Obama Birth Certificate

Trump sends investigators to Hawaii in search of Obama’s birth certificate

Meredith Viera’s interview with Donald Trump on the “Today Show” became a heated exchange when Viera challenged Trump on a number of issues that included Trump’s questioning President Obama’s place of birth.

Trump who has hinted to making a run for the White House in 2012, said he has his people searching for Obama’s birth certificate in Hawaii and that “those people cannot believe what they are finding.”

"I am saying I want to see the birth certificate,” Trump said. “It's very simple. I want to see the birth certificate. How come his own family doesn't know which hospital he was born in? How come -- forget about birth certificates. Let's say there's no birth certificate. How come in the hospital itself, okay? This is one of the...in the hospital itself, there's no records of his birth. In other words, it doesn't say how much they paid, where is the doctor, here's your room bill."

Viera who has announced she is planning an exit from the “Today” show was criticized by some who didn’t think she held Trump’s “feet to the fire.”

"Trump simply steamrolled over her challenges, for instance, on Hawaii's policy as to what birth documents it makes available," Time magazine writer James Poniewozik said. "But she also let him make the claim that Obama's grandmother said she saw him born in Kenya—an old and long-debunked chestnut of birthers that ranks up there with the fake Mombassa birth certificate without questioning it. So now millions of Today viewers are invited to take it as fact.”

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Oklahoma House advances bill calling for presidential candidates to produce birth certificates

President Barack Obama would have to prove his U.S. citizenship to Oklahoma election officials if he wants to be on next year's presidential primary ballot under a bill approved Wednesday by a House committee.

The provision in Senate Bill 91 is an amendment filed by Sen. Ralph Shortey, R-Oklahoma City. The bill still has its original language that would require each candidate filing with the state Election Board to provide proof of identity and eligibility to hold the office.

Shortey's amendment calls for presidential candidates to present certified copies of a birth certificate, a U.S. certificate of birth abroad or a report of birth abroad of a U.S. citizen to suffice for proof of citizenship.

“A lot of people are classifying this as a birther bill which I don't think it is,” Shortey said. “The concern has stemmed from the questions that have arisen from President Obama.”

A similar measure failed to advance two years ago in the Legislature.

Doubts about the citizenship of the Democratic president, who announced this week he is seeking re-election, still linger from so-called “birthers,” a small but vocal group that has been questioning whether Obama actually was born on U.S. soil.

“All of our election laws don't deal anything with the presidential candidates,” Shortey said. “You can't challenge a presidential candidate for qualifications or eligibility.”

Shortey said that discussion over the president's birth prompted him to look into what proof presidential candidates must present to prove they are U.S. citizens, which is a requirement of the U.S. Constitution.

He couldn't find any, he said.

“Basically we just trust the guy,” Shortey said.

“This basically puts the responsibility on the state to basically qualify the candidate,” he said.

Obama in 2008 presented a “certificate of live birth” and a newspaper notice tells of Obama's birth in Honolulu in 1961. Shortey said that document wouldn't meet the eligibility requirements of SB 91.

The House of Representatives Rules committee passed SB 91 by a vote of 11-0. It now goes to the full House.

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