Hawaiian? Or lyin'? ~ By Joseph Farah

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Joseph Farah Posted: January 09, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 I read with bemusement this week about Hawaii's many plans for honoring the first American president to claim the island state as his birthplace. All in all, Hawaiian officials seem eager to claim Barack Obama as a native son even while failing to provide a modicum of proof that he was actually born there. Amazingly, given the secretive status of the birth hospital, at least one legislator is even proposing an Obama birthplace state park. State park? Why not at least a plaque at the actual birthplace? How is it that state officials are neglecting the hospital? Why is the medical establishment he was born in still a better kept secret than who ghost-wrote his autobiography? With all the hoopla over Obama in Hawaii, why is no institution willing to come forward and proclaim, with pride, that Obama was born there – and provide some evidence while it's at it? More than five months ago now, around Obama's alleged Aug. 4 birthday, I stepped out publicly and offered a $10,000 charitable gift to the hospital found on his long-form birth certificate. All he or the hospital or the state of Hawaii would have to do to claim the prize is show the American public the document that should have been produced long ago to claim the presidency as a natural born citizen. As I said back then, "We've tried the stick. Today, as Barack Obama celebrates what he claims to be his birthday, I want to try the carrot approach. Obama has said he was born in Kapi'olani Hospital in Honolulu. He participated in a fundraiser for the medical center in January. WND will send a check to whatever birth hospital is listed on his long-form birth certificate. All Obama has to do to see that donation made is to release it publicly." Today I will amend that challenge. READ FULL STORY >