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Posted by Mass in General Discussion: Presidential (Through Nov 2009)
Mon Nov 09th 2009, 09:00 AM
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archiv...

The punch line -- hardee har! -- is that news of the baby girl's birth had to be telegrammed to her mother, who had missed the plane on which the surprise birth occurred.

What's the connection to the birthers? If Barack Obama had actually been born in Kenya, then his mother would have to have been in Kenya too! I don't think anyone is suggesting that his mother was other than the one he has always claimed, Stanley Ann Dunham. Presumably somewhere in the passport records of the United States or Kenya is information about whether his mother (a) left the United States, or (b) entered Kenya in 1961 when her son was born. If she didn't leave the U.S. in the summer of 1961. then by definition her child has to have been a natural-born U.S. citizen.

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