delta1 wrote:More than 30% of Americans still believe that Obama is a Kenyan (born there), and a muslim ...
I'd be willing to bet that an equal percentage believe that Donald Trump initiated those thoughts ...
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Interestingly enough, the whole "Kenyan" thing began with Obamas paternal grandmother ... speaking to the press, she was saying how proud she was that her grandson could become President of the US, she went on to say that she could clearly remember his birth, right there in that village and how bad she felt when he was so quickly whisked away and rushed to Hawaii where his other grandparents lived ... oops
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As for the muslim issue .... there is no doubt that his mother married Lolo Soetoro after which she and "Barry" moved to Indonesia where Barry attended a muslim school where he was admitted when his mother declared to the school that they were muslims ... while there, he attended muslim services and studied Muslimism (?) at school ...
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Those are the facts ... small surprise that there are many who believe him to be Kenyan and a muslim ...
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I will add that the Certificate of Live Birth that he produced after as much foot-dragging as we've seen Trump do over his tax returns) is legally the same sort of document my wife had when she first applied for a passport ... the State Department declined to issue her a passport until she produced a Certified Birth Certificate ... inasmuch as she had to secure that document in person from the state in which she was born, she had to make a special trip and go to considerable trouble to obtain the document (mostly waiting time) ...
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I have no personal knowledge about the circumstances of his birth and only know what his granny had to say ... I DO find it more than a bit curious, however, that he could be accepted as president with a document that the state department would not accept to issue MrsS a passport ...