The announcements do not exactly help the birthers cause, in my opinion. There is nothing factual about the birth announcements appearing in two different newspapers but it kind of adds credence to Obama being borned in the US.
It may, but it shouldn't. The announcements do not give a place of birth, not even the hospital. They were presumably generated by the filing of the birth certificate, as is customary. But as to what the BC says, about Hospital, if any, doctor, if any, and who signed as witness to the birht, is still a mystery. One that could be solved quite easily by a court, or BHO, authorizing the state of Hawaii to release a certified copy of the original BC. Now such a document might still say he was born in Hawaii, but if someone other than a doctor or nurse signed it as witness, and the place is other than a hospital in Hawaii, then it would cast doubt on the legitimacy of that filing.
The COLB does not show the hospital or address at which the bith took place, nor does it show the doctor's name. Furthermore the file number it does show, is lower than those of the Nordyke twins, who were born in Kapi'olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital Aug. 5, 1961, one day after Obama was supposedly born at the same facility. But their long form birth certificate shows that it was filed Aug. 11th, 3 days *after* the date listed as the date Obama's was filed.