Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-27

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00:03:17 1 Background
00:03:26 1.1 Early life of Barack Obama
00:06:20 1.2 Origins of the claims
00:10:07 2 Release of the birth certificates
00:10:18 2.1 Short form, 2008
00:14:56 2.1.1 Rejection by conspiracy theorists
00:17:04 2.1.2 Hawaii Department of Health response
00:20:18 2.2 Long form, 2011
00:22:38 2.2.1 Rejection by conspiracy theorists
00:23:49 2.2.2 "Showing papers"
00:24:42 3 False claims
00:24:52 3.1 Born in Kenya
00:26:25 3.1.1 Obama's paternal step-grandmother's version of events
00:28:32 3.1.2 Fake Kenyan birth certificate
00:30:27 3.2 Not born in Hawaii
00:34:35 3.3 Lost U.S. citizenship
00:36:13 4 Disputes over "natural-born citizen" requirements
00:37:31 4.1 Parental citizenship
00:39:07 4.2 Dual citizenship
00:41:31 5 Campaigners and proponents
00:48:54 5.1 Donald Trump
00:52:59 5.2 Joe Arpaio
00:54:52 5.3 Matthew Hill
00:56:25 5.4 Roy Moore
00:56:55 5.5 Richard Shelby
00:57:52 5.6 Roy Blunt
00:58:46 5.7 Jean Schmidt
00:59:46 5.8 Nathan Deal
01:01:01 5.9 Sarah Palin
01:03:35 5.10 Tracey Mann
01:05:39 5.11 David Vitter
01:06:30 5.12 Newt Gingrich
01:07:39 5.13 Andy Martin
01:08:24 5.14 Mike Huckabee
01:09:16 5.15 Michele Bachmann
01:10:08 5.16 Mike Coffman
01:11:14 5.17 Arizona electors
01:12:03 6 Political impact
01:18:20 6.1 Opinion surveys
01:24:53 6.2 Dilemma for Republicans
01:26:39 7 Commentary and criticism
01:37:43 8 Legislation and litigation
01:40:41 9 Impact on the 2012 presidential election and beyond
01:42:32 10 White House responses
01:43:42 10.1 Press secretary's response
01:46:33 10.2 Barack Obama's response
01:51:59 11 See also



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During Barack Obama's campaign for president in 2008, throughout his presidency, and afterwards, a number of conspiracy theories falsely asserted Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because he was not a natural-born citizen of the U.S. as required by Article Two of the Constitution.
Theories alleged that Obama's published birth certificate was a forgery—that his actual birthplace was not Hawaii but Kenya. Other theories alleged that Obama became a citizen of Indonesia in childhood, thereby losing his U.S. citizenship. Still others claimed that Obama was not a natural-born U.S. citizen because he was born a dual citizen (British and American). A number of political commentators have characterized these various claims as a racist reaction to Obama's status as the first African-American president of the United States.These claims were promoted by fringe theorists (pejoratively referred to as "birthers"), some of whom sought court rulings either to declare Obama ineligible to take office, or granting access to various documents which they claimed would evidence such ineligibility; none of these efforts were successful. Some political opponents, especially in the Republican Party, have expressed skepticism about Obama's citizenship or been unwilling to acknowledge it; some have proposed legislation which would require presidential candidates to provide proof of eligibility.Expressed belief in such theories has persisted despite Obama's pre-election release of his official Hawaiian birth certificate in 2008, confirmation by the Hawaii Department of Health based on the original documents, the April 2011 release of a certified copy of Obama's original Certificate of Live Birth (or long-form birth certificate), and contemporaneous birth announcements published in Hawaii newspapers. Polls conducted in 2010 (before the April 2011 release) suggested that at least 25% of adult Americans said that they doubted Obama's U.S. birth, and subsequently a May 2011 Gallup poll found that the percentage had fallen to 13% of American adults (23% of Republicans) who continued to exp ...