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The information about Barack Obama's true birthplace led to a bittersweet moment for the president's supporters: The good news is that he was, in fact, born in the United States. The bad news is that he was really born in Texas.
During last year's campaign it was suggested that Obama was born in Kenya, on a plane, or somewhere in between. The Obama campaign wasn't forthcoming about the matter, and has still not supplied the original birth certificate that legally confirms the date and time, even to support the Texas claim.
The White House announced yesterday that Barack Hussein Obama was born July 23, 1961 in Midland Memorial Hospital on the Texas prairie.
How Obama's mother ended up in Midland is still a bit of a mystery. At 17 years old she was characterized as "high spirited," and reportedly jumped on the private plane of an oilman who was visiting Hawaii during the latter stages of her pregnancy.
Conspiracy theorists attempted to link the unnamed oilman to the Bush family, which was living around Midland at the time. They could find no connection, but it did emerge that Obama was in the same maternity ward as future actor Woody Harrelson.
Shortly after the mother and child returned to Hawaii they found a sympathetic doctor to issue a birth certificate that reflected the now-official August 4 date.
The Obama campaign allegedly knew the whole truth but kept it quiet, "We that the public would support an African-American candidate," the spokesman said. "But it was clear that anyone from Texas would be pretty much unelectable.”
This is satire. Every person born in Texas is really cool. Except one. You know who you are.
