I'm with Cracker on this. From what I understand, according to Obama's sister and grandmother, is that Obama's mom wanted to have her baby in Hawaii but was considered to close to her delivery and wasn't allowed to fly. She had baby in Kenya then flew to Hawaii and applied for a certificate of live birth once there. Why wouldn't Obama's grandparents place announcements in newspapers? Maybe they were proud of their new grandchild. Don't forget that they were not very wealthy and gettting a BC for the US would open many more doors than being a citizen of Kenya would.
Ok so let's assume for a moment that this is what happened (even though there is no proof).
His mother is an American so therefore Obama would be an American citizen by his mothers birth.
But then the birthers will say that she was only 18 years old and that means she did not live 5 years over the age of 14 in the US voiding that law. Because she was a couple months shy of 19, so a technicallity that would mean Barrack was not an American citizen.
So in their eyes they are willing to try to root out every possible technicallity to 'prove' how he could not be an American. Which is shitty of them since they mostly seem to think that the governement is too involved with our lives anyway and we should only follow the consitution, which oddly enough is kind of silent on this because in it anyone that is a citizen of a state was considered a citizen of the country.
It wasn't until the Dredd Scott case that birthrights came in (mid 1800's).
So the same 'consitutionalists' are bringing up every technicallity that they can think of to make Obama illegitimate.
And why is this so important?
The congress voted that he is Hawaiin, he has proved enough in the eyes of the law to be president, he has put up a Certificate of Live Birrth, and also a pic of the newspaper announcement.
It is obvious that his American mother wanted him to be an American. Does it really matter if every crackpot theory of where he was born (because his mom was not allowed to fly to the states like she wanted to) is actaully proven right, because his American mother was months away from being 19 when she had him?
Does it make anything that he has in his life different? Does it make his schooling different, his experience as a state and federal senator different, his family life? Wouldn't he be the same person today regardless of where he was before he turned 3 days old?