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In order to see what happens when someone born in Hawaii requests a birth certificate, CNN asked a current resident of the state -- Stig Waidelich -- if he could get a copy of the document. Waidelich was born just hours after Obama in August 1961. Like Obama, Waidelich's birth was announced at the time in the Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper.

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STIG WAIDELICH: I wish that this Stig Waidelich would post his short form birth certificate on the internet, the one that CNN paid $7 for, so that we could compare it to Obama'a short form certificate that we see on Obama's Fight the Smears site and the one that we see on FactCheck's site

Questions I would like to ask him:

What hospital was he born in?

Who was his doctor? Maybe the doctor remembers Obama.

If his parents are still living and he was born at Kapiolani Hospital, do his parents remember anything about Obama being born in the hospital back in Aug. 1961?

1. So if anyone out there knows this Stig Waidelich, could you talk him into displaying his short form birth certificate on the internet so that we can examine it and compare it to Obama's short form that we see at Obama's Fight the Smears site? Thanks.

2. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER: I'm sorry CNN reporterTuchman---I have had great respect for Tuchman's reports over the years--- but you made a reporting mistake: You showed Obama's birth announcement in the newspaper, an announcement that did NOT list the birth hospital.

3. But then you showed a picture of Kapiolani Hospital, when you know for a fact that Obama's birth hospital is not listed in the birth announcement.

4. Why did you do that? Did you think we were stupid?

5. Again, how do you know that Obama was born in Kapiolani Hospital, when a hospital name is not listed for anyone in the birth announcements?

6. Could you please publicly correct your error? Thanks.

7. DEAR TUCHMAN: If the Nordyke twins were born in Kapiolani hospital just a day after Obama, then why was the Nordyke twins birth announcement in the papers several days after Obama's birth announcement, if indeed Obama was born in Kapiolani Hospital like the twins?

8, NOTE TO TUCHMAN: The Nordyke twins' long form birth certificate can be found at several places on the internet. Many people refer to the Nordyke twins' long form birth certificates when they want to cite a Hawaii long form birth certificate from back in Aug. 1961.