On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, that's pretty common. In fact it happened to Pres Obama and > Donald Trump who both requested copies of their birth certificates but > were issues "certificates of live birth". > > It is confusing. > > So here's what Trump originally issued, calling it his birth certificate: > http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/donaldtrump-birthcertificate-newsmax/2011/03/28/id/390930
For an official Birth Certificate from NY State you are instructed to go to the hospital you were born in to obtain it. Apparently NYC also has an official birth certificate. Both of the ones Trump displayed are birth certificates not certificates of live birth. So the joke falls flat. > Actually as pointed out in the next link, it was the certificate of live > birth: > http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Trump_fails_to_produce_birth_certificate.html So someone emailed him and said it wasn't official and of to the presses... > Mr. Trump, in trying to grandstand (mostly for publicity because he > licenses his name for $$ thus name-in-news is $$-in-the-bank for him), > actually fell into his own trap: his issued the wrong document! > > This link kind of explains it all: > http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/03/donald-trump-releases-official-birth-certificate.html And shows his official BC so what's your point? > Of course "birthers", those that think Pres Obama is not a US citizen, > are completely deluded. This is stuff that not even Karl Rove would > push. I think they just want some transparency from the most transparent administration evah > And the fact that so many Republican poll as believing it is > down-right scary. It shows prevalent gullibility and an inability to > think for ones self and to stand up for those thoughts. Those are > scary qualities. Isn't that why he won't release the official one so he can call people that ask kooks? Didn't the new Gov of Hawaii say it doesn't exist? > Of course the question to birthers is, what about your Republican > colleagues who think you're full of shit? Are you calling them fools? Sucks when a party isn't lockstep > It's just a fascinating lens to and revealer of human character. What's fascinating is when people try to paint people with questions as fools. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335809 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm