"Wanna see Obama's birth certificate? Ok, give us $100!"

[Clio the Leo]

Brilliance! Make the birthers PAY for the stupid!

Hawaii lawmakers want release of Obama birth information
By MARK NIESSE,Associated Press
Jan 27, 2011

Anyone would be able to get a copy of President Barack Obama's birth records for a $100 fee under a bill introduced in the state Legislature that backers hope will finally dispel claims he was born elsewhere.

The bill would change a privacy law barring the release of birth records unless the requester is someone with a tangible interest, such as a close family member.

The measure was introduced by five Democrats but has not yet been scheduled for a public hearing, a required step before it can move forward. A decision on considering the bill will be made by the House's Democratic leadership and committee chairmen.

The idea behind the measure is to end skepticism over Obama's birthplace while raising a little money for a government with a projected budget deficit exceeding $800 million over the next two years.

"If it passes, it will calm the birthers down," said the bill's primary sponsor, Rep. Rida Cabanilla. "All these people are still doubting it because they don't want the birth certificate from Obama. They want it from our state office."

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"If people really want to confirm Barack Obama is born in Hawaii, that's fine," Mizuno said. "I don't have a problem with looking at innovative ways to bring revenue to the state. The taxpayers deserve a break."

The $100 fee would help offset the extra work by state employees who handle frequent phone calls and e-mails from people who believe Obama was born elsewhere, Cabanilla said.

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[AtomicKitten]

1. Excellent solution! Make 'em pay for their epic stupidity.

:thumbsup:

[whistler162]

2. Add three zeros to the fee and it is still a bad idea.....

nothing will calm the idiot birthers down.

[dkf]

4. Hawaii needs help.

How's bout thinking of it as an act of charity.

[RichGirl]

7. Of course it won't...

But this isn't about convincing them, it's about adding to the Hawaiian economy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. Agreed

Some WILL pony up the money yet still refuse to be satisfied until somehow they're "vindicated". No amount if going to fix "stupid". :banghead: :crazy:

[LeftyAndProud60]

3. Aren't they just going to give them a copy of the one on the internet? NT

[Clio the Leo]

11. that's the beauty of it! nt

[chollybocker]

5. Thank you, Hawaii.

This is the price of stupidity: $100 per. I hope they accept payment in gold bullion.

[jenmito]

6. It won't satisfy the birthers. They ALREADY have a new "theory"-that even if he WAS born in HI,

his father was NOT born in the U.S. and therefore, according to THEM, Obama is not a "natural born citizen." The birthers swear that a natural born citizen is one whose parents were both born in the U.S. :rofl:

[RichGirl]

8. Everything they say adds up to one thing...

They don't want a black president...period.

[jenmito]

9. Exactly. n/t

[treestar]

22. Absolutely

[Jackpine Radical]

10. They've already invented their own paleontology,

their own climatology, their own oil geology, and now they're devising their own language.

[jenmito]

15. Yup. And check out THIS "reasoning" about why Obama's mother falsely "registered" her son as an

American citizen born in HI (from freeperville):

"Also, Barack Obama was born during the very time period that the American People really fell in love with JFK on TV during his extraordinary televised live Presidential News Conferences. Greatly inspiring new Mommies and Daddies to groom their new offspring to be President of the United States someday.

Very, very common during the year 1961.

I know, I was there." :rofl:

[chollybocker]

18. I was born within months of Obama's birth

...and I'm STILL not President!

I blame my parents.

lulz :)

[RichGirl]

19. If he was "there"...he should have also...

...noticed the racial climate. I don't think the mommies of black babies were grooming their sons to be president. I don't think black or white baby girls were being groomed either. JFK told us that if you are a white male, from a very wealthy family...you too can be president.

The obvious thing, of course, is this: Let's say the freep is right and even Obama's mother was inspired. Why then would she have gone to Kenya to have her baby? Why would anybody who lives in a country with good hospitals, with good natal care, go to an empoverished country to have their baby.

I think if a study was done of all freeps, we would discover that they were ALL dropped on their heads as infants.

[nxylas]

20. And their own Constitution

Where the bits they disapprove of (like repeal of the three-fifths law) were conveniently "never properly ratified".

[Clio the Leo]

12. and the idiots apparently dont know that Andrew Jackson's parents...

.... were born in Ireland. (but I bet Ireland is ok, fewer black folks than Kenya)

[jenmito]

13. Funny how this whole thing only came up when the first Black President came along.

And they keep making excuses to not believe the latest proof that he's our legitimate, Constitutionally-eligible elected president.

[Clio the Leo]

14. yep "Black President" = problem; "President who have babies...."

"with their black slaves..." not a problem.

[jenmito]

16. Well...

according to Michelle Bachmann, the founding fathers ENDED slavery. :eyes:

[Clio the Leo]

17. they came here to form a SLAVERY FREE Nation!!!

And invited native Africans to come live with them, free from the oppression of their homelands! (and they even gave them dibs harvesting rice and sugarcane!) :sarcasm: of course.

[Jackpine Radical]

25. What, never heard of the Black Irish?

[Leithan]

21. P.T. Barnum Capitalism! I love it!

K&R!!!

[edsmeal]

24. Great idea for tourisim. LOL

Gotta love it.

[barbiegeek]

26. Should Charge $5,000

[Ohio Joe]

27. No, they are racist douchebags and will still not believe it. - nt

[MaeScott]

28. LOL! Too precious for words....nt