Re: Mary Altmann's Dec. 26 letter, "Birth certificate suspect":
Altmann is not a Republican or racist. She just needs to stop relying on the Internet for her information.
Does she really think Barack Obama wasn't born in Hawaii just because a Web site questions it? I am also not a Republican or racist, but I gather my facts from reliable sources. I'm pretty confident John McCain would have mentioned Obama's ineligibility to run for president pretty early in the campaign if he wasn't born in the United States. In fact, you can be a naturalized citizen (not born in this country) and still run for president.
Last time I checked my facts, Hawaii is in fact part of the United States and has been since 1959. So, when Obama was born in 1961, Hawaii had been a state for two years! I was able to find that information out without the help of the Internet.
-- Mary Diamond, Ventura