McCain Campaign Investigated Obama Birth Certificate Rumors, finds nothing.

[evildevil]

McCain Campaign Investigated, Dismissed Obama Citizenship Rumors

In the final months of the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign learned of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that asked the state to strip Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of the Democratic nomination on suspicion that he was not an American citizen. The complaint for

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[angi_is_altered]

[___closetome]

[happythree]

Agreed.

[sunoftheskye]

Duh. This is why the whole birther movement didn't make sense to me. Do you think if this was true McCain wouldn't have used it? He certainly tried every other trick in the book.

[schmiss]

Not to mention the Clintons.

[noirgirlcity]

I knew that Alan Keyes was going to be a problem for Obama five years ago when I read about how the Illinois GOP brought him in from another state to run against Obama for the Senate. He's had this imagined rivalry with Obama ever since. That man is a psycho with an ego, and he really, really needs to go away.

[missmurchison]

He should really be angry at the Republicans, who sent him there as a sacrificial lamb. Not that I can have any pity for a man who would disown his daughter because she's gay.

[devil_ad_vocate]

Alan Keyes is a psychotic turd.

[karli_meaghan]

IA. Also, Alan Keyes is fucking nuts. There, I said it.

[madmsllepetite]

Didn't Obama's aunt state that she was at the (Kenyan) hospital when he was born?

[missmurchison]

No. That was a mistranslation of a statement by a different relative.

[happythree]

Ooooh, ~mistranslation~, how convenient!

[neigedens]

Yes, and I also have a bridge in Brooklyn that I am interested in selling you, if you'll just give me your bank account numbers.