BIRTHPLACE OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT

Hi All,
There is a controversy boiling in certain circles, as well as on this BLOG as to PE Barack Obama's place of birth:


The following extract from a Washington Post article may prove interesting if not dispositive:

REF: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082301620_pf.html

"On weekday mornings as a teenager, Barry Obama left his grandparents' apartment on the 10th floor of the 12-story high-rise at 1617 S. Beretania, a mile and a half above Waikiki Beach, and walked up Punahou Street in the shadows of capacious banyan trees and date palms. Before crossing the overpass above the H1 freeway, where traffic zoomed east to body-surfing beaches or west to the airport and Pearl Harbor, he passed Kapiolani Medical Center, walking below the hospital room where he was born on Aug. 4, 1961. Two blocks farther along, at the intersection with Wilder, he could look left toward the small apartment on Poki where he had spent a few years with his little sister, Maya, and his mother, Ann, back when she was getting her master's degree at the University of Hawaii before she left again for Indonesia. Soon enough he was at the lower edge of Punahou School, the gracefully sloping private campus where he studied some and played basketball more".

Additionally, it is claimed that the Obama Campaign actually released a copy of his Birth Certificate:

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn227/Polarik/BO_Birth_Certificate.jpg

Of course, conspiracy theorists will claim that it is a forgery; clearly a possibility.

Reference also, the following article from SNOPES may prove interesting:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

Finally there are those who say that Hawaii was still a territory not a State when Obama was born in 1961; not so folks, the date that Hawaii became a State was August 21, 1959.

As is alway the case in america:

"You pays your money and you takes your choice"

I for one believe that the PE meets the requirement set in the constitution and his election should not be questioned.

Dave Israel