Since 2008, an ongoing controversy has raged as to whether President Barack Obama was actually born in Hawaii as claimed. Barack Obama has rejected all demands for the public release of his original Hawaiian birth certificate, which would presumably include the actual hospital that performed the delivery and the name of the attending physician at the birth.

The U.S. Constitution requires that no one can be sworn into office as President of the United States without being a "natural born" citizen.

Article. II. Section 1: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

The Senate approved Senate Resolution 511 on 4/30/2008, recognizing that Presidential candidate John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution. The Senate was silent with regard to candidate Barack Obama's "natural born" status.

Since only citizens who are "natural born" Americans are eligible for election to the presidency, if Barack Obama was born outside of the United States, he cannot constitutionally hold the office to which he was elected in 2008. This status is only established at birth, and can never be won or gained.

The Obama campaign posted an online, computer-generated document, a Certification of Live Birth (COLB), which it offered as a birth record. The truth is, this document could have been created recently by submission of sworn statements, even if no document from 1961 existed. This COLB is not a standard birth certificate. It lacks common, standard identifiers such as a hospital name and an attending physician signature.

Adding to the confusion, the Obama campaign provided two different hospital names at one time- Queen's and Kapiolani. NO ONE has ever vouched for the fact that Obama was born in Hawaii in August 1961. No doctor, nurse, hospital administrator, friends, or neighbors. However, since the beginning of 2009 there seems to have been a change from Queen's Hospital to Kapiolani as the place of birth. The Washingon Post and Wikipedia (presumably at the suggestion or with the approval of people associated with Barack Obama) now claim that he was born in Kapiolani Hospital, even though Kapiolani Hospital refuses to confirm or deny the truth of this statement or to provide a copy of a hospital birth certificate or record.

However, Obama's paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, stated that Obama was born in Kenya. (affidavit) http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-Obama-Kweli-Shuhubia-Affidavit

A Kenyan, an Anabaptist Minister. testified that a civil registrar affirmed Obama's birth at Coast Province Hospital in Mombosa, Kenya. (affidavit) http://www.scribd.com/doc/18010847/Berg-v-Obama-Kweli-Shuhubia-Affidavit

“Obama described his birth at Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961...”

Kenya's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Ogego, affirmed Obama's birth in Kenya in a November 2008 radio interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4GX3Otf14

A United Press International report from Nov. 4, 2008 states: “Obama described his birth at Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii Aug. 4, 1961...”

Update: Now UPI scrubbed the story (without explicit notice of update via the following screen capture (confirmed via Google’s cache).
Update: The previous link for the Google cache of the below has similarly been changed. (copy of screen shot from WorldNetDaily):

The MyBarackObama.com campaign website cites his birthplace as Queen’s Medical Center.
Extract: “Barack Hussein OBAMA was born on 4 August 1961 at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii...”