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Kenya dragged into anti-Obama campaign

Conspiracy theories about the citizenship of Obama claim he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore not eligible to be President of the United States under Article Two of the US Constitution.

Some theories allege that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, or that his birth certificate is a forgery.

Campaigning in his home state, Obama’s rival Mitt Romney cracked an out-of-the-ordinary joke Friday about the so-called “birther” controversy.

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While talking up his roots in Michigan — both he and his wife Ann were born and raised here, and his father was a much-beloved governor — Romney noted the proof behind his place of birth.

“Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born in Harper Hospital,” he said to cheers from a crowd of several thousand at a local orchard and cider mill, before joking about the questions some have raised about President Obama’s birthplace. “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”

The crowd reacted wildly, cheering and laughing at the joke. But Romney has typically avoided the “birther” issue altogether, considering Obama debunked the theory last year when he released his long-form birth certificate from the state of Hawaii.

The Romney campaign was quick to clarify, saying he was only referring to Michigan where the candidate was born and raised.

“The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States,” Rick Gorka, the campaign’s traveling press secretary, said in a statement.

The Obama campaign disagreed, tying Romney to the “birthers.”

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“Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them,” Obama campaign spokesperson Ben Labolt said in a statement. “But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”

Several prominent Republican voices, including campaign surrogate Donald Trump, have consistently made headlines by publicly questioning the president’s birthplace.

Romney has so far declined calls to repudiate those comments.

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