Has Obama’s granny confirmed Kenyan birth?
The Pennsylvania Democrat who has sued Sen. Barack Obama demanding he prove his American citizenship – and therefore qualification to run for president – has confirmed he has a recording of a telephone call from the senator’s paternal grandmother confirming his birth in Kenya.
The issue of Obama’s birthplace, which he states is Honolulu in 1961, has been raised enough times that his campaign website has posted an image purporting to be of his “Certification of Live Birth” from Hawaii.
But Philip J. Berg, a former deputy attorney general for Pennsylvania, told the Michael Savage talk radio program tonight that the document is forged and that he has a tape recording he will soon release.
“This has been a real sham he’s pulled off for the last 20 months,” Berg told Savage. “I’ll release it [the tape] in a day or two, affidavits from her talking to a certain person. I heard the tape. She was speaking [to someone] here in the United States.”
This is a dead horse. It has been beaten repeatedly. Snopes.com and Factcheck.org have both debunked this story. Writers for Factcheck.org actually managed to physically handle and examine the original birth certificate and have determined it to be authentic.
These wild accusations are just the final death throws of a desperate and increasingly negative campaign.
Celebrations in the Kenyan village of Kogelo – birthplace of Barack Obama’s father – went on through Monday night into Tuesday morning,
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