I don't know if two years is "way before", but it was before.
You got me nervous there. Hawaii hasn't been a state for 50 years yet. You got me wondering just how young Obama was. (Still older than I am.)
Yeah, I just realized that.
Hawaii became a state when I was 17 (now 66) and I had ready somewhere that Obama was 40 (give or take a year or two).
Thinking this thru, I suspect that McCain is going to lose anyway. Maybe we would be better off if the Supreme Court ruled that you have to be born in one of the 50 states in order to be eligible. That would eliminate a lot of Dems.