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2011: Birth Certificate Released
Main article: Barack Obama Controversies#Birth Certificate
On April 27, 2011,[259] a long-running controversy surrounding Obama’s birth was largely put to rest[260] when Obama had his long-form birth certificate posted at WhiteHouse.gov.[261] Donald Trump, who had attacked Obama on the Birth Certificate issue and was then leading Republicans in polls for the upcoming GOP primary, was effectively knocked out of the race because of this.

The following is a timeline of previous events leading up to the release:
In June 2008 the Obama campaign allowed FactCheck.org to look at his “Certificate of Live Birth” and take photos.
In July 2008 a blogger discovered a birth announcement from the Honolulu Advertiser from August 13, 1961 for Barack Obama. It has since been discovered another newspaper, the Star Bulletin, also documented the birth
PolitiFact went to extreme lengths to verify Obama’s citizenship, attaining scanned copies of his 1992 marriage certificate from Cook County, IL, his driver’s license record, and his registration and disciplinary record. PolitiFact also addressed a number of concerns about the documentation.
In October 2008 Hawaii’s Department of Health released a statement by Dr. Chiyome Fukino verifying that Obama’s birth certificate was on record.
In August 2009 it was revealed that an alleged Kenyan birth certificate for Obama was a hoax.  Another website allows you to create your own imitation Kenyan birth certificates online.

2011: Death of Osama bin Laden

On May 1, 2011, Obama misled the public when he announced that Osama bin Laden was “killed in a firefight” after a U.S. special operations group infiltrated a compound in Abottobad, Pakistan.   Attacks, murders, and kidnappings of Americans have since escalated as reprisals for bin Laden’s death. Al Qaeda, once broken and on the run, operates openly as the jihad has now become global. Relations with Pakistan, a longtime ally throughout the Cold War and War on Terror, became strained. The government of Pakistan denied White House claims it allowed Americans to kill Muslims on its territory.   For all his duplicity and criticism of the War on Terror, Obama experienced only a temporary blip in approval ratings.

An NBC investigation revealed Obama was informed of bin Laden’s whereabouts one full year before he attempted to use it as an election year issue. NBC further reported that there was no “firefight” at all, contradicting what the president told the nation.  As early as the day after bin Laden was executed, it was learned bin Laden was not armed in the alleged “firefight” that Obama claimed took place.

2012: Possible Ties to ACORN

According to Stanley Kurtz – author of Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism (2010) Obama in 1995 sought and obtained the endorsement of a left-wing third party, the New Party in his quest to be elected to the Illinois State Senate. Obama’s “Fight the Smears” campaign has denied this, as has Politico’s Ben Smith. Others who claim he was affiliated with the New Party/ACORN include The Blaze’s Billy Hallowell, Breitbart’s Joel Pollack, Human Events’ Erick Erickson,  Newsbusters’ P.J. Gladnick, Rick Moran at AmericanThinker.com, and various writers at Discover the Networks (which include Kurtz and Erickson).

Kurtz in 2012 has claimed to find minutes of the New Party Chicago chapter that say, “Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party ‘Candidate Contract’ and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.” Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod responded to Kurtz with silence and when asked if that meant “yes or no”, Axelrod stated, “You can take that as I have no idea what you are talking about.”

2012: “You didn’t build that” Controversy

For a more detailed treatment, see You didn’t build that.
On July 13, 2012, at a campaign event in Virginia, Obama gave a speech that immediately stirred up controversy. Speaking about the government’s role in the success of private business, he said:

“ If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. ”
The Romney campaign has used “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that” in ads to show America that Obama believes it is government that creates business rather than hard-working individuals. The Obama campaign has alternatively stated that the sentenced was poorly worded since he was not giving a scripted speech and that when Obama said “that” he was referring to roads and bridges. Obama points to a later portion of his speech in which he said, “The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together,” to support his claim.
Results

On November 6, 2012 Barack Obama won reelection with 332 electoral votes to Mitt Romney’s 206. Obama received 51% of the popular vote (65,899,660 votes) to Romney’s 47% (60,932,152 votes).

See also
Political positions of Barack Obama
Barack Obama and uncharitableness
Barack Obama and abortion
Essay:Born Outside the U.S.A.!
Essay: The Special Interests Candidate
Lobbyists ties to the Obama administration
Obama doublespeak
Obama inauguration
Religion of Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Obama’s Muslim Heritage
The Honorable James David Manning
Essay:The Obama Manifesto
Obama syndrome
Barack Obama’s past dog meat eating and 2012 election campaign
Barack Obama’s “Last chance at dinner” fundraising letter
Essay: Does Barack Hussein Obama care if America defaults on credit?
Essay:The lie that we are safer under Obama
Essay: Foes Want Obama to Fail, A Republican Perspective
Essay:Impeach Obama
Obama’s second term agenda
ObamaRail
Obama sequester
Obama (disambiguation)
Essay: President’s speech after the defeat of two tyrants
Unconstitutional Executive amnesty via Obama Executive Orders
Universal health care for illegal aliens via ObamaCare

External links
Barack Obama Doubletalk
National Journal: Obama facing crisis over incompetence
The New Cult of Personality
Che, Obama, and the Revolutionary Agenda
GAFFNEY: America’s first Muslim president? Washington Times
Barack Obama and Islam. by John L. Esposito.
Democrat: Obama’s grandma confirms Kenyan birth.
Barack Obama on the issues.

This finishes the series on Obama.

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