Obama's Continue Birth Certificate Controversy

----by Diana West

Now, imagine the laurels that would come to the hospital librarian who brandished a maternity log with Stanley Ann Dunham's name inscribed in 1961 in the investigators' faces -- the follow-up high-fives on "Good Morning America," the round of applause on David Letterman's "Late Show," maybe even a thank-you note from Barack and Michelle for finally putting Arpaio's Cold Case Posse on ice.

Instead, the reply to the posse's request from Kapi'olani was: The hospital wasn't in the business of investigating birth certificates but was in the business of saving lives. (How unrehearsed.) "They all but threw us out," Zullo recalled.

It was a similar story at the Hawaii Department of Health, where two uniformed policemen were called in after the investigators showed their credentials and asked to speak to state registrar Alvin Onaka. (The cops looked quite irritated at having been called, noted Zullo.) "Mr. Onaka doesn't speak to the public," the investigators were told. Translation: Mr. Onaka was hiding in his office. Fortunately, Deputy Attorney General Jill Nagamine deigned to give the posse 15 minutes.

Were the two certified copies of the birth certificate that Obama's personal attorney is said to have brought back to Washington identical to the image posted at the White House website? Nagamine wouldn't answer the question, repeatedly invoking a Hawaiian statute that she said prevented her from talking about the copy of the White House birth certificate Zullo had with him.

He tried a different tack. Say, for instance, he had to release his driver's license, Zullo said. And that Nagamine scanned his license into a computer. Before the public could view it, however, she changed or added information. "Is that still my driver's license?" he asked Nagamine.

Hawaii's deputy attorney general replied: "But you still have a driver's license."

No, you don't. You have a forgery.

    So what do we have in Hawaii -- and in the White House?
 

Diana West is the author of "The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization," and blogs at dianawest.net. She can be contacted via dianawest@verizon.net. Follow her on Twitter @diana_west_.
 

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