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doc c doc c
 
February 16, 2009 06:26 AM

Where did the rumors about Barack Obama being born in Kenya first appear?

In your article http://www.mahalo.com/Obama_Birth_Certificate, you say rumors started in 2007, but where?
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bernices bernices
 
 February 16, 2009 05:47 PM
It's always hard to tell the origin of a rumor, which is the reason they are called rumors in the first place. It was being spoken about in 2006 in various forums, then in 2008 the attorney Philip Berg brought it to the attention of the world when he filed a lawsuit claiming the birth certificate Obama had published was false.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=Obama+Birth+Certificate&hl=en&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_user_ldate=1999&as_user_hdate=2006&lnav=h1&hdrange=2007,2009


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doc c doc c
 
February 16, 2009 07:22 PM
Based on the context of those 2006 articles, they are misdated in Google.

A comment like "Would you be beating the drum as hard if McCain had won? " couldn't have really from from 2006.

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brian san brian san
 
February 19, 2009 10:01 AM
Philip Berg filed the claim on August 21, 2008, but I don't have a date for the origin of the rumor. However it seems that the rumor was pre-dated by another (incorrect) rumor that Hawaii was not a state when Obama was born there.
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http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-birth.htm
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/l/lawyersues.htm


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