Not credible: Neil Abercrombie misleads, now can't seem to find Obama's original birth certificate

[UPDATE: Now he won't release it]

In late December, 2010, newly elected Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie said this (link):

"Maybe I'm the only one in the country that could look you right in the eye right now and tell you, 'I was here when that baby was born.' " ..."More than demonization — this is self-evisceration of politics," said Abercrombie, who raised the birthplace issue unprompted during the interview. "Empires fall and countries fall when that takes the place of discourse."

Then, a later interview with Abercrombie included this (link):

Mr. Abercrombie, 72, said that although he did not see the elder Obamas at the hospital with their newborn son, he did remember the couple bringing the baby to social events.

His earlier claim implied that he'd been at the hospital around the time that Obama was born, yet he was forced to admit that wasn't the case. And, it's not clear whether he could have even seen the baby Obama at "social events" since it's not clear whether Stanley Dunham and Barak Obama Sr. ever lived together and Stanley Dunham might have been in Seattle just three weeks after Obama was born. She apparently didn't return to Hawaii for a year or so, at which time Obama would no longer be a baby.

Further, the marriage between Barak Sr. and Stanley Dunham came as a surprise to their circle of friends, including Abercrombie [1].

So, not only does Abercrombie have a major credibility issue, but he's very personally invested in this issue [2]; because of both his testimony can't be trusted.

And, just yesterday came word that Abercrombie can't seem to find Obama's original birth certificate but apparently has just found some other sort of document [3].

Abercrombie claims that those who have questions about Obama's birthplace aren't "good Americans", yet - at least at this point in time - he can't locate Obama's original birth certificate which we've been told by the media for the past two years exists in Hawaiian records.

Now, the above doesn't mean that Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii. It's just further evidence that those who claim that we know all there is to know are lying. (For further examples, see the two articles linked above and the others about Abercrombie's crusade; discussing how they're misleading is left as an exercise.)

See the Obama citizenship page for extensive past coverage of this issue, including many examples of reporters and politicians lying about the basic facts of this matter.

[UPDATE: Now he won't release it]

UPDATE 2: A January 2009 interview casts doubt on whether Abercrombie saw Baby Obama as he claims.

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[1] time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-3,00.html

On Feb. 2, 1961, several months after they met, Obama's parents got married in Maui, according to divorce records. It was a Thursday. At that point, Ann was three months pregnant with Barack Obama II. Friends did not learn of the wedding until afterward. "Nobody was invited," says Abercrombie. The motivations behind the marriage remain a mystery, even to Obama.

[2] In addition to the inflammatory quotes elsewhere in the first two articles, see these video interviews with him:

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"It's an insult to his mother and father"

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"put those who want to disrespect the president and his parents in the proper light, which is to say they have a political agenda not worthy of any good American"

[3] link:

(Abercrombie said there is a recording of the birth in the State Archives and he wants to use that.)

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

...What I can do, and all I have ever said, is that I am going to see to it as governor that I can verify to anyone who is honest about it that this is the case.

If there is a political agenda then there is nothing I can do about that, nor can the president.