serif">Hawaii elections clerk: Obama not born here
serif">Official who oversaw ballots in 2008 race says hospital birth certificate non-existent
Posted: June 10, 2010
3:39 am Eastern
By Joe
Kovacs
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
A college instructor who worked as a senior elections clerk for the city and county of Honolulu in 2008 is making the stunning claim Barack Obama was definitely not
born in Hawaii as the White House
maintains, and that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Obama does not even
exist in the Aloha State.
Tim
Adams, a
former senior elections clerk for Honolulu, now teaches English at Western Kentucky University. |
"There is no birth certificate," said Tim Adams, a graduate assistant who teaches English at
Western
Kentucky University
in Bowling Green, Ky. "It's like an open secret. There isn't one.
Everyone in the government there knows this."
Adams, who says he's
a Hillary Clinton supporter who ended up voting for John McCain when
Clinton lost the Democratic nomination to Obama, told WND, "I managed
the absentee-ballot office. It was my job to verify the voters'
identity."
He says during the 2008 campaign when the issue of Obama's constitutional eligibility first arose, the elections office was
inundated with requests to verify the birthplace of the U.S. senator
from Illinois.
"I
had direct access to the Social Security
database, the national crime computer, state driver's license
information, international passport
information, basically just about anything you can imagine to get
someone's identity," Adams explained. "I could look up what bank your home mortgage was in. I was
informed by my boss that we did not have a birth record [for Obama]."
At the time, there were conflicting reports that Obama had been
born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, as well as the
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children across town. So Adams
says his office checked with both facilities.
"They told us, 'We don't have a birth certificate for him,'" he
said. "They told my supervisor, either by phone or by e-mail, neither
one has a document that a doctor signed off on saying they were present
at this man's birth."
To date, no Hawaiian hospital has provided documented confirmation that Obama was born at its facility.
Copy of original long-form birth certificate of Susan
Nordyke, born in Honolulu the day after Obama's reported birthdate.
President Obama has never produced any document like this |
WND confirmed with Hawaiian officials that Adams was indeed working
in their election offices during the last presidential election.
Takahashi also confirmed Adams' time frame at the office from
spring until the month of August.
"We hire temporary workers, because we're seasonal," he said.
However, when WND asked Takahashi if the elections office could check
on birth records, he said, "We don't have access to that kind of
records. [There's] no access to birth records."
Adams responded, "They may say, 'We don't have access to that.'
The regular workers don't, the ones processing ballots; but the people
in administration do. I was the one overseeing the work of the people
doing the balloting."
Adams stressed, "In my professional opinion, [Obama] definitely
was not born in Hawaii. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that he
was not born in Hawaii because there is no legal record of him being
born there. If someone called and asked about it, I could not tell them
that person was born in the state."
The White
House has maintained a computer-generated Certification of Live Birth,
or COLB, is proof enough of Obama's Hawaiian birth, even though it has
no hospital or doctor's name on it. Such documents differ from a
Certificate
of Live Birth which includes those details. In response to a
direct question from WND, the
Hawaii
Department of Health
refused to authenticate either of the ..., posted online – neither the image
produced by the Obama campaign nor the images released by
FactCheck.org.
This short-form Certification of Live Birth image, which is
not the same as a long-form, hospital-generated Certificate of
Live Birth, was released by the Obama campaign June 2008. |
"Anyone can get that [COLB]," said Adams. "They are normally given if
you give birth at home or while traveling overseas. We have a lot of
Asian population [in Hawaii]. It's quite common for people to come back and get that."
But Adams says that doesn't necessarily mean he was actually born
in Hawaii. While he's not 100 percent sure of Obama's true birthplace,
he does think Kenya is a possibility, since his paternal grandmother
stated that before allegedly being silenced by other family members.
Gov.
Linda
Lingle, R-Hawaii |
Last month, as
WND
reported, Hawaii's Republican Gov. Linda Lingle reignited Obama's
origin on a New York radio show.
"It's been an odd situation," Lingle said. "This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it's one of those
issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that
are facing the country.
"So I had my health director, who is a physician by background,
go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a
news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born
at Kapi'olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that's just a fact and
yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue
and I think it's again a horrible distraction for the country by those
people who continue this."
Although the governor now claims she issued a news release stating Kapi'olani is Obama's birthplace,
the
actual
release said no such thing, making no reference to Kapi'olani nor
any other specific location of Obama's birth.
WND asked Adams why
the governor would make such assertions if a Hawaiian
hospital-generated birth certificate did not exist.
"Why would they say they've seen it and not produce it? I don't
know," he said. "If they said they've seen the document, then why not
produce the document? There's no need to put themselves out like that. I
can't even begin to think why they did that except for some kind of
political expediency. I'm too far down the totem pole [to know]."
While Adams, who noted he spent nearly 10 years in the islands
and has a bachelor's degree from
the University of Hawaii, says he's certain Obama was not born there, he
also does think the president is indeed a U.S. citizen, since his
mother, Stanley Ann Dunham was an American.
He says he merely would like to see the truth come out and have
the controversy over natural-born citizenship and presidential
eligibility resolved once and for all.
"It's come to the point where it's a monster, and it's time to
kill it," Adams said. "Solve the problem so that everyone can get back
to cooperating to improve the country. People have lost sight that we're
trying to make the country a better place."
He also feels some empathy for Obama, foreseeing what the president would potentially experience based on confirmation of his
claims.
"You don't have to like President Obama," he said, "but it is sad
that he's going to have to go through this public pillory by the time
this all comes out, that they did cover this up; and that's sad because
the first African-American man to become president shouldn't have this
blight on his term in office. That's what he'll get remembered for. It's
sad."
Adams says he's been telling other people his information for a
long time, and he's free to talk about it publicly since he no longer
has any confidentiality restrictions from his former employer, the
Honolulu government. People started to pay attention this week after he
was briefly interviewed by James Edwards, host of a weekly radio show on
WLRM Radio in Memphis, Tenn.
As
WND
reported last July, the Kapi'olani Medical Center trumpeted – then
later concealed – a letter allegedly written by President Obama in which
he ostensibly declares his birth at the facility.
A
photograph
taken by the Kapi'olani Medical Center for WND shows a letter allegedly
written by President Obama on embossed White House stationery in which
he declares the Honolulu hospital to be "the place of my birth," The
hospital, after publicizing the letter then refusing to confirm it even
existed, is now vouching for its authenticity, but not its content. The
White House has yet to verify any aspect of the letter. |
"As a beneficiary of the excellence of Kapi'olani Medical Center – the place of my birth – I am pleased to add my voice to your chorus of
supporters," Obama purportedly wrote.
This
excerpt from
the alleged Obama letter is perhaps the first formal declaration from
the president about his exact birthplace. The White House has still not
confirmed if the letter or its contents are authentic.
|
Press
Secretary
Robert Gibbs refused to confirm the authenticity of the alleged Jan. 24,
2009, letter from President Obama to his purported place of birth,
Kapi'olani Medical Center.
|
"Do all of your listeners and the listeners throughout this country
the service to which any journalist owes those listeners, and that is
the pursuit of the noble truth," Gibbs lectured Kinsolving. "And the
noble truth is that the president was born in Hawaii, a state of the
United States of America."
Meanwhile, Hawaii continues to get requests for release of Obama's hospital-generated birth certificate,
leading state lawmakers to take action.
They passed a bill in April allowing any Hawaii department to
ignore repeated inquiries for information from the same person, if the
department already has responded within a year. Gov. Lingle signed it
into law shortly after WND's report about her declaration on radio that
Obama was born at Kapi'olani..
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