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It’s Official: Obama “Born in the U.S.A.”

Of all the nutty rumors, baseless conspiracy theories and sheer disinformation that we’ve dealt with at FactCheck.org during campaign 2008, perhaps the goofiest is the claim that Barack Obama is not a “natural-born citizen” and therefore not eligible to be president under the constitution. This claim was first advanced by diehard Hillary Clinton supporters as her campaign for the party’s nomination faded, and has enjoyed a revival among John McCain’s partisans as he... Click to Read the Full Post

Posted by Brooks Jackson on Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Filed under The FactCheck Wire · Tagged with Barack Obama, birth certificate, birthers, Hawaii, natural born citizen