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There is a video going around that appears to show what many people already know- Obama is not a ‘natural born’ citizen.  The benefit of the video is that it’s in his own words, making it a true ‘slam dunk.’  Unfortunately, it is just a very clever editing job by someone very good working with video.  It would not surprise me if we turned up video some day of Obama speaking back in 1999 or 2002 or before the presidency was a twinkle in his eye (so, maybe as far back as 1970) confessing as much… but this is not that video.

The video in question is here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64PueR5nXw

It’s been through a filter or something to add to its feel of authenticity, as though the video emerged from some third party who happened to be filming, with Obama unawares.

However, I found the video here:  http://www.youtube.com/user/ObamaSnippetsDotCom#p/u/6/dJUxsFBwcbs

ObamaSnippetsDotCom seems to be the culprit, here.  On his profile page he makes it clear that he’s manipulating videos.  I’m sure the first video is his doing, too… which makes me think he was trying to bait people.  Maybe.  I note that in the first video the White House icon is not present.  Maybe there is different source video involved…

But about that source video…

This is what reveals it to be a hoax.

Proceeding to the White House website, I found the original source video behind the video.  Here it is:  http://www.whitehouse.gov/video/The-President-Talks-with-Students-in-Turkey?category=9

On the passed around video (not Obamasnippets video), cue it up to about the 13th second.
On the whitehouse video, cue it up to about 21:20.

If you notice on the passed around video, the first one I linked to in this post, at the 13th second, a man reaches down and grabs his water bottle to take a drink as Obama is saying, “Well first of all.”  He then goes on to give his ‘confession.’

Now play the white house video.  The same exact man reaches down to take a drink of water as Obama says “Well first of all.”  Only now Obama continues on to say, “I’m not a member of — the United States is not a member of the European Union, so it’s not our decision to make”  [Transcript]

I’m pretty sure we can lay this video down to rest.  It’s just a clever video meant to play to the crowd of people who have deep doubts about the eligibility and agenda of the person currently occupying the Oval Office.

Anthony Horvath is the author of the Birth Pangs series, a post-apocalyptic series describing the death of America, and the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries and contributor at Laiglesforum.com.

Here are the videos embedded:

First video:

ObamaSnippets:

White House video:

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