(CNN) – The White House released President Obama's original birth certificate Wednesday.
The surprise release follows recent and sustained remarks by businessman Donald Trump, among others, that raised doubts as to whether the president was born in the United States.
Obama's birth certificate [PDF]
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Trump said, "I have accomplished something nobody else has accomplished."
"I want to look at it, but i hope it’s true," he added. "He should have done it a long time ago. I am really honored to have played such a big role in hopefully getting rid of this issue."
Earlier Wednesday, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said the debate has been "really bad for the Republican Party."
The so-called "birther" debate is "good politics" but "bad for the country," said Pfeiffer.
White House spokesman Jay Carney is expected to speak more about the birth certificate Wednesday morning.
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In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday, Trump repeated his doubts and said he had been told the certificate was "missing."
A new CNN investigation revealed earlier this week what most analysts have been saying since the "birther" controversy erupted during the 2008 presidential campaign: Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.
While the president has made light of the controversy, the question remained political red meat for some of his critics. A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll showed that nearly 75% of Americans believe Obama was definitely or probably born in the United States. More than four in 10 Republicans, however, believe he probably or definitely was not born in America.
The U.S. Constitution says only "natural born" citizens can become president - a vague clause that some members of the birther movement contend disqualifies Obama because, they insist, he was born outside the United States.
Skeptics contend, among other things, that Obama was born in his father's home country of Kenya.
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You fail at reading. It says his father was born in Kenya.
unless you really believe the state of Hawaii is in the business of issuing birth certificates for niglets born in Kenya
politics related
Here ya go old fart.
this
although it wont happen cause someone will cry if it did.
man fuck Trump... He ain't gonna talk bout no real shit... time for a real nigga roll call
It is like some condition placed on the peoples of the Roman empire. If you were from a conquered land, you could serve around 25 years in an auxilliry legion and become a citizen. If you were already a citizen you could join a legion and be given a farm in conquered lands 25 years later, or, if you family already had a farm you could do 4-7 years as an officer and be more eligable for the senate.
Land or the promise of land was the motivator in ancient Rome and within its sphere of influence.
The Cities of the USA are not far from breaking. They will break with civil unrest, bubbling over into the surrounding area like a huge spot. What was not devoured by the wave, will be infected by it.
I agree that there are similarities... But the main place I agree with you is how BS it is that they think they can't have a leader from elsewhere... It seems entirely against what America should be, although perhaps quite a lot of Totseans will disagree...
Nah man, it ain't the rule itself that is pissing us off....its the fact that any rule was broken in the first place. How the fuck can the government believe its citizens have to play by any sense of rules....when they themselves skirt around the requisites of the job reigning lord over us?
Its pissing us off even moreso considering when a normal person goes looking for a job, they just about put a camera up our ass during the hiring process. Background checks, urines tests, references....fuck, now they Google us and check our Facebooks. We have to open up so much about our lives just to get employment, yet the president can't maintain a very SMALL set of parameters and play things above board? Rules/expectations that are widely known within the populous for hundreds of fuckin years?
What's really insulting to me, is how today Obama sat there today with feigned confusion at why people are making a big deal of it.....and how its all a "distraction" to the real issues. Well genius, it wouldn't STILL have been a fuckin issue at all had you come forward 3 years ago before you ran for office and when it first became an issue.....and the "confusion" you seem to not comprehend is the fact there are SOME people in this country that still care about integrity, honor, and playing by the rules.
You are right though Rocker, this country is on the brink...and near ruin. I don't know exactly what social unrest will finally be the breaking point, but we are getting closer every day. There is NO FUCKIN WAY this country can sustain the way its going.....the teapot is about to explode.....:eek:
He figured it out dumbfuck.
Why hasn't this thread been moved yet?
I'm pretty confident many people, on both sides of the political spectrum, have seen that document in the last couple of years.
EDIT: and seriously who gives a fuck where he was born anyway. If you're born on American soil it doesn't make you a better person. The point is that he is an American citizen. I'd imaging that that entire clause was designed so a Brit won't try to make America apart of the Empire again.
I doubt Obama is apart of some British plan to get you under their control and anyone who thinks Obama is a secret weapon for the second coming of a Muslim Caliphate isn't worth the time of day.
You try having a nigger supposedly from a different country Run your show.
Its bad enough hes a nigger. But a nigger from diff. country
Glad this is settled
/troll thread
IDchief's products wouldn't fool TDR, and he can't read a fucking birth certificate.