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Birther pains and pangs
Posted by Letters Editor
Washington, Jefferson didn’t have birth certificates
Were not all the early presidents born of parents who were not American citizens [“Birther pangs,” Opinion, editorial, Nov. 20]?
Were not the parents of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison and James Monroe citizens of the British Empire when those future presidents were born?
Surely, everyone born before 1776 was originally a citizen of a country other than the United States.
— Stephen Lamphear, Burien
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