"The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama."
According to the article, the theory that Obama was born in Kenya "first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama's citizenship.'"
The second article was published by the Telegraph, a British paper, that stated: "An anonymous email circulated by supporters of Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama's main rival for the party's nomination, thrust a new allegation into the national spotlight - that he had not been born in Hawaii."