the costs.
Even without viewing a birth certificate (original or otherwise), anyone can easily find multiple lines of evidence indicating Obama meets the constitutional requirements. One has, for example, the announcements of his 4 August 1961 birth from both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin, as well as statements from the Hawaiian health director and Republican governor Lingle that the birth records are in order. We know he has a US passport, since he has visited Kenya several times, and that passport could only have been obtained if he were born a citizen or a noncitizen national or naturalized; however the State Department categorized him should be very easy to determine, if necessary, since the passport contains the date and place of birth determined by the State Department. Thus, a number of people at the State Department or at USCIS would know if he were a noncitizen national or had been naturalized. And if his passport file shed some damning light on the subject, that would be public by now, since a number of people viewed it without authorization. He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996; under the Illinois Constitution Art IV Sec 2(c), this office (which he held nearly eight years, including a re-election) requires US citizenship. He ran for the US House in 2000; under the US Constitution, Art I Sec 2 par 2 this office requires citizenship. He was elected to the Senate in 2004; under the US Constitution, Art I Sec 3 par 3, this office (which he held nearly four years) require citizenship. So the Illinois and US Senates obviously consider him a citizen: these institutions contain a number of people opposed to his political views. Finally, he was sworn as President before his political friends and foes alike, by the highest judicial officer, who is from the opposite party. In short, for Obama to be a foreign national, a noncitizen national, or a naturalized citizen would have required a conspiracy of gigantic sweep across the political spectrum and over many years
Obama's birth announcements
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/... Officials verify birth certificate of Obama
Hawaii's health director steps in after numerous requests for the document
By Star-Bulletin Staff and News Services
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinew... Obama’s Kenyan Roots
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: February 24, 2008
... He has visited Kenya three times ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/opinion/... Two Fired for Viewing Obama Passport File
State Department Investigating Whether Contractors Broke Law
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 21, 2008; Page A03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte... Constitution of the State of Illinois
http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lrb/conent.... United States Constitution
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#A... 
