Barack Obama/birth certificate

Overview

Obama's opponents have been demanding that Obama produce his birth certificate in order to prove his legal qualification to be president, and claiming that he has been refusing to do so. They further claim that he would only do this if he was not in fact born in the US.

The subject of his birthplace is actually irrelevant; his mother was a native-born American, so he is qualified.

Nonetheless, the following birth certificate was obtained from his birth hospital, showing that he was born in Hawaii: