'Birthers' Right?

The new governor of Hawaii is obviously trying to help.

Neil Abercrombie says he wants to release more information about Barack Obama's birth to dispel the conspiracy theory that he was born somewhere else and is therefore not a legitimate president.

Then the veteran political reporter Chris Matthews, on left-leaning news channel MSNBC, weighs in: "I am not a birther," he says. "I am an enemy of the birthers."

But he asks: "Why doesn't the president just say, send me a copy right now? Why doesn't (Robert) Gibbs and (David) Axelrod (White House advisors) say, let's just get this crappy story dead? Why not do it?

If it exists, why not put it out?"

I have a question too - why should they?

Because, as Matthews admits, no amount of official paperwork is ever going to convince everyone that Obama was born in the USA.

So far birthers have dismissed the 'certificate of live birth' produced by Hawaii, the word of state's health director that she had seen and verified the original records and two birth notices in Honolulu newspapers from the time of Obama's birth in 1961.

Why will they believe that a full birth certificate is any less 'fake' than all of that?

The birthers movement includes people who believe in some enormous conspiracy of silence being conducted in Washington.

And this conspiracy, of course, began with the election of Barack Obama - no-one, as far as I can tell, has ever demanded to see birth certificates of the previous 43 presidents.

It must also involve Obama's sworn political enemies, big names who really don't like his presidency and have genuine influence, but who are not jumping up and down about this?

Aren't people like Abercrombie and Matthews simply doing more to fuel the conspiracy theory?

After all, as the Associated Press reports "it is unclear what Abercrombie could do because Hawaii's privacy laws prevent the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who doesn't have a tangible interest."

No-one can doubt his good intentions, he knew Obama as a child.

He told the Los Angeles Times: "What bothers me is that some people who should know better are trying to use this for political reasons.

Maybe I'm the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, 'I was here when that baby was born.'"

But his hopes of putting the story to bed once and for all run the risk of backfiring. If he can't release that definitive piece of information, the birthers will simply say it adds to the unanswered questions.

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