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Bicoastal

(12,645 posts)
Sun Sep 9, 2012, 11:39 AM Sep 2012

OBAMA: "You have a birth certificate?"

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

CBS: Obama makes birth certificate joke

The president stopped into Gator's Dockside restaurant in Orlando and schmoozed with families who were enjoying dinner.

At one large table of 10, which included five kids, a woman pointed to one of the children, seven-year-old Andre Wupperman, and said, "He was born in Hawaii."

Mr. Obama stopped, flashed a Hawaiian hand sign and used the opportunity to poke fun at an issue he wasn't poking fun at when his critics were hammering him about it.

(snip)

"You have a birth certificate?"

The table erupted in laughter.


Best way to deal with this non-issue. The more trivial it seems, the less people will take the "Birthers" seriously.

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OBAMA: "You have a birth certificate?" (Original Post) Bicoastal Sep 2012 OP
Taking "birthers" seriously is a sign of severe mental illness. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #1
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