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Huckabee Questions Obama Birth Certificate, Claims He Was Raised in Kenya
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| Last Edited | RBH Mar 01, 2011 02:37pm |
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| Author | Michael D. Shear |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 1, 2011 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a possible presidential candidate in 2012, said on Monday that he would “love to know more” about where President Obama was born and claimed — falsely — that Mr. Obama was raised in Kenya.
The comments were prompted by the conservative radio host Steve Malzberg, who asked Mr. Huckabee, “how come we don’t have a health record, we don’t have a college record, we don’t have a birth certificate — why, Mr. Obama did you spend millions of dollars in courts all over this country to defend against having to present a birth certificate?”
The former governor responded, “I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough.” Mr. Huckabee, who is now a Fox News host, then talked repeatedly about his concerns that Mr. Obama was raised in Kenya.
“If you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather,” Mr. Huckabee said.
Mr. Obama did not grow up in Kenya. According to his official biography, the president was raised primarily in Hawaii by his mother and maternal grandparents and spent several years in Indonesia when he was a young boy. |
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