After giving a speech at the Voice of America Freedom Rally in West Chester, Ohio on September 5, 2009, Republican congresswoman Jean Schmidt replied to a woman who commented that Obama was ineligible for the Presidency,"I agree with you. But the courts don't." Schmidt's office subsequently responded that a video clip of this comment was "taken out of context", and reiterated that her stated position is that Obama is a citizen. She had earlier voted to certify the Electoral College vote affirming his presidency, and had said she believes Obama is a U.S. citizen. The statement was issued in response to a July 28, 2009, YouTube video in which Schmidt was seen running away from Mike Stark when he asked whether or not she had any questions about President Obama’s citizenship status.
2009年7月28日、マイク・シャークは、ミズーリ州の下院議員ロイ・ブラントにバラク・オバマがアメリカ合衆国で生まれた市民（natural-born citizen）ではないという陰謀論について質問した。ブラントはこう応答した:私はわからない。なぜ大統領は出生証明書を提出しないのか。そして私はこれは正当な質問と思います。健康証明がない、出生証明書がないのは。What I don’t know is why the President can’t produce a birth certificate. I don’t know anybody else that can’t produce one. And I think that’s a legitimate question. No health records, no birth certificate.Blunt's spokesperson later claimed that the quote was taken out of context.
2009年2月にアラバマ州の地域の新聞の報道によると、タウンホールのミーティングでリチャード・シェルビー上院議員がIn February 2009, a local Alabama newspaper reported that at a town hall meeting Senator Richard Shelby was asked if there was any truth to the rumors that Obama was not a natural-born citizen. According to the paper, Shelby responded that "Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate".新聞によると、シェルビーは"彼の父親はケニア人でそして彼はハワイで生まれたと言っているが、しかし私は出生証明所を見ていない。" A Shelby spokesperson denied the story, but the newspaper stood by the story.
Another incorrect but popularly reported claim is that his father's step-mother, Sarah Obama, told Anabaptist Bishop Ron McRae in a recorded transatlantic telephone conversation that she was present when Obama was born in Kenya.The McClatchy newspapers gave an explanation of how the false story about Obama's step-grandmother began. The tape relied on by Berg and others is cut off in the middle of the conversation, before the passage in which she clarifies her meaning: "'Obama was not born in Mombasa. He was born in America,' the translator says after talking to the woman. ... Another response later says, 'Obama in Hawaii. Hawaii. She says he was born in Hawaii.'"Sarah Obama shed more light on the controversy in a 2007 interview with the Tribune Company. In the interview, Obama's paternal step grandmother stated that six months after Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham were married, she received a letter (at her home in Kenya) announcing the birth of Barack Obama II, who was born August 4, 1961.
It has also been claimed that Obama could not be a natural-born citizen because he traveled to Pakistan at a time when there was a ban on United States passport holders entering that country, which means he must have traveled using a non-U.S. passport. The OC Weekly comments that these assertions are not true:The Pakistan "travel ban" is a complete fabrication based on zero evidence and completely contradicted by State Department records and a 1981 New York Times article.The New York Times article mentioned, along with U.S. State Department travel advisories from 1981, make it clear that travel to Pakistan by U.S. passport holders was possible at that time.
Lt. Col Terry Lakin's attorney, among others, has claimed that anyone, including foreign-born children, could acquire a Hawaiian certification of live birth, and so Obama's possession of such a certificate does not prove that he was born in Hawaii. However, the suggestion that this could have applied to Obama was rejected by Janice Okubo, director of communications for the Hawaii Department of Health: "If you were born in Bali, for example, you could get a certificate from the state of Hawaii saying you were born in Bali. You could not get a certificate saying you were born in Honolulu. The state has to verify a fact like that for it to appear on the certificate". Another fact that refutes this specific claim is that the law allowing foreign-born children to obtain Hawaiian birth certificates did not exist until 20 years after Obama was born, while Obama’s published birth certificate says his birth information was recorded four days after his birth in 1961, and explicitly states that he was born in Honolulu.Additionally, some people claim that the information in the birth certificate only has to be based on the testimony of one parent.
Some campaigners, such as Leo Donofrio, contend that one can be a natural born citizen within the meaning of Article II, Section 1 only if both parents of that person were U.S. citizens at the time of his or her birth. Those who subscribe to this theory argue that since Obama's father was not a U.S. citizen, Obama could not have been a natural born citizen, and is therefore ineligible to be President of the United States.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution statesAll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States....According to Snopes, "Since Hawaii is part of the United States, even if Barack Obama's parents were both non-U.S. citizens who hadn't even set foot in the country until just before he was born, he'd still qualify as a natural-born citizen." Despite this, there have been claims that, although born in Hawaii, Obama does not qualify as a "natural-born citizen".
ツイッター社が2013年の参議院議員通常選挙に際して立ち上げた「政党と話そう」という企画の第一弾においてハッシュタグ「♯自民党に質問」をつけて質問を投稿すると、山本がネット生中継でそれらの疑問に答えるということになっていたが、質問をほぼ完全に無視し、自民党の宣伝に終始し、視聴者からは「どうでもいい」「時間つぶしかよ」「テレビショッピングの小芝居のほうがマシ」との批判が上がった。これに対し山本は6月24日早朝「予想したとおり、視聴者からのツイートは辛辣なものが多かったらしい。参院選挙中であることを考えれば当然だろう。ここぞとばかり、アンチ安倍の人たちが、ワッと攻撃を仕掛けて来るのは目に見えていたが、自分以外だったら、もっとひどかったに違いない（笑）とにもかくにも、反響が大きかったのは良かったと思う。伝わるひとには、伝わっているはずだ。」と自身のブログでコメントしている。