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Why doesnt Obama simply reveal actual birth certificate? Why does the Hawaii Gov. order the birth record sealed??

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Although the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama's birth
certificate has become a focus of intense speculation – and even several
lawsuits – WND has learned that Hawaii's Gov. Linda Lingle has placed the
candidate's birth certificate under seal and instructed the state's Department
of Health to make sure no one in the press obtains access to the original
document under any circumstances.

The governor's office officially declined a request made in writing by WND in
Hawaii to obtain a copy of the hospital-generated original birth certificate
of Barack Obama.

"It does not appear that Dr. Corsi is within any of these categories of
persons with a direct and tangible interest in the birth certificate he
seeks," wrote Roz Makuala, manager of constituent services in the governor's
office, in an e-mailed response to a WND request seeking the information.

Those listed as entitled to obtain a copy of an original birth certificate
include the person born, or "registrant" according to the legal description
from the governor's office, the spouse or parent of the registrant, a
descendant of the registrant, a person having a common ancestor with the
registrant, a legal guardian of the registrant, or a person or agency acting
on behalf of the registrant.

WND was told the official reason for denial of access to Obama's birth
certificate would be authority granted pursuant to Section 338-18 of the
Hawaii Revised Statutes, a provision the anonymous source claimed was designed
to prevent identity theft.

Still, the source told WND confidentially the motivation for withholding the
original birth certificate was political, although the source refused to
disclose whether there was any information on the original birth certificate
that would prove politically embarrassing to Obama.

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The source also refused to answer WND's question whether the original document
on file with the Department of Health was a hospital-generated birth
certificate or a registration of birth that may have been filed subsequent to
the birth.

The anonymous source made clear the Hawaii Department of Health would
immediately release Obama's original birth certificate, provided Obama
requested the document be released, but the Department of Heath has received
no such request from the senator or from anyone acting officially on his
behalf.

WND also found on microfilm in the Honolulu downtown public library a notice
published under the "Births, Marriages, Deaths" section of the Honolulu Sunday
Advertiser for August 13, 1961, on page B-6, noting: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack II
Obama. 6085 Kalanianaole-Hwy, son, Aug. 4."

In searching through the birth notices of the Honolulu Advertiser for 1961,
WND found many birth notices were published between one and two weeks after
the date of birth listed.

The notice in the Honolulu Advertiser does not list the hospital where the
Obama son was born or the doctor who delivered the baby.

In a startling development, Obama's Kenyan grandmother has reportedly alleged
she witnessed Obama's birth at the Coast Provincial Hospital in Mombasa,
Kenya.

Friday, U.S. Federal judge Richard Barclay Surrick, a Clinton appointee,
dismissed a lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania attorney Phillip J. Berg who
alleged Obama was not a U.S. "natural born" citizen and therefore ineligible
for the presidency under the specifications of the U.S. Constitution, under
Article II, Section 1.

Berg told WND last week he does not have a copy of a Kenyan birth certificate
for Obama that he alleges exists.

In Kenya, WND was told by government authorities that all documents concerning
Obama were under seal until after the U.S. presidential election on November
4.

The Obama campaign website entitled "Fight the Smears" posts a state of Hawaii
"Certificate of Live Birth" which is obviously not the original birth
certificate generated by the hospital where Obama reportedly was born.

"Fight the Smears" declares, "The truth is, Barack Obama was born in the state
of Hawaii in 1961, a native citizen of the United States of America."

Although the Obama campaign could immediately put an end to all the challenges
by simply producing the candidate's original birth certificate, it has not
done so. And the "Fight the Smears" website offers no explanation as to why
Obama has refused to request, and make public, an original hospital-generated
birth certificate which the Hawaii Department of Health may possess.

Jerome R. Corsi is a staff reporter for WND. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard
University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and
articles, including his latest best-seller, "The Late Great USA." Corsi
co-authored with John O'Neill the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, "Unfit for
Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." Other books
include "Showdown with Nuclear Iran," "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of
Scarcity and the Politics of Oil," which he co-authored with WND columnist
Craig. R. Smith, and "Atomic Iran."