"For believers, it works like this: So what if Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the director of Hawaii's Department of Health, released a statement saying she has verified that the state has the original birth certificate on record?"

It's more importatnt what was NOT said and what the reader is left to ASSUME.

A COLB (Certificate Of Live Birth, the "Document" on Obama's "Fight The Smears website, which, BTW, was not actually provided by Obama as well) CAN be issued to ANYONE, including an individual born outside Hawaii, and the USA.

The statement only says that "she has verified the state has the original birth certificate on record. Look at the statement yourself.