Oh, For Goodness Sake

Tim Adams A Low-Level Data Entry Clerk

From Dave Weigel:

I checked with Glen Takahashi, the administrator of the Honolulu City Clerk’s office, and while he verified that Adams worked there, he explained – gently making it clear he did not want to “call anyone a liar” — that Adams never actually had access to information about Barack Obama.

“Our office does not have access to birth records,” Takahashi said. “That’s handled by the state of Hawaii Department of Health. Where he’s getting that, I don’t know. Put it this way: Barack Obama was not trying to register to vote in Hawaii. He is, as far as I know, not a registered voter here. So no one was looking that up.”

Takahashi explained that the “senior elections clerk” job that Adams held was a low-level data entry position dealing with voter registration and absentee ballots — Adams was one of dozens of temporary employees who staffed the pre-election rush. And he contradicted Adams’s claims that Obama’s lack of a birth certificate was an “open secret” or that voters contacted the office to ask about it.

“To be honest, I fielded no questions about that,” Takahashi said. “Why would anyone ask us? We don’t have those records.”

See also: Birthers’ New Bright Shining Object Dims

Birther lawyer Mario Apuzzo has taken out an ad in the Washington Times based on this nonsense.

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