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Happy Birther Day, Mr. President

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(Aug. 4) -- Conspiracy theory frenzy is peaking as President Obama celebrates his 48th birthday today.
The latest broadside from the "birthers" -- those who contend Obama can't be president because there's no proof he's a natural-born citizen -- is a purported Kenyan birth certificate. Orly Taitz, a lawyer who has filed a variety of suits challenging Obama's citizenship, released a photo of the document -- which was immediately dismissed as a fraud even by the president's opponents. "I believe this is likely a forgery," Karl Rove declared -- not quite definitively -- in a Twitter post.
The Washington Independent also notes that some in the birther movement are getting fed up with Taitz. She didn't help herself by spending much of her time during an MSNBC interview Monday bickering with the co-anchors. The video of Taitz's rant is all over the Web.
Doubts about Obama's citizenship go far beyond Taitz and the other hardcore birthers. A new Research 2000 poll shows 28 percent of Republicans think Obama was not born in the U.S. Among respondents in Southern states, only 47 percent believe he's a natural-born American. Of course, a Rasmussen survey done two years ago found 35 percent of Democrats believed President Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks. So, RealClearPolitics correspondent David Paul Kuhn, writes, both parties have their fanatics.
Here's an indication of how bizarre this has become: Chuck Norris is trying to cast himself as the voice of reason in the debate. In an open letter to the president on Townhall.com, he admits it's "a bit of a groundless stretch" to think Obama wasn't born in Hawaii. So, Norris asks, why not just release "your original birth certificate" and prove the skeptics wrong?
Health Care and Clunkers
The president's birthday schedule includes lunch with Senate Democrats -- with health care reform and more "cash for clunkers" funding sure to be on the agenda.
The White House has issued a video that's a direct response to the Drudge Report. Drudge ran a video headlined: "Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will 'Eliminate' Private Insurance.” The White House's Linda Douglass says that's simply not true and accuses reform opponents of trying to scare people.
As Senate Democrats try to line up enough Republican support to pump $2 billion more into the auto incentive program, Politics Daily's Patricia Murphy notes a Hummer H-3 is among the new vehicles drivers can buy if they trade in an old gas guzzler.
Noted in Passing
A beautiful trailblazer died over the weekend. Naomi Sims, known as the first black supermodel, was 61. She made history as the first black cover girl on Ladies' Home Journal in 1968. A year later, she was featured on the cover of LIFE magazine. The Huffington Post takes a look back at a remarkable life in pictures.
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2009-08-04 10:51:06
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JSH 151

05:56 PMAug 04 2009

Mad Angry1 05:50 PMAug 04 2009 GOP men when we are done we will take your jobs, your house, and your wives from YOU!!..I wouldn't want their wives.... so many of their HUSBAND LAW MAKER RepubliKKKrooks are in the men's room tap, tap, tapping for other men, or they're looking for women boys, or.. maybe even SHEEP ? Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww! lol I guess that's part of the initiation, so they can call themselves THE PARTY OF FAMILY VALUES

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DMM RDM

05:55 PMAug 04 2009

Bush, Rove and Chenney are not in the house anymore. We said "no" to fear based politics. Yeah for President Obama and good for you Bill Clinton. Great day for the US all around.

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GuillermoGman

05:55 PMAug 04 2009

That's what the Republican party is reduced to nowadays; a bunch of idiots complaining about Obama's birth certificate. What a bunch of losers.

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hateyakneegrows

05:55 PMAug 04 2009

KKK=NAACP??....THE DIFFERENCE IS "THE HOOD"...

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Evan Barthold

05:55 PMAug 04 2009

jtonkins KISS THE DEMOCRATIC A## YOU RIGHT WINT NUTJOB SACK OF MONKEY S###

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JimLatp

05:55 PMAug 04 2009

KH33RCR29--------BTW princess. If you are so thin skinned this may not be the place for you.

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Map1246

05:54 PMAug 04 2009

Ed: Barry has NOT provided copies of his birth certificate. Why? What is he hiding?

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Anamchara333

05:54 PMAug 04 2009

A very unhappy birthday to you. May all your wishes never come true. May you eat up so much cake that you get a belly ache...A very unhappy birthday to you.

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RX25

05:54 PMAug 04 2009

I think Seth MacFarlane who created "Family Guy", got inspiration from President Obama when he created Stewie Griffin. Mr. Obama must have created his mind control device as a baby and used it on Hawaiian doctors to create a false birth certificate; and Kenyan doctors to forget he was born in their country. He then used it on the people of Illinois to get elected as senator; his plot to take over the world is taking shape. He then used his mind control on the most of the US, thinking they see a document saying "birth certificate" on the border with hiis name that we think is clearly . Only the birthers were too smart to fall for the ploy. Now he is President of the United States no telling what other catastrophic inventions he created as an infant to take over the rest of the world. HeHe birthers are a worse joke than this joke of a message.

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RussCHarvey

05:54 PMAug 04 2009

Yeah, well, about 10% of Americans belive that the SUN revolves around the EARTH, too.

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