Hawaii’s Governor Takes On ‘Birthers’

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

New York Times

HONOLULU — Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, who befriendedPresident Obama’s parents when they were university students here, has been in office for less than three weeks. But he is so incensed over “birthers” — the conspiracy theorists who assert that Mr. Obama was born in Kenya and was thus not eligible to become president — that he is seeking ways to change state policy to allow him to release additional proof that the president was born in Honolulu in 1961.