Obama and the Stupidest American Conspiracy Theory

Was Obama born in the United States? His birth certificate has long been a matter of public record, but doubters refuse to give up on the abstruse theory that he’s an African.

Neil Abercrombie is the newly elected governor of 1.3 million Hawaiians. But the full-bearded Democrat wants to convince 83 million Americans – i.e. the 27 percent who refuse to believe Barack Obama was born in Honolulu and think he is not a “natural-born” U.S. citizen and was thus illegally elected to the presidency – that they’re wrong.

Abercrombie wasn’t present in the delivery room on Aug. 4, 1961, when Obama was born, but he was a friend of Obama’s parents and considers claims that they gave false information as to their son’s origins an insult. As a result, Abercrombie wants an exception to the law that prevents him from releasing additional information about Obama’s birth to the public.

The propagandists who doubt Obama’s right to serve as president call themselves “birthers” and they support one of the most successful (not to mention one of the crudest) conspiracy theories among the many that emanate from the over-productive U.S. conspiracy kitchen. The rumor began circulating as early as 2008 during the presidential campaign but was quickly scratched when a “certificate of live birth” copy was released by the Honolulu hospital where Obama was born. But the birthers claim the copy is a forgery.

It doesn’t seem to bother the birthers that the previous Hawaiian governor, a Republican, viewed the original documents and certified them as authentic and that Obama’s parents put the announcement of his birth in the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper on Aug. 13, 1962. They also consider that to be fraudulent. It also doesn’t seem to bother them that even had Barack Obama’s American mother given birth to him in Kenya, he would still be considered a natural-born American citizen anyway.