It's interesting that the Hillary Clinton campaign started the whole "Birther" issue. I suspect that the Clinton administration may have aided the "scrubbing" of Obama's past, back when he was an "up and coming" Illinois politician. I think that they greatly underestimated the potential threat that he would pose to Hillary in 2008, thinking he would be considered as a presidential candidate after Hillary had served her terms. They couldn't make it a huge issue, as they would have been culpable for the "scrubbing" that occurred of Obama's past. They also underestimated the fervor of the statist, religious, fundamentalist, sociopathic wing of the Democrat party.

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