Now Dobbs Hints Prez Is 'Undocumented'

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 22, 2009 7:06 AM CDT

Lou Dobbs, not known for his subtlety on questions of immigration, has added his voice to the fringe chorus insisting that President Obama was not born an American citizen. "I'm starting to think we have a document issue. You suppose he’s un—no, I won’t even use the word undocumented, it wouldn’t be right," Dobbs said on his radio show. He agreed with a caller that his presidency could be "illegal." 

As the blog Think Progress details, Obama's team presented his birth certificate during the presidential campaign, and it has been verified multiple times by Hawaiian officials. But Dobbs said it was "peculiar" and wanted to see something he called a "long-form" document. (More birther stories.)

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