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President Barack Obama Makes Birth Certificate Joke on Kenya Trip
NBC News ^ | 07/25/2015 | ELIZABETH CHUCK

Posted on 07/25/2015 5:18:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

If you can't beat members of the "birther" movement, join 'em.

That's the approach President Barack Obama took on Saturday night in Kenya, his father's homeland, when he made a wisecrack about his birthplace — which suspicious critics have harped on for years.

"Some of my critics back home might be suggesting I'm here to look for my birth certificate," Obama said while making a toast at a state dinner hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta. "That's not the case."

In 2011, Obama made his birth certificate public after so-called birthers questioned his eligibility to be president, claiming he was not a U.S. citizen. The certificate lists Honolulu, Hawaii, as his place of birth.

But the controversy persisted, with birthers insisting the detailed birth certificate was a fake, and that the president was in fact born in Kenya. The issue resurfaced earlier this week when outspoken Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio told CNN he still believes the birth certificate was forged.

Obama's quip during the Kenyan state dinner was met with laughs.

His visit to Kenya marks the first time a sitting U.S. president has traveled to the East African nation, and fulfilled a wish of many Kenyans, who see him as one of their own. On Friday evening, Obama reconnected with Kenyan family, some of whom were present at Saturday night's dinner.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; kenya; naturalborncitizen; obama
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1 posted on 07/25/2015 5:18:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This assclown’s whole presidency is a joke.


2 posted on 07/25/2015 5:22:05 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Try the veal, folks, I’ll be here all week!”


3 posted on 07/25/2015 5:30:07 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: SeekAndFind

If he was born in Kenya what’s with the fuss over the Hawaiian BC?


4 posted on 07/25/2015 5:32:26 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Help Me Dad" Kathryn Steinle shot and killed by a five-time deported illegal.)
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To: Veggie Todd

He truly doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about his reputation, his legacy, the consequences of his anti Constitution behavior. This is the worst president we’ve ever had. And the remaining time till he’s out is likely going to be one for the books.


5 posted on 07/25/2015 5:38:53 PM PDT by LouAvul (Venal and evil people are destroying the world you live in.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Usurper thinks it’s real funny to keep rubbing it in our faces that he’s ineligible and our entire political and judicial institutions and everyone in them stood by and let him usurp the office on

Usurpation Day January 20, 2009

The day the Republic died.


6 posted on 07/25/2015 5:48:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.


7 posted on 07/25/2015 5:51:18 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Some of my critics back home might be suggesting I'm here to look for my birth certificate."

Yeah, like OJ kept looking for the real killer.

8 posted on 07/25/2015 5:52:27 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: SeekAndFind

I still believe the issue of Obama’s birth hinges on the possible facts that he LIED on his applications to universities .. saying he was born in Kenya .. thus allowing him to get financial assistance to attend college.

And .. I believe this because Obama will not release his school records or his grades.

Nobody has to agree with me .. don’t give a rip.


9 posted on 07/25/2015 5:55:54 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: The Final Harvest

Sounds right to me. However, I think his real father is frank marshall davis.


10 posted on 07/25/2015 5:58:42 PM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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To: SeekAndFind

11 posted on 07/25/2015 6:16:24 PM PDT by Brandonmark (There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: SeekAndFind

He likely is enjoying playing a cat and mouse game and therefore is going to get his BC while there. Oh how much fun it is to fool the people with a joke.


12 posted on 07/25/2015 6:56:55 PM PDT by Bellflower (It's not that there isn't any evidence of God, it's that everything is evidence of God.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Elizabeth Chuck - (D-NBC News):


13 posted on 07/25/2015 7:05:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: The Final Harvest

The press dare not demand any release of the current candidates school records If they do, they should refuse to release until they hound BO into releasing his. The press is a joke.


14 posted on 07/25/2015 8:02:20 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: SeekAndFind

SO DID HE TAKE THE WIFE AND KIDS ALONG???

HAVE NOT SEEN ANY PHOTO’S OF THEM...

AND HE BOARDED THE PLANE ALONE...

BUT ONE NEWS OUTLET SAID THE FAMILY WENT...

AND HIS ‘SECURITY’ IS COSTING ONE BILLION DOLLARS...SUCH BULL SHIT...


15 posted on 07/25/2015 8:47:36 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: The Final Harvest

Don’t forget that his “book” he was peddling said he was born in Kenya. Then they found some secretary who said she typed it and it was a typo. Misspelling “Kenya” would be a typo. Listing Kenya as his birthplace instead of Hawaii would be flat out lie if it wasn’t true.


16 posted on 07/25/2015 8:51:49 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Since you're so much smarter than me, don't waste your time insulting me. I won't understand it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.


17 posted on 07/25/2015 9:14:37 PM PDT by Gritty (A citizenry that votes for an asshole is less deluded than one that votes for a messiah-Mark Steyn)
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To: The Final Harvest

If he was a foreign student he would have needed an F-1 foreign student visa. No one can study in the U.S. as a foreigner without being allowed into the country on a visa.
Obama’s father’s passport and student visa records were released by a Freedom of Information Act application.


18 posted on 07/25/2015 9:24:32 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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AND HIS ‘SECURITY’ IS COSTING ONE BILLION DOLLARS...SUCH BULL SHIT...

Meanwhile, OButtSlam the Muslim is demanding that the Merkun peasants give up their guns.

STFU, you Commie Muslim.

19 posted on 07/25/2015 9:44:48 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: SeekAndFind

GOD he is such a piece of shit.


20 posted on 07/25/2015 9:49:20 PM PDT by Marathoner (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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