{"id":211,"date":"2009-08-26T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/08\/obama-circumcised-how-dare-the-birthers-ask.html"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T14:31:17","slug":"obama-circumcised-how-dare-the-birthers-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/08\/obama-circumcised-how-dare-the-birthers-ask.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama Circumcised? How Dare the “Birthers” Ask!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now those crazed “birthers” are demanding to know if President Obama is circumcised, by way of establishing his country of origin! Can you believe the chutzpah? The excellent Tablet<\/a> web magazine points this out. What sane and decent American would ever raise such an inappropriate question<\/a>? (Note the date of the preceding link.)<\/p>\n

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Now those crazed “birthers” are demanding to know if President Obama is circumcised, by way of establishing his country of origin! Can you believe the chutzpah? The excellent Tablet web magazine points this out. What sane and decent American would ever raise such an inappropriate question? (Note the date of the preceding link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nObama Circumcised? 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