You have correctly identified the real issue. Obama was born in Hawaii - there are contemporaneous birth announcements from the Honolulu newspaper. He, however, used his foreign sounding name and father’s heritage to claim he was a foreign student. He, like Elizabeth Warren, lied to game the affirmative action system and reap the benefits of claiming special status. The lie persisted when he “wrote” his first book.
See my post at https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3620805/posts?page=28#28 and the follow-up posts I posted.
The birth announcements are a whole ‘nother story. Signs of forgery all over the place.
And actually, the very fact that wikileaks was the source of the first image of the Advertiser announcement, when Wikileaks claims to expose non-published work, should tell people something.
I had a librarian tell me that there is no way we can authenticate the microfilm copy in her library. And that would only be the case if somebody monkeyed with that specific microfilm copy.
No paper edition of that so-called announcement has ever been found. And...The microfilm image has signs of forgery.
By the way, our town newspaper prints out of town birth announcements all the time. It’s a common practice.