Obama In Kenya

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Obama: Legit or not?

Being born in the United States is one of the most important things to becoming our president. Yet it seems that Obama might not be as legitimate as we thought. Claiming to be born in Hawaii many people claim that he was born in Kenya, Africa. During the 2008 presidential race, Hillary Clinton supporters claimed that Obama was not actually born in the U,S, but instead in Kenya. Kenyan residents or anybody from a different country is ineligible to be the President of the United States.
Republican “birthers” also made these such claims, They claimed that since he was not born in the U,S that he was not eligible to be America’s 44th president.
Donald Trump, who we now know to be the republican party's presidential candidate,
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Being a dual citizen is illegal for being the president. According to Millercenter.org, "I was raised as an Indonesian child and a Hawaiian child and as a black child and as a white child,"
Barack Obama who has served for not quite 8 years now, has still not been proven to be born here nor in Kenya, Africa. He will have been the first U.S president to not be born in the United States of America. That would be a major dissapointment.
The kenyan government released obama's kenyan birth certificate. It was replicated many times, one seemed to be an authentic copy and Obama denied it. Obama continued to deny these claims becuase it would disqualify him from being the president of the United States of America.
People use these claims to try to get President Obama out of office, or back when he was running to try to not even get him in in the first place. Their attempts failed.
On June 9th 2008, Jim Geraghty publicly asked Obama to release his birth certificate. Geraghty also claimed that his middle name is Muhammed instead of hussain. Also claiming that he is not a natural born
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Many conservative republicans such as Newt Gingrich, David Vitter, Andy martin, and Mike Huckabee all claim that obama being president is unconstitutional and unfair. Republicans made such a big deal of it because it gave them a better chance in winning the 2008 and 2012 presidential races. Although neither of them succeeded it raised a lot of controversy. If Obama was not born in the United States of America, then he could be tried in a Federal Court of Law. According to President Obama, “I have watched with bemusement. I’ve been puzzled with the degree with which this thing just kept on going. We’ve had every official in Hawaii — Democrat and Republican — every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact I was born in Hawaii August 4, 1961 in Kapiʻolani Hospital.
Obama who claims he is a legitimate president has yet to release a birth certificate, raising much controversy. If he was to release his birth certificate then he could squash all controversy.
Whether obama is a legitimate president or not, we will never know, but what we do know is that one day we will find out. What actions will be taken who

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