Obama cracks a birther joke

[sufrommich]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- It's that birther thing again.

President Barack Obama was at an Orlando sports bar, snapping a University of Florida Gators' sign, sipping a pint and working a crowd when he walked up to a table with five children. One adult points to one of the boys, 7-year-old Andre Wupperman of Orlando, and informs the president that the boy was born in Hawaii, the president's native state.

The president, delighted, greeted the boy with a "shaka" sign, the pinky and thumb gesture typical of Hawaiian culture. The boy gestured back.

"You were born in Hawaii?" the president said. Then he added teasingly: "You have a birth certificate?"


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[Walk away]

1. That's adorable! nt

[randome]

2. Cool. Here's the sign, in case anyone wants to know.

http://www.google.com/imgres?num=10&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=485&tbm=isch&tbnid=6P3rNQveK84i2M:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign&docid=YMVEl9lDhcR51M&imgurl=&w=220&h=147&ei=w-NLULu0BeP42QX83oDoBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&dur=1018&sig=106415036804199459274&page=1&tbnh=117&tbnw=171&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:158&tx=114&ty=59&vpx=234&vpy=104&hovh=117&hovw=176

[Blue Belle]

3. Nice!

I love President Obama...

[malaise]

4. Love it

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Now we begin to really humiliate the Birthers

It's a good move, and one we should all be taking whenever the opportunity arises. Ridicule them. Humiliate them. They're fools, and need to be shown as such in public. Reason has failed to persuade. Now they should be shamed.

[loyalsister]

14. Just wait til they start bashing his "citizenship" theme

It's a matter of citizenship to pay your taxes, give a damn about your neighbor's good health, etc...

[southernyankeebelle]

6. Now that is funny.

[Cha]

7. Sweet! I like what the AP writer said at the end of the piece..

"The patrons at Gator's Dockside, clearly aware of the discredited claims that Obama was not born in the United States, broke up laughing."

Thanks, sufrommich!

[Jennicut]

11. It is so idiotic that anyone believes in that birther stuff.

So glad to see people back him up. President Obama has had to put up with so much, but he still has a great sense of humor about it.

[Tennessee Gal]

8. This Obama guy is just horrible. He has no charisma and no charm.

Probably a liar, definitely not an American, a Muslim, a socialist, a Marxist all rolled into one.

At least that is what some people think.

[panader0]

9. When you shake the "shaka" you say "Cool head main t'ing bruddah"

I lived there 7th grade thro 12th ('68)

[treestar]

10. hahaha

[spanone]

12. k&r...

[bottomofthehill]

13. Do you think the President can work a trade

One Birth Certificate for one years Tax Returns?