Then, naturally, the question would be raised as to whether the putative evidence — i.e., old newspaper clippings or photocopy images thereof — could possibly be explained by something other than the otherwise unsupported assertion of native birth.

To that issue, we now have reports that it was common practice in Hawaii at the time for parents (or grandparents) in cases of nonisland (and potential non-U.S. citizenship) births to fabricate a paper trail with such false newspaper announcement submissions. All it required was an unsworn form filed with the state.

No, this was not necessarily done with the expectation that a newborn would want to run for president over 40 years hence — to dispel a favorite canard of the Obama apologists — but was motivated by a generalized expectation of future benefits of citizenship.

The contrived paper record, in other words, could help undergird a future citizenship claim, it was thought — much as is being done now by Obama! Obviously, this would have been a natural motive with foreign off-island birth cases involving one noncitizen parent, which would have disqualified for citizenship otherwise. Q.E.D.

Then, again, there is the notorious “Certification of Live Birth,” a decades-later reproduction of some of the information from an original birth certificate, supposedly. To those who want to believe that this neo-artifact is probative: Think really, really hard. Can you conceive of any way this evidence could be undermined or rebutted, in court or otherwise, as less than convincing?

The “certification” is a copy, after all. A copy of what? Perhaps it was indeed copied from Obama’s true birth certificate, but not necessarily. It may have been derived (even unknowingly) from a forged birth certificate, even a very good forgery, containing key false information.

The origin of this scheme would have occurred around the time Obama was thinking about beginning a political career. And again, the primary source question looms. Why not just use the original document? And statements by Hawaii officials supporting the authenticity of this ersatz record have been likewise unsworn, tellingly.

An unlikely, extreme, paranoid hypothesis? Don’t forget, Obama is a creature of the Chicago political machine. Ponder that group’s reputation or recall some of the unsavory methods used by the Clintons, and that Obama bested them at their own game.

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