They probably think that the library is going to send them the ORIGINAL birth certificate. As you say, that document remains safely in the state agency in Hawaii. The best that the library might have is the actual paper copy that Obama released in 2011. If the library has it, and if it WERE subject to a FOIA request, the library would not send even that piece of paper (which the birfers insist is a forgery anyway), but a photocopy of it, so they would have no more "proof" of his lack of eligibility than they do now which is none.bob wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 11:36 amThe libraries themselves are private institutions. That work with the federal archivist in maintaining the records. So, basically a private/public partnership.
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I saw that some birthers were chomping to send FOIA requests to the library to get Obama's birth certificate. Besides being profoundly dumb (Obama's birth certificate is in Hawaii, for starters), I have no idea what they expected to receive. The FOAD letter is "indirect confirmation" that Obama doesn't have a birth certificate?
For years, birfers have clamored for Obama to release the ORIGINAL birth certificate, which, of course, he doesn't have. AFAIK, NOBODY, but NOBODY has their original birth certificate. They may have the certified copy of it that their parents received when they were born, but not the original, which remains with whatever state or local agency originally recorded it.
I remember, back in 2010-2011, when the BC nonsense was at its peak, the republican then-governor of Hawaii visited the archives, where they showed her the actual original document filed in 1961. The republican then held a press conference to say that she had seen the original and that it was, indeed, issued by the state in 1961 and that it was in the possession of the State of Hawaii.
Besides, as someone pointed out back then, it doesn't really matter. The State of Hawaii issued a formal statement to the effect that they had the original BC and that it shows that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu in 1961. The full faith and credit clause of the US Constitution requires that other states and the Federal government take that statement at face value, unless it can be independently refuted.