To concoct/believe Obama was born in Kenya, one had to willfully ignore the civil rights timeline. Obama was born in August 1961. In mid-May 1961, one of the freedom rider buses was firebombed in Alabama and the imagery was was widely publicized in the media. So did Obama's parents then leave the University of Hawaii while his mother was six months pregnant and move to Kenya, but somehow thought their kid would be president some day so they faked his birth certificate?!? Millions of Americans saw pictures of blacks being beaten and attacked by dogs, 4 little girls were blown up in Birmingham, and 3 people were killed registering blacks to vote in Mississippi, all before the Civil Rights Act. Still one mixed race couple (who couldn't legally marry in more than a dozen states) ingeniously managed to dupe Hawaiian officials from Kenya, a country with minimal infrastructure halfway around the world, to preserve their kid's presidential eligibility. No doubt there are conspiracy nuts who aren't very bright, but many well-educated conservatives did nothing to dispel the nonsense.