| First of all, Obama was and still is a Socialist. If he wishes to use the term "Progressive," it means the same damn thing! 
The New Party was a radical left organization, established in 1992, to amalgamate far left groups and push the United States into socialism by forcing the Democratic Party to the left. It was an attempt to regroup the forces on the left in a new strategy to take power, burrowing from within. The party only lasted until 1998, when its strategy of “fusion” failed to withstand a Supreme Court ruling. But dissolving the party didn’t stop the membership, including Barack Obama, from continuing to move the Democrats leftward with spectacular success. (American Thinker, October 08, 2008).
Second of all, likely a majority of Tea Party Conservatives do NOT doubt Obama’s status as a US Citizen via his mother (some argue that point as well). It’s his status as a NATURAL BORN Citizen that’s in question, as required per Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the US Constitution. The office of POTUS is the ONLY office that has such a requirement, because there are NO Internal "Checks and Balances" in the Executive Branch.
And the most notable thing about this interview is that Obama himself continues to hinge the argument on him being a CITIZEN versus a NATURAL BORN Citizen.
More and more it’s obvious that seemingly accidental gaffs from the Constitutional Law Professor are actually Alinsky-type purposeful misdirection from what could truly bring his presidency down. 
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children. 
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