NPR just announced that the White House is releasing the long form of Pres. Obama’s birth certificate, but will this really help? The doubters will still call it a fake:
This is all related, of course, to the so-called birthers movement that has been questioning — even though state officials in Hawaii long ago presented evidence of the president’s birth there in 1961 — whether Obama really was born in the U.S., as the Constitution requires of presidents.
There’s a link to a copy of the certificate if you’re interested in studying the authenticity.
Salon’s Justin Elliott concludes the birthers aren’t going anywhere.
Sarah Palin suggesed (?) that Obama released his birth certificate to overshadow Ben Bernanke’s press conference.
(The Borowitz Report) – In a stunning announcement that took even political insiders by surprise, President Barack Obama revealed today that he ran for President of Kenya in 2005 but was disqualified when a birth certificate surfaced showing he was born in the United States.
At a press conference at the White House, Mr. Obama spoke for the first time about his little-known unsuccessful foray into Kenyan politics: “Like every American boy or girl, I grew up with the dream of someday becoming President of Kenya.” …
… “I felt strongly that the people of Kenya deserved the truth,” Mr. Ogongo said. “We were not about to elect a President of Kenya who was really a secret Hawaiian.”
I remember the Paris Peace talks couldn’t start because of the shape of the table. Maybe this birther issue was what kept our leaders from working together on economic problems.
From the Weekly Standard in 2004, reporting on an effort to allow the foreign born to serve as president:
On July 10, 2003, Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took action against what he calls “an anachronism that is decidedly un-American.” He introduced a bill that would allow a person who has been a U.S. citizen for 20 years and a resident for 14 years to run for president.