Not according to the Republican Governor of Hawaii when he first started running.
“You know, during the campaign of 2008, I was actually in the mainland campaigning for Sen. McCain. This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. And so I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact. And yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue. And I think it’s, again, a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this. It’s been established. He was born here.”—Governor Linda Lingle, May 4, 2010
Translation:
"Take my word for it. No, you can't see it."
Read that statement again. It says “we went looking” for a birth certificate, and that “we issued a statement.”
Notice that it DOES NOT SAY THEY EVER SAW A BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
The Democrat governor of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, said he was going to find a birth certificate, and later said there isn’t one.
Nothing can change the fact that the “birth certificate” put out by the White House is a crude forgery. This in itself is evidence that no real birth certificate exists.