He was a community organizer, right?? All he had to was find some volunteers with photoshop skills or even some advanced forgery techniques. Can’t be too hard in a city like Chicago. Those newspaper announcements didn’t show up until skeptics started posting questions as to whether such announcements exist ... and I have to take some credit, because Lori Starfelt seemed to take a suggestion I made about contacting the state library in Hawaii.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2040486/posts?page=8963#8963
the best explanation I’ve heard so far...