On April 22, 2011, Obama asked Loretta Fuddy, director of the Hawaii Department of Health, for certified copies of his original Certificate of Live Birth ("long-form birth certificate"). Accompanying the letter was a written request from Judith Corley, Obama's personal counsel, requesting a waiver of the department's policy on computer-generated certificates. Corley stated that granting the waiver would relieve the department of the burden of repeated inquiries into the President's birth records.
On April 25, 2011, Fuddy approved the request and witnessed the copying process as the health department's registrar issued the certified copies. The same day, Corley personally visited the department headquarters in Honolulu to pay the required fee on Obama's behalf, and received the two requested certified copies of the original birth certificate, an accompanying letter from Fuddy attesting to the authenticity of same, and a receipt for the processing fee. Fuddy said that she had granted the exception to its normal policy of issuing only computer-generated copies by virtue of Obama's status, in an effort to avoid ongoing requests for the birth certificate.
On April 27, White House staff gave reporters a copy of Obama's Certificate of Live Birth and also posted it on the White House website. This document confirms the details of the official short-form certificate released in 2008.
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My point is that no matter what happens there are going to be those who will try to discredit his presidency. And watch as many many people will claim this is not legitimate enough.
I'm not going after the race card on this one, though. I'm actually guessing a lot of this came from the fact that Obama doesn't have an American enough sounding name. I assure you that if he didn't have what many considered a funny name most people wouldn't bat an eye at it. If his name had been say... William Smith or something like that the birth certificate wouldn't have been trumped up (see what I did there?) because William Smith sounds American enough where as Barrack Obama sounds particularly foreign to most Americans (not that William or any other name given to a child in America is actually really an "American" name).