LF: Obama won’t produce birth certificate because it would reveal TRUE identity of his father: Hawaii senator’s extraordinary claim

Title: Obama won’t produce birth certificate because it would reveal TRUE identity of his father: Hawaii senator’s extraordinary claim
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... rtificate-identity-father.html
Published: Apr 25, 2011
Author: Daily Mail Reporter
Post Date: 2011-04-25 07:52:13 by Sebastian
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A member of the Hawaii State Senate has said he believes Barack Obama is not releasing his long-form birth certificate because he may want to hide the identity or citizenship of his father.

Republican Sam Slom said the 'real issue' behind the reluctance of the U.S. President, who says he was born in Hawaii, to release full details from his birth certificate was unlikely to be because he wanted to hide his place of birth.

'My particular point of view... is that [Obama] probably was born [in Hawaii] and that the real issue is not the birth certificate, but what's on the birth certificate,' Slom said in an interview on New York's WABC 770 AM radio station.

Hawaiian Senator Sam Slom said Barack Obama is not releasing his long-form birth certificate because he may want to hide the identity or citizenship of his father

President Obama has faced claims that he was actually born in Kenya, not Hawaii

Hawaiian Senator Sam Slom, left, said Barack Obama is not releasing his long-form birth certificate because he may want to hide the identity or citizenship of his father

'It could have to do with what his name is on the birth certificate, who is actually listed as his father, the citizenship of the father,' Slom elaborated.

In recent months, the birthplace of Obama has become a burning issue, with detractors of the President questioning whether he was in fact born in Kenya - even though Hawaii officials have certified he was born in the U.S. state.

Slom, who said he once lived in the same building as Obama in Hawaii's capital, said: 'My belief is that there is a birth certificate, he was born here, but that there is information that for reasons known only to him he doesn't want released.

As well as his birth certificate, the US President has fought to keep his school records, employment records and medical records hidden.

Donald Trump said he's sent investigators to Hawaii to determine if Obama was really born there

'Why would anybody, let alone the president of the United States, spend millions of dollars in legal fees to keep that hidden? As long as that goes on,' he concluded, 'I think it's a legitimate issue,' Slom said.

Earlier this month Donald Trump publicly questioned the location of Obama's birthplace in an interview with the Today show, claiming there is a 56;big possibility57; President Obama has violated the Constitution.

The real estate tycoon, who is running in the race to be the Republican presidential candidate, said he had sent investigators to Hawaii to uncover 'one of the greatest cons in the history of politics and beyond'.

'I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding,' Trump said.

In an interview with CNN Trump pointed out that there are no photos of President Obama from when he was younger, only in his teenage years.

He said: 'If you go back to my first grade, my kindergarten, people remember me. Nobody from those early years remembers him.

'If you're going to be president of the United States, it says very profoundly you have to be born in this country.'

Sarah Palin has also jumped on the Trump 'birther' bandwagon, despite claiming earlier in the year that the issue was a distraction from more important issues.

'Obviously there is something that the president doesn't want people to see, that he sees going to great lengths to make sure it isn't shown. And I think that's perplexing for a lot of people,' she said.

The bill requires presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens before they can be included on Arizona's ballot and receive any votes from the state.

Candidates who don't have a long form of their birth certificate are also given the option to show two alternative documents, including a baptismal or circumcision certificate, a hospital birth record or a post-partum medical record.