Hutch Starskey
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Because he's the only candidate in recent history who was pressured to show his. Even though he has his short form birth certificate proving his birth, the state of Hawaii backing it up, it apparently wasn't enough.
Not to mention the references to Kenya and the claim that he is Muslim.
When was the last time a candidate had to prove he was American?
So when the 2008 clinton campaign decided to subtly paint obama as "his roots to basic American and values and culture are at best limited", and pushed his "lack of American roots", her supporters circulating an email implying that he wasn't born in Hawaii, Bob Kerrey using obama's full name (hussein), talking about him being muslim, saying that "people are acting as if he's an islamic Manchurian candidate" -- that was because he's black. Right?
Apparently they were so subtle about it that there is no evidence they actually did it.
Now, how does that in any way absolve Trump from building his political fortunes on the birther nonsense for five years after the release of the long form?
Evidence posted, you choose to ignore it.
Where did I say that it did?
The campaign acted in no way with these tactics. No evidence exists that it did.
The thread is about birtherism. Trump is the birther in chief . You can't separate him from the discussion.