The conspiracy over Tsai’s dissertation is baseless but it could still have political ramifications

Taiwan Ne5ws
Date: 2019/09/28
By: David Spencer, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer

KAOHSIUNG (Taiwan News) – – Many U.S. citizens still firmly believe that Barack Obama, the country’s first African American President, should never have held the highest office in the land.

The group, who are commonly referred to as "birthers," maintain the view that Obama was ineligible for the Presidency because he was not born in the U.S., as is required under Article Two of the US Constitution. They argued that he was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii, as he claimed.

There was never a shred of evidence to support these wild claims. Indeed, during his first election campaign in 2008, Obama published the short form of his US birth certificate and in 2011, with his political opponents still chomping at the bit, he published the long version too.

Despite this categorical proof of Obama’s U.S. birth, his opponents persisted in their outlandish conspiracy theories. Whether motivated by racism, political opportunism, or plain bitterness at losing elections to him, the rumors would not go away. But they are now viewed by all but the most entrenched political opponents as baseless and a crass attempt at political smearing.
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