Loretta Fuddy & Obama's Birth Certificate

July 24, 2009 [11:03 AM] Los Angeles Times Blog, CNN President Jon Klein declares Obama birther story 'dead', by Matea Gold,

July 25, 2009, Los Angeles Times, CNN chief addresses Obama birth controversy; Jon Klein e-mails 'Lou Dobbs Tonight' staffers that legitimacy of the president's birth certificate is a 'dead' story but doesn't order them to drop the issue, by Matea Gold,

July 28, 2009, USA Today, Hawaii: Obama birth certificate is real,

November 11, 2009, New York Times, Lou Dobbs Abruptly Quits CNN, by Brian Stelter and Bill Carter, Archived,

November 12, 2009, Media Matters, [Updated: 11:52 AM EST] So, what really happened to Lou Dobbs?, by Karl Frisch,

April 27, 2011, Press Release, The White House, President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate, Archived,

August 27, 2013, MidWeek.com, Promoting A Healthier Hawaii, by Susan Kang, Sunderland, Archived,

December 12, 2013, Los Angeles Times, Fatal Hawaii plane crash triggers fresh conspiracy theories, by Soumya Karlamangla, diigo,

December 12, 2013, Time Magazine, Hawaii Official Killed in Plane Crash; Eight others survived the small plane crash off the Hawaiian island of Molokai, by Nate Rawlings,

December 12, 2013 [6:48 a.m. HST] Hololulu Star-Advertiser, Pilot described 'catastrophic engine failure' in Molokai crash, by Gregg K. Kakesako, Archived,

December 13, 2013, Los Angeles Times, Crash fuels conspiracists, by Soumya Karlamangla, diigo,

January 28, 2015, NewsMax.com, Barack Obama Citizenship Scandal: 7 Facts About Birth Certificate Controversy, by Alana Marie Burke,

n.d., Hawaii State Department of Health > About The Late Loretta Fuddy, Archived,

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August 27, 2013, MidWeek.com, Promoting A Healthier Hawaii, by Susan Kang, Sunderland, Archived,

Fuddy embellished her passion with degrees in social work and public health from the University of Hawaii. She also did doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins University. She served as deputy director of the state Department of Health from 2001 to 2002. She was appointed director in March 2011, culminating 38 years of experience in the fields of health and human services.

Fuddy, you see, is the first social worker to be tapped for the director of health role. Past directors tended to have medical or public heath backgrounds.

Loretta Fuddy became director of Hawaii's health department in March 2011, and Obama's birth certificate was released on April 27, 2011, meaning she had been on the job for less than two months.

But the birther issue was of much longer standing (see: NewsMax)

January 28, 2015, NewsMax.com, Barack Obama Citizenship Scandal: 7 Facts About Birth Certificate Controversy, by Alana Marie Burke,

"In 2008, Jim Geraghty from the National Review Online suggested Barack Obama release his birth certificate to "debunk some rumors."

"In 2009, USA Today reported this statement from Hawaii's Health Director. "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barrack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago."

In this context, Dr. Chiyome Fukino's 2009 communication appears to be curt and obfusticatory, but it draws attention to the fact that Fuddy lacks a Dr. before her name.

Fuddy's wikipedia page says

She received degrees in sociology, social work and public health from the University of Hawaii.[7] [5] Fuddy also completed doctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. [5]

although footnote [5] references a profile posted on an obscure website "MidWeek.com" only a few months before she died, which clearly states "Fuddy embellished her passion with degrees in social work and public health from the University of Hawaii. She also did doctoral studies at Johns Hopkins University."

For the wikipedia author to misrepresent her educational achievement, and rename the sole reference as Johns Hopkins "School of Medicine," (doctoral studies at a school of medicine would make one a medical doctor, right?) implies to me a certain skitishness about her qualifications.

She was 63 years old, and had been a deputy in the state health department