If you can't beat members of the "birther" movement, join---US president Obama

this's the approach President Obama took on Saturday night in Kenya, his father's homeland, when he made a wisecrack about his birthplace, which suspicious critics have harped on for years.


"Some of my critics back home might be suggesting I'm here to look for my birth certificate," Obama said while making a toast at a state dinner hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta. "That's not the case."

In 2011, Obama made his birth certificate public after so-called birthers questioned his eligibility to be president, claiming he was not a U.S. citizen. The certificate lists Honolulu, Hawaii, as his place of birth.

But the controversy persisted, with birthers insisting the detailed birth certificate was a fake, and that the president was in fact born in Kenya.

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