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Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories

Debunked conspiracy theories

"Birtherism" redirects here. For similar challenges against other people, see Natural-born-citizen clause (United States) § Eligibility challenges.

During Barack Obama's campaign for president in 2008, throughout his presidency and afterwards, there was extensive news coverage of Obama's religious preference, birthplace, and of the individuals questioning his religious belief and citizenship – efforts eventually known as the "birther movement",^[1] or birtherism,^[2] names by which it is widely referred to across media.^[3] The movement falsely asserted Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because he was not a natural-born citizen of the United States as required by Article Two of the Constitution. Studies have found these birther conspiracy theories to be most firmly held by Republicans strong in both political knowledge and racial resentment.^[4]^[5]

Theories alleged that Obama's published birth certificate wa

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OBAMA, Barack

In 2004, Barack Obama won election to the U.S. Senate from Illinois, making him only the fifth Black Senator in American history. Four years later, Obama was elected President of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Over the course of his career, Obama challenged Americans to participate in what he called “the audacity of hope.” “I’m not talking about blind optimism here,” he said during a primetime speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. “I’m talking about something more substantial. . . . . Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. . . . A belief that there are better days ahead.”¹

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961, the son of Barack Obama Sr., an economist, and Ann Dunham Obama, an anthropologist. Obama’s parents divorced when he was young, and his mother later married Lolo Soetoro, who worked for an oil company. Obama lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, with his mother and stepfather before returning to live with his grandparents in Hawaii, where he

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Barack Obama: Life in Brief

Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States—becoming the first African American to serve in that office—on January 20, 2009.

The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha), were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. In 2004, he was elected by a record majority to the US Senate from Illinois and, in February 2007, announced his candidacy for president. After winning a closely fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee for president, in the general election.

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