From the
Honolulu Advertiser (Here's the crucial last paragraph):
"Bloggers and other skeptics also wonder why a large black rectangle
appears next to the words "CERTIFICATE NO."
Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said the blackened portion
is a department file number that was redacted to prevent hackers from
breaking into the Health Department's system." (emphasis added)
And this from
factcheck.org :
"We asked the Obama campaign about the date stamp and the blacked-out certificate number. The certificate is stamped June 2007, because that's when Hawaii officials produced it for the campaign, which requested that document and "all the records we could get our hands on" according to spokesperson Shauna Daly. The campaign didn't release its copy until 2008, after speculation began to appear on the Internet questioning Obama's citizenship.
The campaign then rushed to release the document, and the rush is responsible for the blacked-out certificate number. Says Shauna: "[We] couldn't get someone on the phone in Hawaii to tell us whether the number represented some secret information, and we erred on the side of blacking it out. Since then we've found out it's pretty irrelevant for the outside world." The document we looked at did have a certificate number; it is 151 1961 - 010641." (Emphasis added)
Which is it? Did the Hawaii Health Department redact the number, or a member of Obama's campaign? Is it sensitive, as according to the Advertiser, or irrelevant as according to Obama's campaign? If Hawaiian officials say it's important, why has factcheck published them? If it's not, why would the Dept. of Health say so to begin with? Does anyone else smell a rat?
It seems to me that we the people are not getting the whole story. Since truth does not fear investigation, why not have a definitive one once and for all?
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And now this, an unrelated comment from that article posted by "Kathleen":
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Come listen to this interview of Obama’s with Bob Schieffer of Face the Nation yesterday
Damn I knew I heard Obama say “Iran is developing nuclear weapons” during his appearance on Face the Nation on Sunday. He did not say they might, could, want to develop nuclear weapons Obama said “Iran is developing nuclear weapons” WTF
Why did Bob Schaeffer allow him to get away with repeating this unsubstantiated claim? We have heard Lieberman, McCain, Ledeen, Cheney, Bush, Rice, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Woolsey, Kristol, and other right wing radicals say this but this is the very first time I have heard Obama say this. What’s up with Obama repeating this?
Why is Obama ignoring the last NIE on Iran? Why is Obama ignoring what Iaea’s El Baradei has said about Iran? Why did Obama’s inaccurate and inflammatory claim about Iran pass by listeners and Bob Schieffer?
Listen to this interview with Obama? He said “Iran IS developing nuclear weapons” Obama needs to be called out on this.
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/ftn/main3460.shtm
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I mean it was enough to listen to Senator McCain during the debat repeat 4 times the endlessly repeated and inaccurately interpreted statement that Iranian President Ahmedinejad allegedly said that “Israel should be wiped off the map”. Which Professor Juan Cole has confirmed was a complete misrepresentation (lie) of what the Iranian President said Zionism “will vanish from the pages of time” JIM LEHRER DID NOT CALL MCCAIN OUT ON THIS JUST LET HIM KEEP REPEATING THIS.
But now we have Bob Schieffer allow Obama to lie and say “Iran is developing nuclear weapons”
Obama needs to be called out on this statement. He needs to be called out fast on this, let him know folks have taken note of this very inflammatory statement about Iran