Barack Obama actually said...

Over the last two-and-a-half years, there's been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short term for Republicans, but creates I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election, where most people feel pretty confident the president was born where he says he was, in Hawaii.

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Obama discusses the political implications of the birther issue and its potential impact on Republican candidates.

04/14/2011

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