You are either lying or had the most stupid bureaucrat in America. My daughter and I both have birth certificates that were original. Mine, which was hand written has all kinds of info on it. My daughters doesn’t even have her time of birth. These certificates were 24 years apart and in different states. Now, both of us have ordered and received the Certificate of Live Birth that we have needed for official stuff like our passports, school, etc. I keep the originals in a safe deposit box. I cannot ever get a copy of the original as they have all been destroyed and the pertinent info computerized. ( Do we really need to record my mothers “profession” as a homemaker?) When you order birth certificates today, You get a certificate of live birth. I know this not only from my personal experience, but it is my job to help my clients obtain theirs for official govt. business.
I was not, and none of my passport carrying friends have EVER been asked for a “birth picture”. Also, we never had “official birth pictures” taken. This is just plain silliness.

Lastly, If you are a college professor, you are painfully ignorant of your country and its citizens. I guess you only took one history class that missed a few bits. The Dominican Republic was once briefly occupied by the US, but was never a territory or other “holding” of the US. Puerto Rico, however is. Puerto Ricans, as were Hawaiians for over 100 years have been and are full legal citizens. In case you don’t remember even the historical movies about Pearl Harbor, We considered the island US soil. It’s citizens were US citizens.

BTW, My Puerto Rican born father in law was stationed in Hawaii as he served as a Lt. Col. in the US Air Force. You gonna tell him he’s not a real citizen too?

The first and most problematic are the ones like Dobbs and the Republicans who do know better and are using the same tactics they used to go to wars, pass the Patriot Act, rile the masses into being afraid of death panels instead of having a fair discussion on health care. They KNOW they truth and distort and LIE to get what they want. I think that they are guilty of treason.

The other birthers are people who are ignorant and believe the authority figures who are lying to them. It is hard to understand how people can be so ignorant, but they are. Some even think that they are doing “research” on the internet to prove they are right. Of course they don’t know HOW to do proper research and do find LOTS of sites claiming what they keep hearing. My neighbor is a lay birther. He REALLY doesn’t understand how the world works. He isn’t stupid either. He’s just woefully ignorant of almost everything that could help him come to a good judgment. I tried to explain the truth, and he was willing to listen to me respectfully. He is still not sure he can believe me because I am just his neighbor. In my argument to him I am battling Fox, CNN, Republican leadership, his friends and his preacher. It sure would be easier if it was only his friends and preacher.

They claim that obama’s health care plan will have a death panel to decide which senior citizens should live or die.

Pass the laughing gas.

Olbermann on June 13, 2009

In a twelve minute segment about the former vice presidential candidate, Olbermann called her, “Sanctimonious, holier than thou, exploitative, undignified, pedantic, childish, self-inflicting, insipid, backwards, embarrassing, over-reactive, overreaching” as well as a “delusional lunatic.”

Racist? You’ll have to explain how fighting against racism makes one racist. Anti-American? No, not everyone who you disagree with is anti-American. Having and expressing opposing views is probably what distinguishes America most from other nations. It’s a foundational value. If you are against that, that would make you anti-American by definition.

Hey goober, did you just get through listening to limbaugh?

I call bullshit.

No, you birthers need to stick to the facts and grow up.

You’re a bunch of lying crybabies.

The state of Hawaii issued a certificate of live borth which is on the internet. Although this is the so-called “short form” birth certificate, it is genuine and is regarded as a legal birth certificate

When I got my passport, I wrote my state for my birth certificate and they sent me the short form. The feds had no problem accepting it as genuine.

I have seen absolutely no evidence of your assertion that Obama paid a million to suppress his birth certificate. And he has provided a short form, which is legally acceptable. So he is not suppressing anything.

David, your birther garbage is the only thing in here that is uncalled for. You are a fool like Dobbs.

Going “OOOOOHH” and giggling is uncalled for.

The short form one is just as legal as the original. When I wrote for my birth certificate for my passport, they sent me the short form. The feds had no trouble accepting it as genuine.

They sent it back to me with my new passport. I’m looking at it right now. But I guess it doesn’t count and I was really born in Kenya, not Connecticut. LOL!

Obama WAS born in Hawaii. The state verified this with the short form certificate of live birth, which is just as legal as the original long form.

You birthers are all insane.

Ooooooh, very STRONGLY impllies…LOL!!!

They’re proving it in here.

Burden of proof is on you to show he was born in Kenya. Since you allege that a Kenyan ambassador claims he was, and that his grandmother said so, you go ahead and provide the sources for those claims.

This used to be the land of freedom but it’s turning like China!

I agree. I voted for Cynthia McKinney the Green candidate, because Obama (and most Dems) sold us out by voting for the Bush Bailout last October.

However, Obama IS a natural born American citizen and you are wrong to suggest otherwise.

If you don’t like Obama’s sellout economic policy, fine. But making up garbage about Obama will backfire on you.

Republicans have NO chance of beating Obama in 2012 if they persist with these “birther” LIES.

As a former journalist, I agree.

Unfortunately, FOX News has already gotten a court ruling that it is OK for them to knowingly LIE on their newcasts. Until this is overturned, we have no legal protection from their lies. The FCC refuses to regulate this.

The joke was about Palin’s OLDER daughter, who is an adult. Another Reich Wingnut LIE.

More Reich Wingnut LIES. Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate has been available online for some time, and the original has been verified as authentic.

Put down the meth pipe.