So they placed the birth announcement KNOWING that he’d grow up to be President and not an Accountant or a Groundskeeper or something?
My Occam’s Razor is having a real tough time with that one.
No, they placed it to support the false information given to dept of health in order to secure the benefits of US citizenship for little Barry. That would be valuable even if he did grow up to be an accountant.
This really isn't all that difficult, as others have pointed out.
To clarify:
1. There is no name listed for the baby. Therefore, it's proof for who was born?
2. There is no place of birth listed for that nameless baby. It's proof the nameless baby was born where?
3. Hawaii's Territorial Law, Chapter 57 - "VITAL STATISTICS, I", shown beginning pg 23 of 29, (the law in effect in 1961) effectively allowed the parents (or grandparents or other relative) of baby's born anywhere in the world to be eligible to apply for a Hawaiian birth certificate. A mailed-in form signed by his mother or one of his grandparents (who forged the parent signature(s) in their absence) would have been enough to set up a birth record and a birth certificate at the Dept of Health. The Dept of Health would (presumably) then have automatically sent the names of the parents, their address as given on the mailed-in form , the gender of the child, and the date of birth to the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin. The address given for the parents in the newspaper announcements is actually, however, the August 1961 home address of Obama’s maternal grandparents Stanley and Madelyn Dunham [6085 Kalanianaole Highway], and not any of the known 1961 home addresses of Barack Obama, Sr. [625 11th Ave or 1482 Alencastre St].)
Grandparent(s) filled out the form, as per HI Territorial Law, Chapter 57, saying Barry was born in their (grandparents) home. They give their address as the "parents" address.
It's quite easy to see how it would be possible for him to be born outside the U.S., and his mother (or grandparents) signed the form stating it was an at home birth...the record generates a "b.c." on file which a few (unidentified) parts of which is noted in the paper.
Why would they do this?
Because U.S. citizenship is a very valuable thing to have in life. Clearly.
This, of course, says nothing of the fact that Barry was born owing allegiance to the crown of her majesty the Queen of England (assuming Sr. really is his legal birth father, inheriting his foreign father's foreign citizenship by birthright).
Maybe they just wanted him to be a US citizen.