In 2008, Andy Martin, Illiois (R) candidate filed a lawsuit against the state of Hawaii calling for the public release of Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate, which followed on from his claims since 2004. Obama had previously posted an image of his short-form birth certificate online, but Martin's lawsuit sought a copy of Obama's long-form birth certificate. The Hawaii Supreme Court dismissed Martin's lawsuit.

Martin was not involved in The Tea Party.

Clinton chief strategist, Mark Penn's 2012 strategy memo suggested how the campaign might take advantage of this. "Every speech should contain the line that you were born in the middle of America to the middle class in the middle of the last century," he advised Clinton. "... Let's explicitly own 'American' in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn't."

If you want to go to the source of the "misinformation" then try Obama's publisher - Dystel & Goderich agency and his author's bio.

Miriam Goderich edited the text of the bio; she is now a partner at the Dystel & Goderich agency, which lists Obama as one of its current clients.

"You're undoubtedly aware of the brouhaha stirred up by Breitbart about the erroneous statement in a client list Acton & Dystel published in 1991 (for circulation within the publishing industry only) that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me — an agency assistant at the time," Goderich wrote. "There was never any information given to us by Obama in any of his correspondence or other communications suggesting in any way that he was born in Kenya and not Hawaii. I hope you can communicate to your readers that this was a simple mistake and nothing more."