JISHOU, HUNAN — Along with Moon landing deniers, the USA is also “blessed” with people called “birthers,” who deny the obvious fact that President Barack Hussein Obama was born a US citizen.
Trying to summarize their arguments is nigh impossible for anyone possessing a logical mind, but basically they believe Obama is either Kenyan or Indonesian, was adopted, attended school under a different name, has dual British/American citizenship, and ultimately does not meet the Constitutional requirement of being a natural-born citizen of the USA.
They call him the “usurper,” among other less savory epithets.
Obama released to the public a copy of his Hawai’i birth certificate, but the birthers still find fault with it, saying it is a “short form,” not a “long form,” has been forged or doctored, or somehow illicit. Insufficient proof, they say.
Birth announcements in the Honolulu newspapers also seem to be unconvincing to the birthers.
Obama’s parents have both died. The doctor who delivered him died last year at age 98. But in all the manufactroversy about Obama’s birthplace, no one seems to refer to this article from the Buffalo (NY) News. Someone on The Daily Kos mentioned it today.
The News interviewed one of Obama’s teachers, who remembers the very day the president was born.
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