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Those who believe that President Obama was not born in Hawaii claim that if Obama released his “long form” birth certificate it will end all speculations. Commentators, however, advised that it would not be advantageous for him to do that for several reasons. First, it would raise questions as to why it took him so long to release the “long form”. Second, it would hand his political adversaries a victory as it would show that he caved in to their demand; and finally, it would open the door to demands for many other records from his life that have nothing to do with his birth.
None the less, Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, has addressed the issue. At the end of the May 27, 2009 press briefing, WorldNetDaily reporter Lester Kinsolving asked about Obama’s birth certificate. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs quickly replied, “It’s on the Internet”, to which Kinsolving responded “No, no, no — the long form listing his hospital and physician.” Gibbs responded as follows:
Lester, this question in many ways continues to astound me. The state of Hawaii provided a copy with the seal of the President’s birth. I know there are apparently at least 400,000 people (laughter) that continue to doubt the existence of and the certification by the state of Hawaii of the President’s birth there, but it’s on the Internet because we put it on the Internet for each of those 400,000 to download.
At a July 27, 2009 press briefing, radio talk show host Bill Press asked Gibbs if there was anything he could say to make the issue go away. Gibbs answered, “No. I mean, the God’s honest truth is no,” because “nothing will assuage” those who continue to pursue what he called “made-up, fictional nonsense” despite the evidence that Obama had already provided.
On August 6, 2009 Gibbs commented, “You couldn’t sell this script in Hollywood,” and summarized the contentions that he considered “totally crazy”:
A pregnant woman leaves her home to go overseas to have a child — who there’s not a passport for — so is in cahoots with someone…to smuggle that child, that previously doesn’t exist on a government roll somewhere back into the country and has the amazing foresight to place birth announcements in the Hawaii newspapers? All while this is transpiring in cahoots with those in the border, all so some kid named Barack Obama could run for President 46 and a half years later.