The Hawaiian state health official who personally reviewed Barack Obama's original birth certificate has affirmed again that the document is "real" and denounced "conspiracy theorists" in the so-called "birther" movement for continuing to spread bogus claims about the issue. "It’s kind of ludicrous at this point," Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the former director of Hawaii's Department of Health, said in a rare telephone interview with NBC. Fukino, sounding both exasperated and amused, spoke to a reporter in the aftermath of Donald Trump's statements on the NBC Today show last week questioning whether Obama has a legitimate birth certificate. [..........] She found the original birth record, properly numbered, half typed and half handwritten, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama, located in the files.

Ok, great, so let's see it and we can all shut up. But wait.....a new glitch....

Wisch, the spokesman for the [Hawaii] attorney general's office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of "vital records," including an original "record of live birth" — even to the individual whose birth it records. "It's a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody," he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted to inspect his birth record, Wisch said.

Naturally NBC omits that Wisch was chairman of Howard Dean's presidential campaign in Hawaii. But wait, what's this?

Hawaii Revised Statutes, Paragraph 38-13(a) specifies that the agency "shall, upon request, furnish an applicant a certified copy of any certificate, or the contents of any certificate, or any part thereof." Further, subparagraph C allows that copies of birth certificates "may be made by photograph, dry copy reproduction, typing, computer printout or other process approved by the director of health."

For a fisking and recently supplied certified copies of long-form birth certificates from Hawaii see here. At this point conservatives like Karl Rove and, alas, Ann Coulter who pooh-poohed the modest idea that Obama should show his birth certificate look like dupes. If it's there, fine, Obama's been toying with the rubes, ho-ho-ho. There's the small matter of all his other biographical records which have been wiped or sealed, but the birth certificate is basic.

This won't go away because it's so simple - why won't Obama show his birth certificate? Trump gets it and any a-political person gets it. You need to be sophisticated not to get it.