President Obama’s Eligibility: The Birther Debate Continues?

When the Clinton campaign or their surrogates floated the theory that Obama was born in Kenya and not Hawaii I was confused. I was even more confused when Clinton donor, supporter, and friend, Donald Trump, demanded to see President Obama’s birth certificate. Regardless of the geographic location of Obama’s place of birth his mother was a United States citizen and as a result he is a natural born citizen. For example, Ted Cruz was born to an American mother in Canada and as a result he was eligible to run and serve as president. So why are we talking about this?

The real reason we’re talking about it is because the media is desperate to derail Donald Trump’s campaign. They know Trump has a hard time admitting his mistakes and a result they can keep this fake controversy in the headlines. The funny part of this particular attack on Trump is that it originated from Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign against Obama — either her campaign or their surrogates. Each time the media brings up the matter they go through a tortuous explanation of how the leaked emails from the campaign that discuss the matter aren’t specific enough. They suggest that the real source were simply “very big Clinton supporters” and not actually associated with the campaign. When the issue originally hit the news and everyone assumed it originated from the Clinton campaign the media didn’t call the attack “bigoted” but when it is associated with Trump it became “bigoted”.

At the end of the day the attack — charge — whatever was stupid. Obama was eligible regardless…