Would any other U.S. president born in Hawaii face birth certificate challenges?

Although President Obama has a valid certificate of live birth and notices were published in two newspapers after his parturition at Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, there is still a controversy surrounding his citizenship.

And even though Honolulu Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo has confirmed that Obama's name is found in its alphabetical list of births available for public view, some still want to deny Obama was born in the U.S.

Do you really think Obama's parents, who lived on Kalanlanaole Highway in Honolulu, were savvy enough to convince the Advisor and Star Bulletin to fake a birth announcement in 1961 because they perceived one day their bi-racial son would become president of the United States?

Or entertain this conspiracy theory: maybe someone had Obama's grandmother smothered on the eve of his election so she couldn't tell the truth about his birth...that really sounds crazy, doesn't it? Would make a great screenplay...

One wonders if anyone else elected president born in Hawaii would meet such challenges. And what about other states admitted to the union in the 20th century, like Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma?

And what about presidents elected from the once rebel states which seceded before and during the Civil War and were later readmitted to the Union? By the way, how were they readmitted, and how do we prove that the former confederate states are a part of the United States?

If some are still stewing over the validity of Obama's birth certificate, let them prove that the states they represent are truly "American." Having to provide this would be ludicrous and a waste of time as is the railing about Obama supposedly growing up in Kenya. He is "our" president and will remain so until the voters decide otherwise.

The only fodder this makes is great media sensationalism!

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