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Again, the state of Hawaii comes out and says the Obama birth certificate is real, and he was born int he United States. But yet again, Obama has refused to do what his opponent John McCain did, and release the birth certificate.

State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.

They hoped to stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama’s birthplace.

“I … have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen,” Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said in a brief statement. “I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”

So-called “birthers” — who claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States — have grown more vocal recently on blogs and television news shows.

Fukino issued a similar press release Oct. 31, but was prompted to speak out again because of the renewed attention on Obama’s beginnings. Hawaii’s Health Department has been flooded in recent weeks with questions from individuals and several national TV news networks asking for proof that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii.

Barack Obama can settle all of this by giving Hawaii permission to release the birth certificate, but he refuses because there’s something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t want anyone to see. we’ll never know what it is. But for a guy who says he’s going to run the most transparent White House in history, he sure is being maximally obstructionist when it comes to this.