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.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I hope they get your memo. This was a non issue during the campaign and is brainless to even hint at the issue now.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:27 am
[...] 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… [...]