[Hoot Gibson]

http://my.democrats.org/page/content/pre...source=HQB

The long form is not the version that people from HI can get. It took lawyers to get the long version.

The short form certificate of live birth does not establish that Barack Obama was a "natural born citizen" of the United States. It does not even include basic information such as the name or location of the hospital at which the subject was born. That is the distinction that raised questions in the minds of many Americans as to whether Obama was born in the US or was a naturalized citizen who was born abroad.

You will not find an accurate description of the issues that were raised by the "birthers" on the democrats.org website. For the past three years, Obama and the Democrats have claimed that he posted a copy of his "birth certificate" on his campaign site. At the very best, those statements were carefully worded half-truths that ignored the shortcomings of the abbreviated "certificate of live birth" that was made public.