[John Valentine]

Of course, but by how much?

If Obama were born at Kapiolani Hospital, as would most likely have been the case for anyone in the University of Hawaii community in 1961, it should be failrly easy to determine the normal lag between birth and registration.

If this particular birth were to have been registered, say, a week later than normal, with no hospital indicated (home birth), and no attending physican’s signature, and AFTER Ann Dunham was repoerted to have shown up at her childhood friend’s home in Mercer Island, WA asking for instructions on diaper changing, it would very strongly indicate to me that Obama was NOT born in Hawaii.

Would it not?

[theymakemesick]

I don't know the details of the statements you mentioned so am unable to comment on them but if all of those things are true, then yes, it would seem to indicate that he was not born in Hawaii. I was just stating that a lag of several days between "birth" and "registration" would not surprise me in 1961. FWIW, Aug. 4, 1961 was a Friday and the alleged "state registration" occured the next Tuesday.

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