Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Because a black guy being challenged on his citizenship unsurprisingly elicited the kind of scorn I described.

Hawaii was a state when Obama was born there. There is no legitimate challenge to his citizenship based upon that fact alone.

A background check is the requirement, and any check worth its salt would have discovered foreign citizenship.

You need a birth certificate to secure a passport, so that was the earliest trigger point.

Lastly, Obama did produce the kind of authentication that most people produce. Was 2008 too late for you?

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/eight-years-of-trolling-obama/

A widely shared graphic promoted the falsehood that many of Obama’s early records are “sealed,” including his “original birth certificate.” That’s nonsense.

Obama released a copy of his short-form certification of live birth in 2008 — which FactCheck.org staffers examined and photographed — and then released a copy of his long-form certificate of live birth in 2011. Both versions were validated by state health officials in Hawaii who have said repeatedly that Obama was born there.

Obama’s college records aren’t sealed, either, as the graphic claimed. It’s simply illegal under federal law for Occidental College, Columbia University or Harvard Law School to release Obama’s records to the press or the public without Obama’s written permission. Presidential candidates almost never voluntarily release such information.