Ben Smith /Politico misleads about Obama birth certificate

Ben Smith of the Politico offers the blog post "Thank you for your e-mails, cont'd" (link):

The baseless Obama citizenship rumor is back, based on an attempt by its purveyors request that the Supreme Court get to the bottom of the case.

The "rumor" isn't "baseless", despite what Ben Smith would have you believe: the fact remains that Obama simply has not proven where exactly he was born. In the paragraph above, Smith links to the October 31, 2008 article he wrote "Cover this! Inside the nastiest ’08 rumors" (link). In addition to mocking Obama's opponents, Smith says:

...there's lots of evidence that Obama was born in the United States, and none that he wasn't. The campaign handed over an official copy of his short-form birth certificate - the standard document produced by the Hawaii Department of Health - to Factcheck.org. And Poliltico has confirmed the authenticity of a contemporaneous announcement of his birth in the Honolulu Advertiser.

How do we know it was "official"? Are the Obama-friendly FactCheck document experts as well? And, the announcement only listed the address of Obama's parents and did not list where he was born.

Politics · Thu, 12/04/2008 - 14:42 · · Importance: 4