[Red Steel]

The Honolulu papers, which only make birth announcements based on department of health statistics, announced he was born there

Now, this has been repeated without proof. You're telling us no one can call in a birth announcement back in 1961 to newspapers and they would ignore it. I doubt it.

Furthermore, the birth announcement does not say where Jr. was born.

[curiosity]

Now, this has been repeated without proof. You're telling us no one can call in a birth announcement back in 1961 to newspapers and they would ignore it. I doubt it.

That's what the papers say:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081109/NEWS01/811090361/-1/specialobama08