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DeLay Quits Dancing, Joins Birthers

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Questions Obama's citizenship.

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Now that he’s finished dancing with the stars, it appears Tom DeLay is back to his old tricks: In a post-Dancing interview with Newsweek, DeLay said, “I have no idea” as to whether or not Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States. “You have to show a birth certificate to play Little League baseball,” DeLay says. “It's a question that should be answered. It's in the Constitution that you have to be a natural-born citizen of the United States to be president.”

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