Dissembling continues…

So far,  the only media outlet to mention  the petition demanding Obama release his birth certificate is FOX News.    However,   Politico.com has put up a video link of Robert Gibbs answering a question from reporter  Les Konsolving about the birth certificate.

Note that Gibbs repeats the claim that the birth certificate was posted on the Internet during the campaign.    That simply is not true,  and I have trouble believing Gibbs doesn’t know the difference between a certificate of live birth,  commonly called a “short-form”,  and a birth certificate,  or  the “long-form” Kinsolving referred to.

In most states y0u could be born on Mars and be registered as a “live birth” versus a stillborn birth,  but that still doesn’t make that registration your birth certificate.   A long-retired physician friend tells me that the registration of live births was a useful necessity back in the days when most babies were born at home,  because unless there was a record of baptism at some religious institution,   there was no other means of establishing a child’s existence at birth.

Indeed,  being born in a hospital  is a relatively modern arrangement even in the U. S.,  and is still a rarity in much of the world,  which is why certificates of live birth still serve their purpose.   You need not be a conspiracy buff to  wonder why the Obama administration continues its dishonest campaign strategy,   much less its expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars to quash court cases,   if there is nothing to hide.    Perhaps Kinsolving will ask that question next.

It strikes me as off-kilter for Democrats to quickly claim John McCain wasn’t a natural born citizen because he wasn’t born in the U. S.,  yet dismiss all calls for Obama to release the same item McCain did.