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For me, he was almost certainly born in Hawaii. I am as convinced of that as much as I am convinced that George W Bush was born in Connecticut. I recognize that it is possible that they were both born in Finland, but I have no persuasive evidence that either of them were born in Finland. I have no reason to challenge either of them when they state where they were born.

For the vast majority of people, it really is that simple. In order for a person to conclude otherwise requires that that person desperately want to believe otherwise for some extraneous reason. And most of us know what the extraneous reason is - there are people who didn't want to accept the results of the election of 2008 and they felt a need to find a way to alter the results of that election. We understand why some people believed that nonsense. That's as obvious as the birthplace of these presidents.

And, a lot of us feel badly that some people took money from other people while pretending to chase that unicorn. That wasn't fair.