Apr 21, 2010

Anti-Obama 'birthers' face roadblock in Hawaii

05:47 PM
By JEWEL SAMAD

Some folks in Hawaii are tired of dealing with anti-Obama "birthers."

The Hawaii Legislature is close to passing a law that would allow the state to ignore repeated requests for President Obama's birth certificate.

This comes as Obama critics in Arizona try to get its Legislature to pass a law to require Obama -- and other presidential candidates -- to produce their birth certificates before they can get on a ballot.

Press secretary Robert Gibbs said there's little the White House can do about "crazy Internet rumors" that Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible for the presidency. He noted that the campaign posted copies of Obama's birth certificate, and that newspapers in Honolulu printed notices of his birth, which was on Aug. 4, 1961.

"I'm the guy who said 'put the birth certificate on the Internet,' '" Gibbs said. "It has apparently, among those people, dissuaded virtually none of them."

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