I was thinking today that "How long will the birther issue be a factor?" I thought it was put to rest after the first presidential election of Obama?
But as I was thinking about this today, I realized that unlike most of you I have lived in Hawaii and things are just a lot more laid back and less formal than the mainland in a variety of ways and always have been as long as I have been alive. Another factor is that Hawaii was a territory but not a state until 1960. Alaska became a state in 1959 and Hawaii the 50th state became a state in 1960. So, it had been a territory 2 years before Obama was born. So, I think people expect more formality in the birth certificate than Hawaii likely had on his in 1962 because Hawaii was still getting used to being one of the now 50 states.
For example, when I was in India, only the wealthiest people had birth certificates or anything like that at all. And because of this most people couldn't ever get passports because they didn't have a birth certificate. So, in most of the world people don't have birth certificates because most are born at home because "Who can afford to be born in a hospital unless there are state funded hospitals?" So, even though U.S. mainlanders (48 states) might get bent out of shape because the birth certificate doesn't look like they think it should, unless they want Hawaii to not be one of the 50 states they just sort of need to give up on this once and for all.
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Sure, but there is the logic of the situation--which anyone with a mind and a world map should know about.
Hawaii simply thousands of miles away from the nearest foreign country. Michigan, where Romney is supposed to have been born, is in Detroit only about a mile away from a foreign country (or less).
So isn't it a lot more likely that Romney was born in Canada than that Obama was born in Kenya (which actually had Yellow Fever at the time)?
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