BIRTHER NONSENSE

(h/t Atrios)

Orly Taitz is a prominent birther fanatic and the Orange County Register has an in-depth article about her and the birther movement. Taitz makes 3 claims:

1) The Certificate of Live Birth from Hawaii can be given to children who were not born in the U.S.

2) Pres. Obama's Kenyan grandmother said he was born in Kenya.

3) Obama travelled to Pakistan when it was illegal for an American to do so.

The Register looked into all three claims and debunked them:

The problem is most of the above facts aren’t true.

For starters, the Pakistan “travel ban” is a complete fabrication based on zero evidence and completely contradicted by State Department records and a 1981 New York Times article. The full transcript from Obama’s grandmother shows that she never said he was born in Kenya—in fact, she repeatedly said he was born in Hawaii. The law allowing foreign-born children to obtain Hawaiian COLBs didn’t exist until 20 years after Obama was born, while Obama’s published COLB says his birth information was recorded four days after his birth in 1961.