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Old story: but now we know he was really born in Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital: OR Do We????? 

Who is the real obstetrician Dr. Rodney T. West or Dr David A Sinclair.

 
January 26, 2009 According to new testimony from an Obama family friend President Obama was born in Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu,  who learned this from the doctor in charge of the hospital that delivered Obama.

When Barack Hussein Obama places his hand on the Bible today to take the oath of office as 44th president of the United States, Barbara Nelson of Kenmore will undoubtedly think back to the day he was born. It was Aug. 4, 1961, at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu.

Obstetrician Rodney T. West

“I may be the only person left who specifically remembers his birth. His parents are gone, his grandmother is gone, the obstetrician who delivered him is gone,” said Nelson, referring to Dr. Rodney T. West, who died in February at the age of 98. Here’s the story: Nelson was having dinner at the Outrigger Canoe Club on Waikiki Beach with Dr. West, the father of her college friend, Jo-Anne. Making conversation, Nelson turned to Dr. West and said: “‘So, tell me something interesting that happened this week,’” she recalls.
His response: “Well, today, Stanley had a baby. Now that’s something to write home about.”
The new mother was Stanley (later referred to by her middle name of Ann) Dunham, and the baby was Barack Hussein Obama.

“I penned the name on a napkin, and I did write home about it,” said Nelson, knowing that her father, Stanley A. Czurles, director of the Art Education Department at Buffalo State College, would be interested in the “Stanley” connection.

She also remembers Dr. West mentioning that the baby’s father was the first black student at the University of Hawaii and how taken he was by the baby’s name.
Source: The Buffalo News

Is this story just “too good to be true?” Perhaps.
Initial objections offered were that Dr. West had retired from delivering babies before 1961. This is questionable based on followup investigation (see below). The Buffalo News article stated that West had delivered Obama, but this was not what Nelson told the interviewer.  The second objection was that West was not at the Kapi’olani Hospital, based on an obituary available on the Internet. However it turns out, according to new information discovered by an Obama  contributor, that  ”[West] served as Chief of Staff at … Kapi’olani Maternity Hospital, 1953, and Medical Director, Straub Clinic, 1967-77.” The quote is from a cached web page of the Mamiya Heritage Medical Center. The Mamiya web site is under redesign, but copy has been saved here. So it is very plausible that West was at the Kapi’olani Maternity Hospital (as it was called then) in an executive capacity in 1961.

In 2008 West’s family gave a donation over $5,000 in the doctor’s memory to the Foundations of Hawaii Pacific Health, including the Kapi’olani Health Foundation.

We also know from that memorial article that West was a member of the Outrigger  Canoe Club mentioned in the newspaper story. The story, given the best information I have, remains very plausible.
Maybe it’s not too good to be true after all.

Followup. I received this response to an email query:

Our records show that Dr. Rodney T. West was Chief of Staff at Kapiolani Hospital in 1953.  He was certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology in 1958 and practiced at The Straub Clinic and Hospital until his retirement in December 1977.

Thank you for your interest.

The Queens Medical Center

Mamiya Medical Heritage Center

Donald Trump's "Were is the birth certificate"

Donald Trump at a news conference in New York last month. Trump, who may run for president, is continuing to ask questions about the president's origins. Donald Trump at a news conference in New York last month. Trump, who may run for president, is continuing to ask questions about the president's origins. (Lucas Jackson/REUTERS)

In his fundraising opener, Obama endorses 'a caring America' 

WSJ/NBC News poll: Donald Trump No. 2 among likely Republican candidates for president WSJ/NBC News poll: Donald Trump No. 2 among likely Republican candidates for president * 

Pawlenty gets Trumped in CNN interview Pawlenty gets Trumped in CNN interview By James Oliphant April 15, 2011, 6:12 a.m. The public revival of the so-called “birther” question among some Republicans plays to his political advantage, President Obama says. 

Obama told ABC News interviewer George Stephanopoulos that Donald Trump and others are doing themselves no favors in persisting on the issue of the president’s background. “I think that over the last two and a half years there's been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short-term for Republicans, but creates, I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He doesn't have horns,” 

Obama said in the ABC interview. “We may disagree with him on some issues and we may wish that you know, the unemployment rate was coming down faster and we want him to know his plan on gas prices. But we're not really worrying about conspiracy theories or-- or birth certificates. And so-- I-- I think it presents a problem for them.” For Obama, the birth-certificate sideshow has become a punch line.

Speaking at a fundraiser in Chicago Thursday evening, the president said. “I grew up here in Chicago. I wasn’t born here.” The crowd laughed. “Just want to be clear,” he said. “I was born in Hawaii. But I became a man here in Chicago.” Meanwhile, Trump is working the question of his GOP presidential aspirations to his full ratings-seeking advantage. He told Bill Carter of the New York Times Thursday that he may make some sort of announcement regarding his political future on his NBC show “Celebrity Apprentice.” (And, he just got us to mention the show. He’s a genius.) 

But Trump has to be careful about federal rules that require networks to provide equal time for presidential candidates—so it’s not as if Trump can declare that he’s running for president at the end of the show, even though NBC no doubt would love for him to. “I believe I can say I will be announcing my decision in a few days,” Trump told the New York Times. “But before I did that I would get the approval of NBC.” The network said that as long as Trump does not become a formal candidate for president, equal time rules do not kick it.

‘Birthers’ get a new backer

Georgia hopped on the birther bandwagon — again — by introducing legislation last week that requires presidential and vice presidential candidates to produce certified copies of their birth certificates.

Rep. Mark Hatfield, R-Waycross, who introduced a similar bill in 2010, is the primary sponsor of House Bill 401, according to the Associated Press, and denies he is a “birther” — a person who believes President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. But he said that he hasn’t “personally seen any real proof” of Obama’s legitimacy to serve as president.

“Most people feel it’s an issue to a significant enough portion of our population that it needs to be addressed by the state,” Hatfield said. “It is, in a sense, a response … to the sitting president and his inability or unwillingness to release his original birth certificate.”

Since the “birther” questions started in 2008, this particular conspiracy theory has been discussed, disputed, delivered with stern expressions by talking heads and eventually debunked so many times that another wingnut theory sprung up about where it all began: with Hillary Clinton. Apparently Clinton was so desperate to win the primary, her only recourse was to cast doubt on Obama’s citizenship. Who comes up with this stuff?

During the presidential campaign, Obama released a “certificate of live birth,” an official state document confirming that he was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu. Over the last few years, Hawaiian officials have been deluged with requests from people who want a copy of the document — the same document, except from the state. Citing the state’s privacy laws, officials could not comply. So Hawaii lawmakers have proposed a bill revising the law that would make a copy of the document available to anyone who asks — for $100. “All these people are still doubting it because they don’t want the birth certificate from Obama,” Rep. Rida Cabanilla told AP. “They want it from our state office.”

Hatfield said his bill wasn’t specifically for an Obama candidacy and would apply to anyone seeking the office — but he specified that documentation as provided by the state of Hawaii attesting to Obama’s birth there “would not suffice,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. What will? According to the language of the bill: “Evidence of eligibility… (including) a certified exact copy of the candidate’s first original long-form birth certificate that includes the candidate’s name, time and place of birth; the name of the specific hospital or other location at which the candidate was born; the attending physician at the candidate’s birth; the names of the candidate’s birth parents and their respective birthplaces and places of residence; and signatures of the witness or witnesses in attendance at the candidate’s birth.”

According to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control’s Vital Records division, a computer-generated long-form in our state includes much of that information but does not provide (or require) witness signatures, the time of birth, a specific hospital (only the city) or the name of the attending physician. Thus, if Georgia’s legislation passes,no South Carolina natives need apply to run on the Georgia ballot for president or vice president.

“It could be that this individual really does doubt that Barack Obama was born in this country, despite evidence to the contrary,” said University of Georgia political scientist Charles Bullock. “There are also people who think we have never sent astronauts to the moon.”

Originally, 92 Republicans and one Democrat signed on as co-sponsors of the legislation. As of Monday, 28 had removed their names from the measure.

Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Connecticut, Indiana, Nebraska, Tennessee and Maine have bills pending. A proposal failed earlier this year in Montana.

Let’s hope it makes a resounding thud in Georgia, too. The South already has enough unfair image problems.

Obama Should Produce Original Birth Certificate

David Hahn, "Publisher, StatePaper.com "

Publisher: Obama Should Produce Original Birth Certificate

At StatePaper.com, we know by making this statement we will be instantly tagged as "racist," "birther," or other pejorative terms by those who defend the President of the United States. We often defend the President and the job he is doing and are regularly lambasted for being "too liberal" or an "Obama lover" by some of our most prolific critics.

But, here is the issue:

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of our country. Article II of the Constitution requires the President to be a natural born citizen. Without reciting them here, there appears to be some serious questions raised about whether President Obama was born in the United States or Kenya. We have not checked sources, but there are reports that some witnessed his birth in Kenya.

The President's campaign staff and then his administration have released and placed on the internet a "Certificate of Live Birth." We do not dispute the validity or correctness of that document as others have tried to do, suggesting the use of computers to alter seals and names. By releasing this document the President agrees that the claims about his status as a natural born citizen is an open, important, public issue.

But, this "Certificate of Live Birth" is simply not the best evidence that the President and his administration could offer to lay to rest any doubt about his status as a natural born citizen.

Barack Obama is a lawyer and a graduate of Harvard Law School. All law students study the body of law we call "Evidence." One of the core tenets of American law is the "best evidence rule" which requires the production of original, or certified copies, of original document to prove a fact. Abstracts and summaries are not original documents.

The President has offered an abstract (Certificate) of his birth, but not an original birth certificate which would be the best evidence of his birth. We need the best evidence so that it can do what the best evidence is meant to do; dispel the doubts about a fact. We need to see the Birth Certificate. That's the one that is often handwritten and signed by the doctor.

Lawyers and legal thinkers will, obviously, argue the finer points of the "Best Evidence Rule" and its applicability to this matter. But, that misses the point. The notion of "Best Evidence" is solidly-grounded in law. This is an important public matter and it seems now that the President has started down the path of offering some evidence (Certificate of Live Birth), he should offer the "best evidence" (Original Birth Certificate) which is the source document for his birth. The document behind the document which has been released. This is what is needed now in the court of public knowledge.

The fact in question here is the constitutional qualification of the President of the United States to hold office. With a simple nod, the President could offer the American people the best evidence, the source document(s), as he learned about at Harvard, and dispel those who question his birth as a natural born citizen. His failure to provide this best evidence, when it could be so easily done, raises only more questions, which fuels an ugly public debate.

And now we've got a "Liberal" Nebraska newspaper advising Barry to cough up his birth certificate.

If he can. Anybody ready yet to watch our TelePrompTer-in-Chief taking the Fifth?

Oops! Obama mama passport 'destroyed'

Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the State Department has released passport records of Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama's mother – but records for the years surrounding Obama's 1961 birth are missing.


The State Department claims a 1980s General Services Administration directive resulted in the destruction of many passport applications and other "nonvital" passport records, including Dunham's 1965 passport application and any other passports she may have applied for or held prior to 1965.


Destroyed, then, would also be any records shedding light on whether Dunham did or did not travel out of the country around the time of Barack Obama's birth.


The claim made in the Freedom of Information response letter that many passport records were destroyed during the 1980s comes despite a statement on the State Department website that Passport Services maintains U.S. passport records for passports issued from 1925 to the present.


The records released, however, contain interesting tidbits of new information about Obama's mother, including the odd listing of two different dates and locations for her marriage to Obama's Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.


In the released documents Dunham listed both March 15, 1965, in Molokai, Hawaii, and March 5, 1964, in Maui, Hawaii, as the dates and places of her marriage.


Dunham later divorced Lolo Soetoro in Hawaii. The divorce decree took effect Nov. 5, 1980, but the divorce papers do not list the date of the marriage.


No marriage certificate between Dunham and Soetoro has yet publicly surfaced, but a released application to amend Dunham's 1965 passport to her married name Stanley Ann Soetoro includes a checked box indicating a passport officer had seen the marriage certificate.


The released records also document that on Aug. 13, 1968, Dunham applied to have her 1965-issued passport renewed for two years, until July 18, 1970.


Under 22 USC Sec. 217a, from 1959 through 1968, passports were initially issued for three years, but they could be renewed for an additional two years.


Obama, by any other name


Also revealed by the released records is a heretofore unknown, alternative name for Barack Obama.


In the 1968 application to renew her 1965 passport, Dunham listed as her son Barack Hussein Obama, including in parenthesis below the name, "Soebarkah," in what appears to be a variation of an Indonesian surname not previously associated in the public record with the president.


For some unexplained reason, the designation of "Barack Hussein 
Obama (Soebarkah)" is crossed off the 1968 application by five handwritten, diagonal hash marks.
Read more: Oops! Obama mama passport 'destroyed' http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=186677#ixzz1GAdwE0vA

Boy oh Boy so many Birther so little time

 BIRTHER CASE LIST (PDF)

http://tesibria.typepad.com/whats_your_evidence/BIRTHER%20CASE%20LIST.pdf

White House Passport Fraud

by WhiteHouseFraud

The White House issued a video showing the Presidents passport in response to a question . It can be seen at the link at the top of this page ( starts about 1:20 in ). Watch the video then read my analysis. What will be shown in the analysis is that they used 2 separate passports in the video ( but trying to pass it off as one ).

They pulled a little bait and switch with the passport. I have provided screenshots of the video.The first view of the passport is of a closeup of the passport page with his picture on it. They then cut to a different shot of them opening a passport to show the stamps on it.They never showed the cover of the passport from which they showed his picture ( which is significant since it would show if it was a diplomatic one or not ). Now about the screenshots.

This is the page with his picture. They blur out the date of issue and the date of expiration. Why do that ? It is obvious his presidential passport was issued shortly after his taking office. There is no need to redact that info. Even if for some reason there was, can there be a reason why the year is redacted ? I think it is pretty well known that he became president in 2009.

ANALYSIS OF THE OBAMA PASSPORT

Date of Issue

Throughout the video of the closeup of the photopage of the passport,both the Date of Issue and the Date of Expiration are blurred out. However, in a few frames, the blurring drops a bit and we are able to see one line of the Date of Issue. It is from this line that I can determine the date of issue to being the month of March or May ( Let us take the earlier of the two, March, because any of the subsequent analysis that would apply to March would certainly apply for May ) and the day of 10, 12,13,18, or 19. The year is not revealed.

Below, you can see the video frame where they revealed a line of the Date of Issue:

Now, how did I determine the day and month ? I found an exemplar of a passport. It can be seen below :

Notice under Date of birth, we have 24 Mar:. I will use that as the comparison field. Although the header is Date of birth, the only section we are interested in is the Date of. The spacing for that is exactly the same for the Date of Issue.

The date format is DD-MMM-YYYY, where the month is the first 3 letters of the month. All we are concerned about is the first letter. That leaves us with the letters J,F,M,A,S,O,N,D.

Now let us look at a close up of the comparison field :

The only letter that makes those two points ( under the red dots ) and line up under the o and the f , is the letter M. Therefore, the month of issue can only be March or May. Similarly with the date, the first number can only be 0, 1, 2, or 3. Since 0, 2, and 3 all have rounded tops and the number in the image doesn’t, it is obvious it is a 1. The second number has a rounded top. That corresponds to a 0, 2, 3, 8, or 9 ( though the angle of the curve seems a little big for a 9 ) Therefore, the Date of Issue is most probably March 10, 12, 13, or 18.

VISA

When they show the view of the stamp page, you get a glimpse of the top of a visa that was issued to him. It is a SCHENGEN visa. ( It has the words Etats Schengen across the top ) That is a visa that can be used in all the countries that are Schengen members. All of the European countries that he visited are members ( with the exception of the United Kingdom ).Thus, he only needed one visa for all of those countries.. Below is an actual Schengen visa. Notice right under the Etats Schengen is the Date Valid From in the format DD-MM-YY. (dashes included ):

Here is the screenshot of the Obama visa:

Now some enhanced close-ups of the Date Valid From:

The day looks like the 4th, or the 24th ( , the base of the number is a little wide to be a 1 ), followed by a dash. The important field to look at though is the month. The first number of the field is definitely a 0. The second digit is definitely a 1. This is proven as follows. The only month numbers we need to be concerned with are 1, 2,and 3, since he has an entry stamp for the United Kingdom in March . Now the pixel length of the base of the number 3 is the same as that of 0. If the second number in the month field were 3 ( indicating that it was issued in the same month the passport was issued ), its base length will be equal to that of 0.

Here is an enlargement of the numbers with the base length of each number underlined in red:

Obviously, the base length of the second number is much shorter than the 0, Therefore, the number cannot be 3 or even 2 ( since the base length of 2 is the same size as 3 ). The base length confirms what is obvious on a visual inspection- that number is a 1. Since the Date Valid From cannot be earlier than the Date of Issue, the date of issue was sometime in January.

Questions

How can a visa that was issued in January be affixed to a passport that wasn’t even issued until the following March ?

The answer is it can’t. It is impossible. In order to get a visa, you have to surrender the passport to the embassy and they affix the visa to your passport and enter your passport number on the visa. Heads of State are probably handled differently.Most likely someone from the State Department brings the passport over ( and it is not just his, but his families and staff ) and the visa is issued and affixed in their presence – WITH THAT DAY OF ISSUE WRITTEN ON THE VISA. So the diplomatic passport with the attached visa ( with visa issue date of January ) had to have been issued in January, not March.

How was the visa applied for and issued in January ?

They needed a passport number in order to issue the visa (passport number on the visa has to match the passport to which it is attached) and that wasn’t available until March, Line 14 of the Schengen visa application requests the passport number. The link to the form can be seen at the top of this page.

Also, on the full Schengen visa you see right next to the Date of Issue ( under the place of issue ) a space for the passport number. Obviously, the passport number on the visa has to match the passport number of the passport to which it is attached.

When a new passport is issued ( and his secretary filed for a new passport, not a renewal ), a new passport number is assigned. Therefore, they couldn’t just use the passport number from his Senate passport.See (Step 1 Part A ) at Passport Info link at top of this page.

Why was the passport issued in March ?

His personal secretary said one of the first jobs she had was to fill out his passport application. That would have been one of the top priorities since he had a scheduled trip to Canada on Feb 19 (This was his first trip as Head of State. He would have needed his “Presidential” passport for diplomatic reasons. He certainly could not have traveled in February on a passport that wasn’t issued until March. He had to have traveled on one that was issued in January or early February ). It took 7 to 8 weeks to get it issued. Maybe they waited a few weeks before filling out the form. That would bring it down to 4 to 6 weeks. That is the normal time anybody waits. According to the State Department, you can get one issued in under 2 weeks if an appointment is made at the local regional office (See Processing link at top of page ). There are even private companies that can get one issued in less than 10 days ( 1 day in an emergency ) (see Passport Services link at top of this page ). For diplomatic passports, the State Department even has a separate office to handle those requests. Since there is less volume to process, requests through this office are handled quicker. (see State Department link at top of this page) I am sure a request for a passport for thePresident would go to the top of the list and be handled in a matter of days.So why was this one issued in the middle March ? Especially since his trip to Europe was at the end of March. The Schengen visa was issued on or before January 24. The earliest they could have applied wasJanuary 21. So a foreign embassy took at the most 3 days to approve the visa, but our ownState Department takes close to 2 months to issue a passport for the President ? I find that hard to believe.

Conclusion

Something does not seem right about the whole scenario.

1 ) A presidential passport that takes 2 months to be issued

2 ) A visa that was approved for a passport 2 months prior to that passport being issued.

3 ) The visa is affixed to a diplomatic passport.That visa must have the same number of that passport to which it is affixed written on the visa ( as shown in the visa photo above ). If the passport issued in March was the passport the visa was attached to, it would be impossible.The visa was issued in January. The passport number for the March issued passport wasn’t available until 2 months later.

The only logical conclusion to this is that the passport to which the Schengen visa is attached is a valid diplomatic passport issued to the President before the 24th of January ( which is what you would expect – the passport being applied for and received within a few days of taking office.) That is the only way you could have that valid visa. It had to have been attached to a passport that was issued before the visa was issued. The passport used for the closeup is a different passportissued in March ( year unknown ). Therefore, 2 passports were used in the video – thus explaining the separate video shots ( needed if using 2 passports ) instead of one long continuous shot. The question that remains is WHY ? What is on the second passport that he doesn’t want to be seen that necessitated using a different passport for the close up ?

Even if unavailability of a passport number needed for the visa could be explained away, whatCAN’T be explained away is the date of issue of the passport used in the closeup.THERE IS NO WAY ON THIS EARTH THAT IT WOULD TAKE CLOSE TO 2 MONTHS TO GET A PASSPORT ISSUED FOR THE PRESIDENT. ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE IS A SEPARATE OFFICE IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT SET ASIDE FOR DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS AND A PRIVATE CITIZEN CAN GET AN EXPEDITED ONE ISSUED IN LESS THAN 10 DAYS. Thus the blurring of the date of issue. They would not be able to explain that away.

So we have the following situation :

1) A valid new diplomatic passport ( the one shown with the Schengen visa and the entry stamps ) issued sometime in January 2009 used to show the port of entry stamps. This is consistent with a passport being applied for the President in January and being issued within a few days. Just as one would expect.

2) A passport that was issued in March or May ( year unknown ) used to show the photo and info page. This is inconsistent with a passport being applied for the President in January. It would not take close to 2 months to have one issued to the President.

3) The White House editing the video to make it seem like they are showing one passport , when in fact they are showing two separate ones .

4) As was shown, there is no way that the passport that shows his photo and info (passport 1 ) can be the same passport as the one with the entry stamps (passport 2). Passport 1 was issued in March or May.Passport 2 had to have been issued in January in order to have the visa that was issued in January attached to it.

Note: A holder of a diplomatic passport can retain his personal passport. Actually he must . see State Department link above -under Applying For And Traveling With Your No-Fee Passport

One Other Comment:

They do some very selective editing in the video. When he opens the diplomatic passport and flips to the stamp entry page, it seems to speed up a bit. Actually, it only looks that way. The reason is that they cut out about 1 to 2 seconds of video between the flipping and the arrival on that page. Look at the following screen captures. They are taken at approximately 1/30th of a second apart :

Frame 1

Frame 2

Frame 3

Notice that it takes a huge leap from Frame 2 to Frame 3. Too much of a leap to be done in1/30th of a second. There were obviously frames cut out between Frame 2 and Frame 3. Why do that ? But that is not the interesting thing about the missing 1 to 2 seconds. If you recall when you viewed the video, they made it seem like someone was there with a camera and they taped him as he opened the passport and flipped through it. All the while , he was talking through it. Just someone standing with a camera as he went through “showing” the passport. However, it was much more complicated than that. We know from the screen captures, that frames were deleted. However, at the point where those frames were deleted, the audio is smooth and continuous. There is only one way that could be. They overlaid the audio track on the video track AFTER it was edited ( you never see him talking during the closeups of the passport ). Why go through all that subterfuge in displaying the passport unless there is something on his current diplomatic passport that they don’t want revealed ?

ONCE AGAIN, THE WHITE HOUSE HAS COMMITTED A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC