Hawaii governor can't find Obama birth certificate

Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, needs Crest Whitestrips

Honolulu, Jan 19, 2011. Democrat Governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie suggested in an interview published yesterday that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.

Abercrombie told the  Honolulu Star Advertiser he was searching within the Hawaii Department of Health to find definitive vital records that would prove Obama was born in Hawaii, because the continuing eligibility controversy could hurt the president's chances of re-election in 2012.

Donalyn Dela Cruz, Abercrombie's spokeswoman in Honolulu, ignored again today another in a series of repeated requests made for an interview with the governor.

Toward the end of the interview, the newspaper asked Abercrombie: "You stirred up quite a controversy with your comments regarding birthers and your plan to release more information regarding President Barack Obama's birth certificate. How is that coming?"

In his response, Abercrombie acknowledged the birth certificate issue will have "political implications" for the next presidential election "that we simply cannot have."

Suggesting he was still intent on producing more birth records on Obama from the Hawaii Department of Health vital records vault, Abercrombie told the newspaper there was a recording of the Obama birth in the state archives that he wants to make public.

Abercrombie did not report to the newspaper that he or the Hawaii Department of Health had found Obama's long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate. The governor only suggested his investigations to date had identified an unspecified listing or notation of Obama's birth that someone had made in the state archives.

"It was actually written, I am told, this is what our investigation is showing, it actually exists in the archives, written down," Abercrombie said.

For seemingly the first time, Abercrombie frankly acknowledged that presidential politics motivated his search for Obama birth record.

He implied that the failure to resolve the questions that remain unanswered about the president's birth and early life may damage his chance for re-election.

Governor Abercombie is a close friend of the Presidents, and is working hard to "clear his name" so this controversy won't harm President Obama's reelection efforts.

"I've tried my best" he told us, "but so far I haven't found anything that proves he was born in Hawaii. And it doesn't help that Kenya keeps bragging about one of their homeboys pulling a fast one on the USA and getting elected President."