[edge919]

There's a big problem with Monika's story. The baby wasn't recognizably "black" when it was born. According to SAD's good friend Susan Blake, the baby was very pink when she saw it and changed its poopy diapers in 1961 (evidently SAD had no clue after several days of how to change a diaper??). This baby could have easily been mistaken for Hawaiian, Japanese, Indonesia, white, etc. And of course, Monika's memories are mostly manufactured when the only she truly knows about him was him time growing up:

When President Obama became a candidate in 2008, Monika noticed his birth date and hospital in an article and remembered that day in the nursery. Since then more memories of Obama growing up has come back to Danielsson.

"The memories come rushing back to me. Obama was very into sport and my son was good at tennis, although Obama was more into basketball," she said.

Second, the Swedish story says, ""Stig, who no longer has his original birth certificate, can use this document for any court proceedings and any legal purposes", CNN said in a statement." Now consider that CNN could track down Stig's mother who wasn't going by the same last name, but they are completely incurious as to why Obama has NEVER used his alleged birth document in ANY court proceedings or for ANY legal purposes. Hmmm...Stig, who no longer has his original birth certificate, can use this document for any court proceedings and any legal purposes

[butterdezillion]

BUT if Stig used that short-form at the Department of Hawaiian HOme Lands, he would also have to spend extra money to get the REST of the “contents of his birth certificate” verified by the HDOH. The HDOH’s current policy costs people extra money at the DHHL. Sure, the short-form CAN be used at the DHHL, but it is not legally sufficient by itself. A person has to use a combination of a $10 short-form and a $5 verification in order to legally fulfill the DHHL’s requirements for certification of the “contents” of their birth certificate (which HRS 338-13 requires the HDOH to show upon request).

[Nero Germanicus]

My guess is that CNN was referring to what it says on every Hawaii short form COLB: “This copy serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding.”
There are states whose short forms don’t meet the federal guidelines for issuance of a passport. Hawaii’s short form is not one of those states.
As for the skin color of babies at birth, I have no idea. I don’t know how old he was in that earliest baby picture that has been released.
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/wp-content/uploads/Obama-Baby.jpg
Here’s that bizarre photo of the English “twins” at birth where one was white and the other black:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.parentdish.co.uk/media/2010/09/black-and-white-twins-newborn-crop.jpg