I was reading today in the news that Ancestery.com had genealogist that concluded that Barack Obama and Sarah Palin shared a common ancestor. Now it just struck me that Hawaii Dept of Health has not released Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate to anyone who has requested it. So now that Sarah Palin has a common ancestor she should be able to aquire his vital records according to HRS 338-18 (b)(5) which is this: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrs2008/Vol06_Ch0321-0344/HRS0338/HRS_0338-0018.htm §338-18 Disclosure of records. (a) To protect the integrity of vital statistics records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration...