I agree with Rick Moran’s article, but must still ask one question – Why is Obama and his staff so reluctant to authorize the showing of the original birth certificate? It is Obama and not the Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS) idiots who are keeping this story alive. If the story could be killed by the simple showing of the birth certificate, why not do it?
I can think of two plausible reasons why Barack Obama might not want the public to see his hospital birth certificate.
Note: I don’t regard the possibility that Obama is not a United States citizen as particularly plausible, but your mileage may vary. If so, I don’t care to spend the time or resources in arguing with you. But good luck in proving your case to someone who matters!
Plausible reason #1: The name on his hospital birth certificate might not be “Barack Obama.” The newspaper announcement does not give his first name. His school records, in Indonesia and in the U.S. through high school, apparently all list his first name as “Barry.” The Certificate of Live Birth for “Barack Obama” proves nothing, either way — this particular COLB is a 21st-century reissue, and it is not uncommon in cases of adoption or other name changes for a state to reissue a COLB with the new name to simplify paperwork. (My own mother changed her first name as a teenager and had a new COLB issued.) Apparently Obama first started calling himself “Barack Obama, Jr.” in college, at a time when he himself says he was searching for authenticity; for all we know being Barack Obama, Jr. also might have made it easier for him to get into Harvard as the son of an alumnus. So why would Obama want to hide the original birth certificate? If it had come out during the campaign that Barack Obama, Jr. was really plain old Barry, it would have deflated his image, wouldn’t it?
Plausible reason #2: He enjoys making his opponents’ heads explode.
The two explanations are not mutually exclusive.
