[MileHi]

...it was embarrassing to watch otherwise intelligent people put forth the absurd conspiracy theory that a mixed-race couple in the Jim Crow era would contrive to put their son's birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper to cover-up the actual circumstances of his birth because they wanted him to be president four decades later.

What an absurd straw man. It would be enough that they did exactly that because they merely wanted him to have the advantage of American citizenship.

[wagglebee]

It would be enough that they did exactly that because they merely wanted him to have the advantage of American citizenship.

There was NEVER a question of his mother's citizenship.