[El Gato]

Do you really think that his parents had him in Africa and then had the fore site to know that he would some day run for President, so they had an announcement of his birth published in an Hawaiian newspaper, to make it look like he was born there?

The announcements came from the state Health Statistics folks. Thus when the application for the Certificate of Birth, whichever form of birth record that is on file even now, the details would have been forwarded to the papers.

Too bad their practice didn't include the name of the hospital, as many do.

In the event that he was not born in Hawaii, they would not have been thinking about future eligibility for President, just citizenship, when whoever filed those papers (Mom or Grandma most likely) did so.

[TCH]

“...Too bad their practice didn’t include the name of the hospital, as many do. ...”

Or the name of the attending physician.

[curiosity]

In the event that he was not born in Hawaii, they would not have been thinking about future eligibility for President,

I can't believe the idiocy I am seeing on this birther threads.

Even if Obama had been born in Kenya (he wasn't), he still would have been a citizen by virtue of his mother being a citizen and would have had access to all the same welfare benefits as if he had been born in Hawaii.