Posted by
Roxanna M. on Monday, January 24, 2011 10:17:52 AM
"Little Barry, that's what we called him." So says Hawaii's new governor Neil Abercrombie (D), who claims that he "remembers seeing Obama as a child with his parents at social events."
According to legend, Obama, Jr., was born on August 4, 1961, in Hawaii. According to records from the University of Washington, Seattle, Ann Dunham enrolled there on August 19, 1961, and stayed for the winter and summer 1962 terms, returning to Hawaii in the summer of 1962.
According to records, Obama, Sr., left for Harvard in June 1962. Other than the time between August 4 and August 19, 1961, there doesn't appear to be any time when Obama, Sr., Ann, and "Little Barry" were actually in the same state at the same time (except for a visit in 1971), which makes Abercrombie pretty much the only person on the planet claiming to have seen the Obama nuclear family.
Fast forward to today. Bothered by people who claim that Obama was not born in Hawaii, Mr. Abercrombie promised to put an end to all this "birther" nonsense once and for all by releasing Obama's real birth certificate, as opposed to all those things that have popped up on the internet claiming to be his birth certificate.
Problem is, he has been unable to do so. Instead of being able to tell the press that he had located Obama's actual long-form birth certificate, all he has been able to do is say, "It was actually written, I am told, this is what our investigation is showing. It actually exists in the archives, written down."
Rather than leave the new governor with egg on his face, Hawaii's Attorney General came to his rescue by pointing out that privacy laws bar him (Abercrombie) from disclosing a person's birth certificate. So, now Abercrombie, after having roiled the waters of the Case of the Missing Birth Certificate, has simply said, "Never mind."