation that a pregnant and not well-off 17-year-old college freshman went overseas and travelled thousands of miles. And for what purpose? To have Barack Obama overseas only to then engage in a bizarre subterfuge of hiding that fact from that day forward. Apparently the complete and utter lack of evidence of any of this doesnt deter the conspiracy minded.

Putting all this together, we have enough evidence that, were this decided in a court of law, it would be clear that preponderance of the evidence falls on the side of Obama being born in Honolulu. And if and when the original birth certificate is produced, you could take it to ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’.

Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, August 4th, 1961.