Why Obama Does Not Believe That He Was Born In Us

Why do many Republicans believe Barack Obama was born in Kenya without evidence?

A 2016 poll puts the number of Republicans willing to go out on a limb and assert Obama was foreign born at 29%. I spent 8 years trying to figure out why. The question uses a significant phrase “without evidence.” Indeed, the rumors of a foreign-born Obama took off before there was any reason given (plausible or not) to think it was true.I think some of that is just a way for those Republicans with a palpable hatred of Obama to disrespect him either in what they choose to believe or what they will tell a pollster, irrespective of what they actually believe.It appears to me that the bulk of belief that Obama was born outside the US is based on the human flaw of confirmation bias. Republicans are generally against Obama and that makes them biased to believe any negative assertion about Obama, and to collect these assertions, to give credence to inexpert opinion on expert topics, and to pass on rumors without checking them. Certainly Donald Trump’s popularization of the theories and demands for Obama to release a long-form birth certificate revitalized belief in theories in 2011.There is evidence, all of which fell apart under scrutiny, given to support the foreign-born Obama theory, but those who are biased would not go to the trouble to seek out the debunking of that evidence that was done, or would write it off as propaganda from the Obama political machine.Some of it is sheer stupidity, evidenced by the fact that belief that Obama is foreign born is negatively correlated with the level of education.I have always been reluctant to put racism at the top of the list of reasons, but a black man being president of the United States is a heavy blow to racists (who are more likely to be Republican than Democrat), and belief in a foreign birth for Obama means to them that Obama was not really president, being ineligible. You see Internet posts to the effect that they believe that one day the Truth will come out and every act Obama made and every piece of legislation he signed will evaporate (wouldn’t work that way).

Was Obama born in America or not?

I spent 8 years trying to put down the nonsensical claim that Barack Obama was born anywhere but in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is impervious to facts. Since the web site I created has over 4,000 articles surrounding this issue, I can’t say everything that could be said. For that visit obamaconspiracy.org.Among all the things that could be said, I will select just a few:Two 1961 Honolulu newspapers carried the birth announcement for Barack Obama.The Hawaii Department of Health web site today says: “On April 27, 2011 President Barack Obama posted a certified copy of his original Certificate of Live Birth” and it also says: “I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‛i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i.”It’s important to know that the claim that Obama was born in Kenya arose without any justification whatever. It was just a rumor started at a right-wing forum (no, Hillary’s campaign did not start it). All the so-called evidence that was later concocted to try to make the rumor believable fell apart under scrutiny, proving nothing more than the incompetence of those propounding the theory.Alex Koppleman wrote an article nine years ago today at Salon titled “Why the stories about Obama’s birth certificate will never die.” He was right.Most American adults disbelieve the claim that the former President was born in Kenya, but nearly one in three American adults say that it is definitely or probably true that he was. More Republicans – 51% – believe that to be the case.— YouGov poll December 2017.

Why do some people think Obama wasn't born in the US?

It’s because if that were true, the whole chapter of American history (in which he won election to the white house twice, for eight years) would all be a bad dream, a null and void thing- and it would, if true, excuse a lot of behavior to and judgment of President Obama that could only otherwise be characterized as racist. Above nearly all else, this is about excusing that behavior, without blunting or denying its effect or intention.To be eligible to serve as president, a candidate must be born in the USA, and be 35 years old, and win election. He did all of these things.The fact that he won election (and his election was certified twice) is something a large cohort of white Americans devoutly wish had never happened. This cohort experienced the election of a black man as no small injury; it signaled the death knell of White America they’d so long been predicting as demographics tilt America ever slightly browner and Democratic.The First Stage of Grief, of course, is denial. No! It can’t be! And they haven’t stopped. Indeed, the singular policy direction of the current administration has been to expunge every piece of Obama’s legacy that it can.Denial isn’t a river in Egypt, it is a potent cognitive phenomenon- and they really wanted the whole Obama thing to be just a bad dream. So, believing that it was fake, a fraud, and stuff like that was a source of hope and comfort for them- and they were willing to deceive themselves on any pretense in order to have it. And they’re quite aware that if they can manage to convince enough people that this was the story, they can win- and the winners write the history books.It’s a hopeful incantation being cast across the population, who know full well that if they repeat it full-throatedly in enough numbers, a sizeable portion of the population is willing to second-guess themselves enough to believe it to be true.[1]It’s also something that they maintain with prodigious levels of cognitive dissonance.[2]Footnotes[1] Asch conformity experiments - Wikipedia[2] TEDxCanberra - Ash Donaldson - Cognitive dissonance

Where was Barack Obama born?

(To say that Donald Trump pushed the story of obama not being born in the US is false. In all honesty it was the media that continued to push that story during obamas first few years in office.)When Trump was pushing the phony story that Obama might not have been born in the United States way back when he was playing around with becoming a presidential candidate, he said he had investigators working in Hawaii at that time. “And they can’t believe what they are finding,” Trump said. Duh? How would there be anything to “find” if he wasn’t born there? Would there be a doctor and nurses who weren’t there at the birth testifying that he wasn’t born there? If he hadn’t been born in Hawaii, what would there be to “find” in Hawaii? They can’t believe “what they are finding”?This kind of insinuation is a form of lying and Trump, knowing that many people were uncomfortable with the idea of someone with African heritage in the White House, used it to promote himself. It was a simply lie used to undermine Obama and his authority as president. This was its purpose and it worked. There are still people TO THIS DAY who do not believe he is an American citizen and who will carry that disbelief as long as they live. It helps them in some way, most likely to feel better that Obama was somehow not entitled to be president.Obama’s intelligence, his ability to speak with great eloquence and style, his cool demeanor, his comfortableness inside his own skin, made some people uncomfortable because they lack the qualities that he possesses and because they, themselves, could never have risen to such a high, respected office. Some of it was just racial attitudes: they never wanted to see someone of his racial background in the highest office. Some of it was just fearfulness of the new and unexpected.

Is Obama an American citizen or not, and where was he born?

Duh Obama is an American citizen. Whether or not you believe his birth certificate, he is an American citizen.I have heard some wonky arguments that, even though he was born on US soil, he is not a natural born citizen because that citizenship is only passed through the citizenship of the father.However, even those people, and even the people who believe he was born in Kenya, concede that he is a US citizen. He holds an American social security card, an American passport, is registered to vote, etc.Out of all of those, non-citizen residents can only hold a social security card.According to Obama’s birth certificate, he was born on the island of Honolulu, in the US state* of Hawaii:If you believe this, and you believe that natural-born citizenship does not only pass on from the father, then it naturally follows that Obama is a natural-born citizen.*I stress US state, because at times in the 19th and early 20th century, American citizens who born in US territories were questioned as to their natural-born status. The last time this happened to anyone was when it happened to Barry Goldwater, who was born in the Arizona Territory 3 years before it became a state.In 1964, many commentators said that this made him not a natural-born citizen, and not eligible to be President.Back when lots of people were born in US territories, rather than states, there was always criticism as to whether or not they could be President. This is almost irrelevant now because the only non-state territories are Puerto Rico and DC.