I wouldn't rule out a recently printed newspaper page either David. Obama is connected or even prominent with some heavy hitting activism groups. Some of the tools used by activism groups are making newspaper articles as needed to further propaganda. I will be more satisfied with these sudden appearance of announcements when a microfich copy appears.
“...I will be more satisfied with these sudden appearance of announcements when a microfich copy appears.”
May I echo that sentiment?
There’s something just too darned cute and sweet about this statement:
“A research librarian at the Hawaii State Library just told me she will email me a copy of BOH’s birth announcement. She stated someone else had asked for that info recently and still had it readily available in her folder...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040486/replies?c=5134
Trust but verify?
Microfiche of those papers is readily available in many of not most West Coast public libraries. I haven't been out there recently or I would have looked myself. I assume the announcements get found--but at some point, I would look.
I will admit also that those announcements play into my assumption of what happened--after Obama and his mother returned from Kenya the week of his birth, they made some filings in Hawaii intended to support the argument that he was born in Honolulu. Vital Statistics, and ultimately the newspapers picked those filings up. What you would expect.