[pa mom]

Of course not. But unless his grandparents were thinking in terms of his presidential eligibility in 1961, it makes no sense for them to lie about his place of birth in a newspaper announcement.

[Boardwalk]

His grandparents, especially the white typical ones, may have just wanted their grandson to be a US citizen with all the benefits inherent.

[Chief Engineer]

The birth announcement has no place of birth listed. Babies could be registered in HI and given a birth certificate for the state even if they were not born in the state! When Ann became pregnant her father was so angry that he threatened to have Sr’s student visa pulled and have him kicked out of the country! Obama’s father wrote a long scathing letter saying how he didn’t want the Obama bloodline sullied by a white woman! On top of that we also have Frank Davis Marshall writing of “...a Kenyan student who split, leaving behind two pregnant blondes...” The true story may never be known as the adults in the know are now dead but Obama should sign a consent for the release of his long form birth certificate instead of standing behind a phalanx of lawyers. I actually believe that Ann was sent away as was often the case back in that time and that her mother registered the birth which generated the birth announcement. How many people actually pay attention to birth announcements in a paper except for those involved? Also where are the pictures of the infant?

[itsahoot]

Of course not. But unless his grandparents were thinking in terms of his presidential eligibility in 1961, it makes no sense for them to lie about his place of birth in a newspaper announcement.

Not president, but merely being an US citizen has benefits, and I am sure they recognized that fact.

Besides Communist are good at 100 year plans, or don't you remember those?

[Flamenco Lady]

It doesn’t state his place of birth in the announcement that was in the paper.

[danamco]

Of course not. But unless his grandparents were thinking in terms of his presidential eligibility in 1961, it makes no sense for them to lie about his place of birth in a newspaper announcement.

Did it really say that???

[danamco]

http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?page_id=284

[danamco]

That will get your head spinning!!!

[El Gato]

it makes no sense for them to lie about his place of birth in a newspaper announcement.

The newspaper announcements do not have place of birth, only parents residence. They don't even have the child's name. But the same are true for all the other birth announcements in those two newspapers. (It's not clear to me that they aren't different versions of the same paper, as was often the case. It was in my home town, the morning and evening papers had different names, but were, really from the same publisher, although they had once been separate. Now they are only one paper, with a hyphenated name, and that's far from the only town/city that happened in.