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Luke Scott: Obama wasn't born here
By: Natasha Lennard
December 8, 2010 01:40 PM EST ________________________
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Baltimore Orioles slugger Luke Scott segued into his belief in the Obama “birther” conspiracy near the end of an otherwise unremarkable interview with Yahoo News’s Answer Man.
“He [Obama] was not born here” Scott said. “That's my belief. I was born here. If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go — within 10 minutes — to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, ‘See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.’ The man has dodged everything. He dodges questions, he doesn't answer anything. And why? Because he's hiding something.” In a pointed editor’s note, Yahoo News pasted a copy of POTUS’s certificate of live birth. During his 2008 presidential campaign, in order to refute rumors that he wasn’t born in the U.S., Obama released the certificate – the official document Hawaii provides if you ask to see a birth certificate.
Still, Scott’s view is far from uncommon. A Harris Poll from earlier this year showed that of 2,320 adults surveyed, 25 percent said they believed Obama was not born in the U.S.
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