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Birtherism: Where it all began [Politico Admitted in 2011: Democrat Party]
Politico ^ | 4/22/11 | By BEN SMITH and BYRON TAU

Posted on 09/18/2015 7:38:46 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Just when it appeared that public interest was fading, celebrity developer Donald Trump has revived the theory that [B. Hussein Obama] was born overseas...

Where did this idea come from? Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there?

The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.

.....Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email...

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2008campaign; 2008election; 2016; 2016election; birtherism; birthers; election2016; hillarycampaign; hillaryclinton; newyork; trump; vote
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To: ponygirl

yes her siganture was indeed likely on a separate layer

there were so many bizarre anomalies on that pages its really hard to keep track of them without finding and opening the file again


21 posted on 09/18/2015 9:16:22 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Well, yes. Have to agree...


22 posted on 09/18/2015 9:30:42 PM PDT by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“...Taitz unveiled a purported Kenyan birth certificate in the summer of 2009. It was clearly a hoax – the Republic of Kenya didn’t exist when Obama was born...”

Okay, Then what were blacks known as in the contemporary vernacular of the day?

It sure wasn’t African, which is stated on the BC


23 posted on 09/18/2015 9:41:16 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“How much dna...”

After pissing on it, we might have to dig him up for the DNA.


24 posted on 09/18/2015 10:28:14 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Boonie
Why hasn’t someone like Cruz, Carson, Trump, or some of the few real conservatives pointed this out and got real LOUD about it????

The fact that Obama’s birth certificate is fake and Obama was ineligible to be President and that the Democrat Party defrauded the American people is common knowledge in Washington.

Why don't the Republicans make an issue of it? Because the don't want to tear the country apart, they are cowards , very bad things have happened to people who were seriously in a position to expose the fraud- including one of Bill Clinton's oldest and best friends.

Also, possibly because the the last generation of McConnell country club Quisling Republicans that Ronald Reagan purged from Party power structure entered into a consent decree to settle a bogus law suit the Democrats filed against them in which they agreed to never pursue a claim of voter fraud against the Democrat Party

It should be common knowledge to the rest of America as well but

25 posted on 09/18/2015 10:45:32 PM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Miller)
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To: rdcbn

“Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.”......

Makes no difference who started this, the answer still remains unanswered along with, “Is he a muzzie or not?”.


26 posted on 09/19/2015 5:51:40 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

1) Islam encourages the practice of taqqiya, especially in cases where an adherent has as much influence as a head of state. Obama not admitting he’s Muslim tells us nothing.

2) Americans have always been allowed to self-identify their religion outside of their narrow religious communities. You are the religion you claim to be, at least for public purposes. What others consider you is irrelevant for most public purposes. Others calling Obama a Muslim also tells us nothing because of the political charged atmosphere. A MSM that allows a man to call himself a woman isn’t going to quibble.

3) Obama’s status as a Muslim does not change his effect on the nation one bit.


27 posted on 09/19/2015 6:18:04 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Texas Eagle

The story is from 2011


28 posted on 09/19/2015 6:20:21 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: arthurus

The Clintons would DO a thing like THAT?....


29 posted on 09/19/2015 7:41:08 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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