Monday, August 3, 2009

On the Kenyan Birth Certificate

As I mentioned yesterday, the Birther wingnuts have produced a document that they are calling Barack Obama's "real Kenyan Birth Certificate".


It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that the document is the summer project of some disgruntled xenophobe. If you really need to work through the many problems with this forgery, you can find detailed commentary on Below the Beltway and Obama True and False. Here's the short version:

From December 12, 1963 until December 12, 1964, the official title of Kenya was the Dominion of Kenya. It wasn’t until a year later, on December 12, 1964 that the Republic of Kenya came into existence. And yet, the document above, issued on February 17, 1964 purports to have been issued on behalf of the Office of Principal Registrar, Coast Province, Republic of Kenya.

Lest I be accused of "promoting hatred" once more, I'll leave the naked ridicule to a conservative site:

LGF reader Shiplord Kirel has granted us exclusive permission to reveal his world-shattering scoop! He’s discovered the honest-to-goodness, no BS, real, true, and genuine nirth certifikit for Barack Obama ... and the conspiracy goes much deeper than even the most whacked out Nirther ever realized...


Update: This blog will serve to discuss the various myths and facts surrounding the concept of Natural Born versus Native Born citizen as well as how this applies to President Barack Obama, in light of the various lawsuits filed in courts around the United States.

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