Michael Steele defends RNC meeting in Hawaii, noting state is Obama's 'birthplace ... his backyard'

Speaking to reporters this morning at a Honolulu news conference, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele expressed frustration “at the response of some inside and outside the media … who have opined on the matter.”

The “matter” was the fact that the RNC is meeting in sunny Hawaii this week.

Steele started his defense by pointing out the obvious: Hawaii is one of the 50 states of the union (and has been since Aug. 21, 1959), so it’s a perfectly legitimate place to hold a meeting.

Moreover, Steele said, “The problems here in Hawaii that the people face are no different than the problems that are faced on the mainland.” He tossed a big bouquet to Gov. Linda Lingle, a fellow Republican, and said that by meeting in President Obama’s stamping ground -- his “birthplace … his backyard” -- Republicans were sending a signal the party was “going to compete on every inch of soil in this nation.”

-- Mark Z. Barabak

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Photo: Steele addresses reporters today at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu. Credit: Associated Press

Comments

[Ankhorite]

So Chairman Steele admits that Hawaii is President Obama's "birthplace...his back yard."

Has he mentioned this to the Birther movement?

[Gone Rogue]

...tell that to Eric Cantor.

[Forseti]

Hawaii is not the issue. The first paragraph of the United States Supreme Court's website makes the following promise to the American People - “As the final arbiter of the law, the Court is charged with ensuring the American people the promise of equal justice under law and, thereby, also functions as guardian and interpreter of the Constitution.” To date, the United States Supreme Court has failed to do anything in furtherance of the search for the truth about Obama's natural born citizen status. Furthermore, not one single solitary person or agency in the Executive, Legislative, or the rest of the Judicial branch of government has done anything other than accept Obama’s posted Certification of Live Birth as conclusive evidence of his alleged birthplace.

Mr. Obama claims that he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. As his only evidence that he meets the Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that a President be a natural born citizen, he produced a document called a “Certification of Live Birth,” which he posted on his website under the title: “Barack Obama’s Official Birth Certificate.”

At first blush, it is case closed. A closer examination of the facts, however, reveals that Mr. Obama failed to point out on his website that his posted “Official Birth Certificate,” as he called it, is actually a 2007 computer-generated, laser-printed summary document of his 1961 vital record(s) on file with the Hawaii State Department of Health. What we do not know, however, is what 1961 vital record the Certification of Live Birth is summarizing.

In 1961 there were at least six different procedures available to obtain a vital record (birth certificate) that the Certification of Live Birth could be summarizing. Five of the six procedures lacked an adequate indicia of reliability and trustworthiness because they were fraught with the potential for fraud. That said, an “official” state-issued document that summarizes a document that lacks an adequate indicia of reliability and trustworthiness is not worth the paper it is printed on. Scans of the original Hawaii Revised Laws from that era can be found at http://birther.com .

Why does all of this matter? This nation can not risk having a President who may harbor divided loyalties because the President of the United States is one of the three branches of government. He is the Executive branch. The nation speaks to all people through one voice, the President’s. The President can make treaties, grant pardons, sign and veto legislation, appoint a Cabinet, as well as Supreme Court Justices. In addition to these duties, the President knows the nation’s most important and secure secrets, and as the Commander in Chief of the military, has the military’s nuclear launch codes at the ready, and who can arguably, either take steps to weaken the nation, or even destroy it. In the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, “The president of the United States now for 50 years is followed at all times, 24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a football that contains the nuclear codes that he would use and be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States. He could launch the kind of devastating attack the world has never seen. He doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress. He doesn’t have to check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.”

I'll close this post with a quote: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."