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Birther Before His Time?

by Josh Marshall
01.16.10 | 2:36 pm

Part of the arcana of the ‘birther’ movement is the claim that Barack Obama’s parents were never actually married, and that Obama was born out of wedlock. In a TV chat show appearance back in 2008, Scott Brown suggested that he also didn’t think Obama’s parents ever got married and that Obama was an out-of-wedlock child.

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