Ben Smith passes along this tidbit from Alabama:
Another local resident asked [Alabama Senator Richard] Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama’s U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof.
“Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven’t seen any birth certificate,” Shelby said. “You have to be born in America to be president.”
Is Shelby really trying to stoke the fires of Obama Derangement Syndrome here ?
I would hope not, and I would hope that the rest of the GOP recognizes that hitching political fortunes to something with no legal and factual merit is not the way out of the wilderness.
I hope they get your memo. This was a non issue during the campaign and is brainless to even hint at the issue now.
[...] Earlier this week, I noted that Alabama Senator Richard Shelby had seemed to endorse the claims by some that Barack Obama is not a “natural born” citiz… [...]