It was not a birth certificate, it was a certificate of live birth.
You do not need to be born in Hawaii to be issued a COLB.
For that matter, if you WERE born in Hawaii and therefore HAD a birth certificate, WHY would you request a COLB?
Could it be my birth certificate is a fake? My gosh, that is devastating news...
” For that matter, if you WERE born in Hawaii and therefore HAD a birth certificate,
WHY would you request a COLB? “
Bingo.
Obama wrote specifically about his birth certificate in Dreams From My Father.
“I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms,
when I was in high school,”
It’s also interesting that in Dreams, Obama goes on and on and on in the most boring detail possible about his life’s minutiae.
Things like - I clearly remember that I wore a red shirt and blue sneakers
after having French toast for breakfast when I went with Gramps to the park on May 5.
Toot wore a yellow apron as she smoked her fifth cigarette of the day as she stood by the sink washing the plastic pink breakfast dishes....
But, not a whisper about where he was born,
the hospital, the doctor,
family stories about his mother’s long labor, etc.
And the book is overflowing with family stories and lore.
The glaring absence of anything about his birth makes it all the more noticeable.