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The USA had no queer problems until Obama came along. Obama is
responsible for all the queer and coon problems.

PHOENIX – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday unveiled
preliminary results of an investigation, conducted by members of his
volunteer task force, into the authenticity of President Barack Obama's
birth certificate, a controversy that has been widely debunked but that
remains alive for the so-called birther movement.

At a news conference, Arpaio, whose office is facing a federal inquiry involving alleged racial profiling, said the probe revealed that there was probable cause to believe Obama's long-form birth certificate released by
the White House in April is a computer-generated forgery. He also said the selective service card completed by Obama in 1980 in Hawaii also was most likely a forgery.

"We don't know who the perpetrators are of these documents," Arpaio said, although he said he doesn't think the president forged the documents.

On Thursday, Obama's campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt offered a light-hearted dismissal of Arpaio's probe — he tweeted what he referred to as a "live
link" to the sheriff's news conference, but instead provided a link to a snippet of the old conspiracy-theory based TV series, "The X-Files."

The sheriff said a forensic examination of the electronic document that
the White House provided last year proves that it was not simply scanned
to create a computer file but rather assembled from several pieces, East
Valley Tribune.com reported.

Arpaio's probe comes amid a federal grand jury investigation into the
sheriff's office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least
December 2009, focusing on the sheriff's anti-public corruption squad. Separately, the U.S. Justice Department has accused Arpaio's office of
racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially
charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for
speaking Spanish. Arpaio denies the allegations and said the investigation
is politically motivated.

Earlier Thursday, the 79-year-old Republican sheriff defended his need to spearhead the investigation into Obama's birth certificate by saying that nearly 250 people connected to a conservative Arizona Tea Party group
requested one last summer.

"I'm not going after Obama," said Arpaio, who has criticized the
president's administration for cutting off his federal immigration powers
and conducting the civil rights investigation of his office. "I'm just
doing my job."

Speculation about Obama's birthplace has swirled among conservatives for
years. "Birthers" maintain that Obama is ineligible to hold the country's highest elected office because, they contend, he was born in Kenya, his father's homeland. Some contend Obama's birth certificate must be a fake.

Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed that Obama was born there,
meaning he's a native-born American, and Obama released a copy of his
long-form birth certificate in April. Courts also have rebuffed lawsuits
over the issue. Of late, the president's re-election campaign has poked
fun at it, selling coffee cups with a picture of the president's birth
record.

Some critics suggest Arpaio's aim is to divert attention from his own
legal troubles while raising his political profile as he seeks a sixth
term this year. The sheriff vehemently denies such strategies are in play.

Critics also have sought Arpaio's resignation over allegations that more
than 400 sex-crimes cases over a three-year period ending in 2007 were
either inadequately investigated or weren't investigated at all by the Sheriff's Office after the crimes were reported. The Sheriff's Office said
the backlog was cleared up after the problem was brought to Arpaio's
attention.

Arpaio has said he took deliberate steps to avoid the appearance that his investigation is politically motivated. Instead of using taxpayer money,
the sheriff farmed it out to lawyers and retired police officers who are volunteers in a posse that examines cold cases for him. Other posses
assist deputies in duties that include providing free police protection at malls during the holiday season or transporting people to jail.

The sheriff remains popular among Republicans. GOP presidential candidates
have courted his endorsement throughout the primary season. At last week's Republican presidential debate in Arizona, Arpaio won loud cheers. During
a question about Arizona's border woes, former Sen. Rick Santorum said the government ought to give local police agencies the chance to enforce immigration law as Arpaio has.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sheriff-arpaio-obama-birth-certificate- may-be-forgery-flna285082

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