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One needs to provide a birth certificate to get a U.S. passport. How did Obama get a passport?

If he was born overseas, and/or lost his citizenship when adopted in Indonesia, then didn’t he have to become a naturalized citizen to regain his citizenship at some point? And wouldn’t he have had to provide that paperwork to get his passport?

I think his passport file would contain some answers to these questions.

The short form Hawaii Certification of Live Birth that appears in scanned in form on the factcheck.org website is all that is needed to receive a passport or a social security card as it is the only birth certificate that the state of Hawaii issues.
At the bottom of the certificate it says: “This copy serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding.” (HRS 338-13(b), 338-19.)
The original version of Barack Hussein Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth (#151 1961-010641) is on file with the state of Hawaii Department of Health. Obama obtained a copy of it from them on June 6, 2007.
The copy of the original that has been posted on the internet on various web sites was stamped and dated as having been issued on June 6, 2007 by Alvin T. Onaka, Hawaii state registrar and it contains Onaka’s official seal and stamp.
http://www.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/birth_certificate_3.jpg
This issue is a distraction from the legitimate and much more serious campaign issues and will lead nowhere.

This issue is a distraction from the legitimate and much more serious campaign issues and will lead nowhere.

So don't let it distract you and go away.

So why didn’t they just submit a vault copy to the court, as McCain did and get past this?

The short form Hawaii Certification of Live Birth that appears in scanned in form on the factcheck.org website is all that is needed to receive a passport or a social security card as it is the only birth certificate that the state of Hawaii issues.

You are wrong on 2 points. First the COLB is NOT a copy of the original. It is a summary. Second, it is NOT the only copy that Hawaii issues. This is from one of their websites:

http://hawaii.gov/dhhl/applicants/appforms/applyhhl

When applying for an application for DHHL (Department of Hawaii of Home lands) it states the following: In order to process your application, DHHL utilizes information that is found only on the original Certificate of Live Birth, which is either black or green. This is a more complete record of your birth than the Certification of Live Birth (a computer-generated printout). Submitting the original Certificate of Live Birth will save you time and money since the computer-generated Certification requires additional verification by DHHL. When requesting a certified copy of your birth certificate from the Vital Records Section of DOH, let the clerk know you are requesting it “For DHHL Purposes,” and that you need a copy of the original Certificate of Live Birth and not the computer-generated Certification. If mailing in your request form, please fill in “For DHHL Purposes” in the “Reason for Requesting a Certified Copy” section. (See example on page 6.)