POLIRIXO: DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Rick Santorum said Tuesday that he and President Barack Obama both have the same proof they were born in the United States, making clear that he won’t play into the widely discredited claims about Obama’s birthplace.
“He has a certificate of birth, which is what, if you ask for the record of birth in Hawaii, that is what they give you,” Santorum told more than a dozen Dyersville Republicans when asked about the so-called birther issue at a lunchtime meeting here.
“I’ve looked at my birth certificate,” said Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who was born Virginia. “I have a certificate of birth. I have the same thing.”
