We've said it before, and we fear we'll say it again: False questions about President Obama's citizenship won't die.

This time, the claim comes, surprisingly, from a prominent Republican and possible Obama challenger: Mike Huckabee.

The former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate told a New York City radio station that Obama's foreign policy stems from his "having grown up in Kenya," once a colony of Great Britain.

Citing Obama's "perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather," Huckabee said Obama "probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather." Huckabee cited the Mau Mau uprising against the British, which included the detention of Obama's grandfather.

Obama's father was Kenyan, but the president was born in Hawaii in 1961. Obama has said he didn't visit Kenya until 1987.

In recent weeks, Huckabee has criticized the so-called "birther" movement as erroneous and damaging to the Republican Party.

The executive director of Huckabee's political action committee told the Associated Press that the former governor misspoke.

"When the governor mentioned he wanted to know more about the president, he wasn't talking about the president's place of birth -- the governor believes the president was born in Hawaii," Hogan Gidley said. "The governor would, however, like to know more about where President Obama's liberal policies come from and what else the president plans to do to this country -- as do most Americans." Gidley said Huckabee meant to reference Obama's childhood in Indonesia, where he lived from the ages of 5 to 10. Gidley didn't explain the connection to the Mau Mau uprising.

Huckabee has not decided on whether he will challenge Obama in 2012.

For what it's worth, Huckabee's theorizing about Obama's view of British imperialism isn't new -- conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza advanced a similar thesis in a book called The Roots of Obama's Rage.