{"id":78,"date":"2008-10-25T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/barack-obama-is-a-us-citizen.html"},"modified":"2008-10-25T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T12:22:44","slug":"barack-obama-is-a-us-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/barack-obama-is-a-us-citizen.html","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama is a US citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/have-they-no-decency.html\"> addressed the &#8220;non-citizen smear&#8221;,<\/a> but as a public service here is a summary for the benefit of anyone who may still doubt the<br \/>\neligibility of Barack Obama for President according to the Constitution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Obama campaign has already posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/invite\/birthcert\">copy of Obama&#8217;s birth certificate on his campaign website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Snopes.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/obama\/birthcertificate.asp\">debunks the &#8220;non-citizen smear&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FactCheck.org actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/born_in_the_usa.html\">saw the original birth certificate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do share this post with anyone who is irrational enough to believe the non-citizen smear, but rational enough to be convinced otherwise by solid evidence. Don&#8217;t bother sending the link to people who fail the second criteria, you&#8217;ll be wasting Internet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve previously addressed the &#8220;non-citizen smear&#8221;, but as a public service here is a summary for the benefit of anyone who may still doubt the eligibility of Barack Obama for President according to the Constitution: the Obama campaign has already posted a copy of Obama&#8217;s birth certificate on his campaign website Snopes.com debunks the &#8220;non-citizen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[29,111,26,95],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purple-politics","category-read-this","tag-barack-obama","tag-obama-derangement-syndrome","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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