Originally Posted by cambaby

1. What kind of race is "African"? LOL
2. Was he born in a manger like Jesus, because there is no hospital name listed.
3. Did a midwife deliver him, because there is no physician listed either.
4. I say "shopped" because it looks like no other birth certificate Ive ever seen.

Originally Posted by NaughtyVisions

Again from http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2...n_the_usa.html

Update, August 26: We received responses to some of our questions from the Hawaii Department of Health. They couldn't tell us anything about their security paper, but they did answer another frequently-raised question: why is Obama's father's race listed as "African"? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father's race and mother's race are supplied by the parents, and that "we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be." We consider it reasonable to believe that Barack Obama, Sr., would have thought of and reported himself as "African." It's certainly not the slam dunk some readers have made it out to be.

When we asked about the security borders, which look different from some other examples of Hawaii certifications of live birth, Kurt said "The borders are generated each time a certified copy is printed. A citation located on the bottom left hand corner of the certificate indicates which date the form was revised." He also confirmed that the information in the short form birth certificate is sufficient to prove citizenship for "all reasonable purposes."