Fact Check: No (again), that is not Obama's birth certificate from Kenya

[struggle4progress]

Internet is trying to have fun with a rumor that won't die.
Posted: August 8, 2010 - 4:27am
By Carole Fader

Many Times-Union readers want to know: A copy of President Barack Obama's Kenyan birth certificate has been e-mailed to me, proving that he was not born in the United States. Should I believe it? ...

- The date on the document is Feb. 17, 1964, and shows it being issued by the "Republic of Kenya." History books show that Kenya was the Dominion of Kenya in February 1964 and didn't adopt the name Republic of Kenya until Dec. 12, 1964.

- The age of Obama's father is incorrect. Obama Sr. was born in 1936 and would have been 24 or 25 years old at the time of his son's birth, not 26 as listed on the document.

- Mombasa is several hundred miles from Nyanza Province in western Kenya, where the Obama family lived. Nairobi would have been a much closer large city to take a woman about to deliver a baby ...

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-08-08/story/fact-check-no-again-not-obamas-birth-certificate-kenya

[marmar]

1. But facts don't matter to the braindead yowling minions......

nt

[47of74]

2. And it's the same fake one from several months back.

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. Then he truly IS our SAVIOR!!!

If he can be born in two different locations at once, what *can't* he do?

[scarface2004]

4. obama was born in detroit...

he started the 1967 riot...you can look it up!

[mike r]

5. The real birth certificate says

'Socialist Republic of Kenya', not just 'Republic of Kenya'.
:sarcasm:

[Bitwit1234]

6. I thought Kenya was a part of the British empire than wouldn't

that make Obama a Brit. Better yet make him a citizen of the Universe and settle it once and for all.