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Originally Posted by techguyone
I would agree but didn't Obama himself bring his place of birth into question, he wrote some stuff before he came into politics indicating he was born in Kenya or some such place.
If that's true, surely it's not unreasonable to ask for some proof?
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Obama never wrote anything. It was an article from the 90's that included the error that he was born in Kenya. Something later corrected with statements indicating the people in charge had always assumed he was born in Hawaii and was a simple mistake. Given his father was a known figure and Kenyan whilst Obama was relatively low key, it's not an impossible mistake to make.
It then led to this, which people believe Clinton fueled when going head to head.
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detailed in a lengthy four-page-long investigation how in April 2008, when Clinton was slipping in her battle against Obama for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, ‘Clinton supporters’—as they say—circulated an anonymous email chain that pushed the theory.
“‘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,’ the email that Clinton supporters circulated read.”
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All in all the people that lit this fire achieved the reaction they wanted but failed to get the result they wanted with Obama serving 2 terms comfortably.
Funnily enough, part of the Clinton email scandals and their handover were set to reveal that they were fueling the Obama citizenship debate by junpstarting reporters with stories to circulate. Naturally as seen above, its clear someone deleted or tampered with those emails so we'll never know.