Source: Huffington Post
A battle is brewing in Hawaii over a push from the “birther” movement aiming to obtain proof that President Obama was born in the Aloha State.
Governor Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat, spoke about the widely discredited eligibility matter in an interview with CNN on Monday. The network reports:
Abercrombie, in his first on-camera comments on the matter, said that he has his attorney general and the state’s Health Department director looking at what legal avenues can they follow to release more documentation of Obama’s birth in 1961.”As quick as we can we will,” Abercrombie said. “This is a transparent state in terms of our communication with one another. This is the Aloha State. We care for each other, we look out for each other, we’re family.”
(Conspiracy theories about the citizenship of Barack Obama reject the legitimacy of the United States citizenship of President Barack Obama or his eligibility to be President of the United States. Some of these conspiracy theories allege that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, or that his birth certificate is a forgery. Others allege that Obama is a citizen ofIndonesia, or that because he had dual citizenship at birth (British and American), he is not a natural born citizen of the United States, which is a requirement to be President of the United States under Article Two of the United States Constitution. These conspiracy theories received attention in mid-2008 following Obama’s victory in the Democratic primaries, in late 2008–early 2009 with regard to the Electoral College vote and Obama’s inauguration, and later during various court proceedings. ) (wikipedia)
