I thought the press all swooned over the ‘Kenya-born senator’ when he spoke at the Democrat convention in 2004. But they would have been so easy to dig up in 2008 if that were the case.
Well, there were several mentions of Obama being "Kenyan-born" in English language African based newspapers prior to 2008, but I don't recall any such articles in American newspapers.
But there were several other claims of Obama's birth in Kenya or elsewhere abroad before, during, and after Obama's first presidential run. Many of these claims come from Kenyans themselves. These include Obama's grandmother, the Kenyan ambassador to the US, and at least three Kenyan parliamentarians.
In the United States, claims of Obama's birth abroad were stated by none other than Michelle Obama, who perhaps had a Freudian slip during a meeting with a group of delegates at the 2008 Democrat National Convention.
Prior to that, there were doubts about Obama's birthplace expressed by several Clinton advisers during the 2008 primary season.
There was also a remarkable post here on FR by a FReeper who had been stationed on Hawaii as a Marine, and met and had a discussion with a teenage Obama there. When the then-Marine mentioned to Obama that he had previously been stationed at Mombasa, Kenya, Obama replied that he knew about Mombasa because he himself had been born there!
Now, the Clinton campaign and its MSM toadies, sensing the bottom to be dropping out, is going bonkers calling Trump and anyone who doubts or doubted that Obama was born in the US a "racist" "birther "conspiracy theorist," even though there is some credible evidence for the proposition that Obama may have been born in Kenya or elsewhere abroad. This despite the fact that the 2008 Clinton campaign contained people within it or close to it, who expressed the same doubts. Let's hope that this duplicitous smear job justly backfires on the 'Rats and the MSM!!!