On April 11 2011, the director of Hawaii’s Department of Health during the last election spoke in small words as she tried a third time to explain to “birthers” in America that the existence of Barack Obama’s birth certificate has already been conclusively verified. (See here for her previous official statements). In an interview with NBC News, the GOP-contributing Dr. Chiyome Fukino explained exactly what has been done in Hawaii to verify President Obama’s birth there:

“It’s kind of ludicrous at this point,” Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the former director of Hawaii’s Department of Health, said in a rare telephone interview with NBC…. “They’re going to question the ink on which it was written or say it was fabricated,” said Fukino. “The whole thing is silly.”

Donald Trump, who says he is considering a run for president, repeated his claims on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, saying that “nobody has any information” about the president’s birth and that “if he wasn’t born in this country, he shouldn’t be president of the United States.”…

As the top Hawaiian official in charge of state health records in 2008, when the issue of Obama’s birth first arose, Fukino said she thought she had put the matter to rest. Contacted by NBC, Fukino expanded on previous public statements and made two key points when asked about Trump’s recent comments.

The first is that the original so-called “long form” birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a “record of live birth” — absolutely exists, located in a bound volume in a file cabinet on the first floor of the state Department of Health. Fukimo said she has personally inspected it — twice. The first time was in late October 2008, during the closing days of the presidential campaign, when the communications director for the state’s then Republican governor, Linda Lingle (who appointed Fukino) asked if she could make a public statement in response to claims then circulating on the Internet that Obama was actually born in Kenya.

Before she would do so, Fukino said, she wanted to inspect the files — and did so, taking with her the state official in charge of vital records. She found the original birth record, properly numbered, half typed and half handwritten, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama, located in the files. She then put out a public statement asserting to the document’s validity. She later put out another public statement in July 2009 — after reviewing the original birth record a second time.

“It is real, and no amount of saying it is not, is going to change that,” Fukino said. Moreover, she added, her boss at the time, Lingle — who was backing John McCain for president — would presumably have to be in on any cover up since Fukino made her public comment at the governor’s office’s request. “Why would a Republican governor — who was stumping for the other guy — hold out on a big secret?” she asked.

Her second point — one she made repeatedly in the interview — is that the shorter, computer generated “certification of live birth” that was obtained by the Obama campaign in 2007 and has since been publicly released is the standard document that anybody requesting their birth certificate from the state of Hawaii would receive from the health department.

The document was distributed to the Obama campaign in 2007 after Obama, at the request of a campaign official, personally signed a Hawaii birth certificate request form downloaded on the Internet, according to a former campaign official who asked for anonymity. (Obama was “testy” when asked to sign the form but did so anyway to put the issue to rest, the former campaign official said. The White House has dismissed all questions about the president’s birth as “fictional nonsense.”)

The certification that the campaign received back —which shows that Obama was born in Honolulu at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961 — was based on the content of the original document in state files, Fukino said.

“What he got, everybody got,” said Fukino. “He put out exactly what everybody gets when they ask for a birth certificate.”…

Joshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii attorney general’s office, noted that a public index of vital records, available for inspection in a bound volume at the Health Department’s Office of Health Status Monitoring, lists a male child named “Obama II, Barack Hussein” as having been born in the state….

Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general’s office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of “vital records,” including an original “record of live birth” — even to the individual whose birth it records.

“It’s a Department of Health record and it can’t be released to anybody,” he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted to inspect his birth record, Wisch said.

But if he or anybody else wanted a copy of their birth records, they would be told to fill out the appropriate state form and receive back the same computer generated “certification of live birth” form that everybody else gets — which is exactly what Obama did four years ago.

How has the “birther” community reacted to the slow and patient explanation by Dr. Fukino and reporters for NBC News? With posts like this from James P. Wickstrom, former Constitution Party candidate for U.S. Senate and current pastor with the New Christian Crusade Church:

April 25, 2011

In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama’s qualifications for the presidency, the group “Americans for Freedom of Information” has released copies of President Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College.

The transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia while an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California.

The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify for this scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.

That’s the text of a hoax AP article an unidentified person wrote two years ago as an April Fool’s joke. It’s been debunked repeatedly and thoroughly since then, but that doesn’t stop the “birthers” from sending out the hoax over and over again as “breaking news.”

Like Nigel Tufnel repeatedly insisting that his amplifier is better because it “goes to 11,” the birth certificate conspiracy community will keep on insisting that Obama was born outside the USA. Why? Because these people have something more powerful than facts driving them. Consider what other text James P. Wickstrom includes on his web page:

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The Jew and Black Communist Movement in the U.S.

The Jewish Conspiracy Movie

This website is dedicated to the education of the Children of YHVH (pronounced “Yah-Way”) The White Western European people and nations, including the United States And Iceland, who are the Sons and Daughters of YAHWEH who are of the House of Jacob-Israel and are the House of Judah. (not the Jews of today)

Reuben is Holland , Simeon is Spain, Judah is the Germanic States, Germany, Ireland, Scotland and White Russia, (Judah had twin sons). Zebulun is France, Issachar is Finland, Dan is Denmark, Gad is Italy, Asher is Sweden, Naphtali is Norway, Benjamin is Iceland , The House of Joseph got a double portion; Ephraim is England, – Manasseh is the United States with the Eagle and the 13 olive branches and the 13 arrows in our national and racial Seal.All White European men, women and children – not jews

How can facts compete with that?