The birth cetificate is an issue for me only because Barry is a politician has the least connection with the ordinary American of any I can think of. Even if he was born on Ohahu, he spent his childhood living in a foreign country with a mother who has few connections with the United States and married a foreigner. When he returned—without his mother— he was raised by his radical minded -grandparents on an island 2500 miles from the mainland in what remains, at least culturally, a quasi- colony. He went to school in New York City and law school at Harvard. He lived in Chicago and married an African-American girl, which is his major mainstream American connection. So far as I know, he has not traveled extensively in the United States, except when campaigning. He seems to me deracinated, and only loosely rooted in American society.