People love a good conspiracy.  Even today new conspiracy theories are still surfacing with regard to the Lincoln assassination.  How many people know that some nut jobs tried to steal Lincoln’s body and hold it for ransom?  They almost succeeded, since his body was stored in the unsecured basement of his monument in Springfield, Illinois.  The only reason the theft was unsuccessful is that the casket weighed too much and these clowns were unprepared for that.  As a result there was public outrage and Lincolns casket is now encased in concrete.  But, before they sealed him in permanently, there was a group of people who opened the casket to make sure his body was still there.  This was beyond bizarre.

There are regular new additions to the Kennedy Assassination story as well.  In both cases the actual circumstances are well documented.  That is particularly true with the Kennedy assassination.  Every qualified forensic expert who has evaluated the Kennedy assassination records acknowledges that Kennedy was struck by two and only two bullets.  They were both fired from very near the location where Oswald set up a sniper nest.  The bullets came from Oswald’s gun.  Yet the theories keep coming, because most people are dissatisfied with the conclusion that a pathetic worm like Oswald could buy a $4 rifle and off the President of the United States.    For years I thought that Castro had engineered the assassination in revenge for Kennedy trying to assassinate him.   Castro had a point.  But, there is simply no evidence of that.    When Oswald defected to Russia, the KGB thought Oswald was a CIA plant, but eventually realized he was just dumb.  For example, Oswald never even had a driver’s license.   Everyplace he went he traveled by bus.  He got the job at the Texas Book Depository before Kennedy made the decision to travel to Texas.  Oswald tried to assassinate General Edwin A. Walker a few days before he shot Kennedy.  Walker was saved by a wooden divider in his window that Obama didn’t notice.  Obviously if Oswald was part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, he wouldn’t have shot at General Walker who was not associated with Kennedy.   Oswald was just a nut case looking for someone to kill and Kennedy drove by his window.  The point is that full disclosure of documentation doesn’t seem to have much impact on stopping conspiracy theories.

But, there are exceptions.  Those exceptions are when real documents surface that confirm what was only suspected.  That is what happened with regard to Richard Nixon.  The audio tapes are what did him in.  In Bill Clinton’s case he was done in by the DNA evidence preserved by Monica Lewinsky on the famous dress.

The new Governor of Hawaii, a KoolAid drinking Obama supporter, wants to stop the “birther” movement.  He is promising to end the nonsense and hints that he will release the actual birth documents.  He may think he is helping Obama, but this story was old news and he just reignited it.

The only thing certain is that Obama does not want his actual birth records released.  He has spent a ton of money conducting an elaborate shell game designed to pretend to let people see these documents, but never letting it actually happen.

Obviously I haven’t seen the actual records, so I can only speculate as to what they would reveal.  So far, to the best of my knowledge, there are no known documents from a hospital, doctor or midwife regarding the birth of Obama.   If such documents do not exist, than the only documentation of where Obama was actually born will be in a signed affidavit from his mother, father, or one of his grandparents.  Since all of these individuals are dead, there is no way to verify the accuracy of such a document.   That would mean there was no definitive proof he was born in Hawaii and no definitive proof he wasn’t.   

Note:  Obama’s mother was a college student and his mother was a bank officer.  It is hard to believe he would have been born in Hawaii and never received any kind of treatment at a hospital.  If he was born in Honolulu, someone should have documents regarding either his birth or immediate post natal care.   It is extremely rare for a baby born in a major metropolitan area to not receive immediate care.

Of course there is always the possibility that the documents are there and Obama just didn’t disclose them.  One would wonder why.  There are rumors that his parents never married, but that hardly seems to be a problem worth the effort.  There are even some bizarre rumors that Frank Marshal Davis is his real father, but I find these hard to believe.  I really can’t think of a good reason for Obama to suppress these documents unless he has something major to hide, but if he was actually born in Hawaii, what else would be worth the effort? 

This whole story is bizarre and releasing the actual records will make it more bizarre.  For example the address given in the birth announcements   is in a rather expensive part of Oahu.  It doesn’t appear that either Obama’s mother or his grandparents would be able to afford to rent this house.   The owner of the house was not related to Obama, it was owned by a professor.   There may be a logical answer to this, but it is just another item in a long list of bizarre circumstances.

My prediction is that the birth story will heat up even more because of this new Governor’s attempt to tamp it down permanently.  The irony is that most conservatives have long considered this to be a non issue.  Now even the liberal left is becoming curious.  Chris Matthews is saying why not just release the Obama’s long-form birth certificate?  Sounds good to me.  When even someone as biased and dense as Chris Matthews figures this out, it is beyond obvious.  The more documents released the more questions.   In the end, we won’t know anything for certain other than that we don’t know anything for certain.  But, this story is heating up again and that is not good news for Obama. 

TDM