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Can The State of Hawaii be any clearer (a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_birth_certificate"from the AP/a)?blockquoteState officials in span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248770757_0"Hawaii/span on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248770757_1"Barack Obama/span was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president. pThey hoped to stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama's birthplace./p "I ... have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248770757_2"Hawaii State Department of Health/span verifying span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248770757_3"Barack Hussein Obama/span was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen," Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said in a brief statement. /blockquoteThen there's this a few paragraphs down:blockquoteHowever, it appears Congress has moved on and has accepted Obama's island birthplace. The U.S. House on Monday unanimously approved a resolution recognizing and celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii becoming the span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248770757_10"50th state/span. A clause was included that reads: "Whereas the span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248770757_11"44th President of the United States/span, span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1248770757_12"Barack Obama/span, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961."/blockquote I suspect, however, that all these "facts" won't deter teh crazie much.br /br /UPDATE: The resolution passed the House by a a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll647.xml"vote of 378-0/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8213262-4315308588523205403?l=2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com'//div

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