I personally went to the library in Hilo, HI and copied the announcement from the microfiche reader. Others have done the same from the microfiche copies of the Advertiser kept in other Hawaii libraries. The announcment is real.
But Barack Obama is very pleased to see that you are continuing your fine work on his behalf—even if you don’t realize what you are doing.
Fake drivers licenses and passports turn up every day.And yet it's impossible for some error to have been made...somewhere....or for one or two...or ten...people to have been slipped $5 each for a "favor".I wonder if a newspaper's birth announcements have ever contained an error or been the result of dishonesty.
The gold standard here is the original birth record which,assuming one exists,would be sitting in a big, dusty book....probably somewhere in Honolulu.That record would look,even to the untrained eye,to be 47 years old...as opposed to 6 months old.The paper will have yellowed and they typed characters on it will look very old fashioned...given that it was done with a Smith Corona made in 1960.
You get my drift? To HELL with newspaper birth announcements.Show me...or members of the press...the ORIGINAL...YELLOWED-WITH-AGE....document that some doctor signed 47 years ago.Until I see that,I'm *very* suspicious.After I see it...I have egg on my face.
Really? Let’s see your copy.
I’m proud he is pleased.
So someone fed the papers this announcement. It wasn’t the hospital, obviously, since no mention of the hospital is in the announcement. And Stanley Ann was not Mrs. Barack Obama at the time of the birth either.
Show me.