I wasn’t aware newspapers even did birth announcements back then. If that’s the case, I find this whole thing very, very silly. How hard would it be for someone to go look at the microfiche or something? I’ll volunteer to go to Hawaii if FR pays my way!!!
And how hard would it be for a newspaper to make a mistake in such listings.Or how hard would it be for someone to *fool* a newspaper in such a matter?
You're willing to make the supreme sacrifice, eh?...:-)
A birth certificate issued by a local health department does not typically list the witnesses to the live birth, only a recording of the birth, and would usually require simply a statement by the parent and a witness. Hospitals provide their own certificates of live birth and that information is normally used by the government entity.
I find it very plausible that if Obama was born in Kenya efforts were made by his mother to have his birth registered in Hawaii to maintain a US citizenship -- however fraudulently.
What you really want is that hospital certificate, with the attending physician statement -- or the original statement of witnesses.
Nothing of the sort has ever been produced by the Obama camp, and the certified birth statement floating on the net compliments of factcheck.org is very suspect since it was modified using photoshop back in June of this year when questions arose.
The birth announcement is questionable as it is in a type font different than the rest of the page on microfiche.
If Obama had a US birth certificate he would have produced it by now. But his medical records and college admissions records - both containg his birthplace - have not been opened to public scrutiny either.
The junior Senator from Illinois is hiding something.