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Obama Campaign Selling Birth Certificate

Posted: May 22, 2011

President Obama's reelection campaign is turning a conspiracy theory that had long dogged the president into a snarky fundraising tool, selling merchandise depicting Obama and his complete long form birth certificate.

For a $25 donation, you can get a t-shirt that shows a smiling Obama above the phrase, "Made in the U.S.A" on the front, and the president's long-form birth certificate on the back. The campaign is also giving away coffee mugs with the same design scheme to supporters who make a $15 contribution.

Deputy Campaign Manager Julianna Smoot wrote in an email announcing the new items that the campaign felt it was best to make light of the birther controversy so the president could go back to focusing on more important issues.

"There's really no way to make this stuff completely go away," Smoot wrote. "The only thing we can do is laugh at it -- and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke." "If the facts can't make these ridiculous smears go away, we can at least have a little fun with it," she added.

The new merch was announced the same week that a book questioning Obama's citizenship, Where's the Birth Certificate?, went on sale.

Obama had long been hounded by skeptics who claimed he was not born in the U.S., and thus ineligible to serve as president. The furor reached a fever pitch this spring when pseudo-presidential candidate and reality TV host Donald Trump repeatedly questioned Obama's legitimacy to hold office, and as polls began to show, as many as half of all GOP primary voters thought Obama was born outside America.

Obama held a press conference in late April to release his long form birth certificate, saying that the nation had more pressing matters to attend to than sideshows hawked by "carnival barkers."

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No thanks. Total waste of money, and tacky.nm - Citizen

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nm

Great Christmas present for my tea party in-laws - nm

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Yeah it's always a good idea to insult your in-laws - nm

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What are you talking about? They have been demanding to see it - for what seems like forever

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and now they can have as many as their hearts desire. Careful what you ask for. It would make some wonderful wallpaper for an office.

Chances are if they are "tea party in-law" - see message

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They have not been asking for one. And since these have just come out, it's impossible they have been asking one for "what seems like forever".

Nice try.

Why'd he spend MILLIONS instead of $12.50? - ActionsLouderThanWords

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If Obama had a valid birth certificate all along, why did he spend MILLIONS in defense legal fees in court cases over a few years instead of spending $12.50 to order a copy from the State of Hawaii and just releasing it to the public a few years ago?

This answers its own question: This "birth certificate" is FRAUDULENT, as has been brought up MANY TIMES already (listing of African instead of Negro, etc. etc.).

actual facts - tam

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Do you have data showing he spent millions or is that another factoid. I think he did the right thing,ignoring the unprecedented and politically motivated attack for so long. I want my leader to be focusing on issues, not spending his time responding to ridiculous theories. Anyone can make any claim they like, no matter how preposterous. Intelligent adults know to just walk on.

Fraudulent or not, the BC marketing idea is going to - raise more millions in campaign funds

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for the Obama ticket. I think whoever came up with this brilliant idea found the perfect response to the folks who generated all those now defunct actions that created the need for that legal defense fund in the first place. It is just phase two of "you lose" in this hate-driven impotent campaign strategy. Anyway, you should be happy that the Obama camp has found a way to keep that issue alive and well for you to exploit some more, all the while continuing to showcase the stupidity of those who continue to carry this torch. Gotta love it.

If he would donate the proceeds to reducing - the deficit I would say

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he has finally made a good decision. Yeah, I know, he will address the deficit when pigs fly. Instead, he and the Dems want to make themselves look like the rear end of their mascot.

Obviously their taste is all in the their mouths. But we already knew that.

all that is missing from the t shirt is "nanny - nanny boo boo!" and a big

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tongue sticking out. Would be right in line with the maturity that came up with the idea in the first place, and the maturity of those who will undoubtedly buy it. And hopefully will wear them when Obama goes home in 2012. Maybe they can have it made into a banner to tack on the side of the U-Haul.

The O camp has never had the need to borrow from - GOP playbook.

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Your post says a lot more about your maturity level than anything else. You are just ticked because they have turned the endless attempts to destroy the president into a distinct advantage. The hate has backfired which is very much as it should be.

I think this will backfire! It's childish. Didn't Obama state - Backwards Typist

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posting his BC would end this once and for all? Now they're MARKETING a T-shirt with this stuff? Who's the one that keeps bringing it up now?

It's tacky and it's childish. Maybe the team will laugh all the way to the bank, but it definitely does not show maturity.

Absolutely. The grownups in this were (and are) the - BC conspiracists sm

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who brought this down on themselves. We will just ignore the diehards in the corner yelling fraud, fraud, fraud at the long form, the Corsis cashing in down at the local bookstore in preparation for their next round of courtroom antics and the hordes of customers buying his pack of lies up by the dozen, then turning around and offering it as a free gifts on their websites in a Herculean effort to push it above the 100 rank number.

I am not ticked at all. I am just amazed that - adults would come up

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with this ridiculous "gotcha" junior high level fund raising idea, and that other supposed adults would defend it, and not only that, BUY the crap.

The O camp actually knocked the bottom out of the barrel with this one. Who knew they would sink so far? Not me, certainly. But they proved me wrong.

As did you with your GOP snipe.

This will come back to bite them just like so many other idiotic ideas have. Can't wait for all the pictures during the campaign with far left nutjobs in their little t-shirts running around....and that same t-shirt imposed on Obama. Yeah, they's the American president running for re-election in his na-na-na-na t shirt. Maybe he can wear it to his next meeting with Netanyahu. Maybe he can give them out as party favors in a grab bag at the G8. LOL. Are you serious?????

Recognizing the value of the youth vote did not escape - the O camp last time around

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and it ended up serving them quite well. Campaign strategies need to appeal to all age groups and no matter how hard you try to disparage this, the sale of BC paraphernalia will undoubtedly accomplish what it is intended to do. In terms of tacky and juvenile, the birthers cornered that market many moons ago. Nonetheless, I would like to express my sincere thanks to them for making all this possible. They played a fools game and lost. Que sera sera.

Speaking of taste, how are you doing with that - mouthful of sour grapes?

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Just sayin.

No sour grapes here. Just when I think they - have reached the bottom

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of the barrel, they knock the bottom out and keep digging.

Actually, I think this will prove to be one of the BIGGEST mistakes they have ever made, if they follow through with it. Oh I hope they do. I can't wait to see it photoshopped onto Obama during the campaign...running for election in junior high level snipe t-shirt. Heck, if I was the Republican running against him, I would buy it and wear it everywhere I went!! LOL.

No evidence - mbmt

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There is no evidence to support the claim that President Obama spent millions in defense legal fees to prevent the long form of his birth certificate from being released. There is also no evidence that his birth certificate is fraudulent.

Sorry, plenty of evidence that he spent money on defense legal fees - Backwards Typist

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and plenty in his first year of presidency defending his right to not show it. I forget the website since I did not bookmark it, but there were at least 6 lawsuits, if not more, defending this and guess who his attorney was?...Elena Kagan.

Not millions - mbmt

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There is no proof that President Obama personally spent "millions" on defense legal fees to defend his right not to show his birth certificate.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/apr/12/donald-trump/donald-trump-claims-obama-has-spent-2-million-lega/

It appears you may be right.... - apparently taxpayer

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money paid for it. The Justice Department defended him. All there to see on the supreme court docket site, for the ones that made it that far. That does not take into consideration other suits filed at the state level. Probably the Justice Department defended them too. So it was not on HIS dime, it was on OURS.

Now if that doesn't make your blood boil. This was an issue that was raised prior to him getting the job, and he should not have used the Justice Department to defend those suits.

Just when I did not think I could POSSIBLY think any less of him...guess what. I found out I CAN.

Apparently you did not read the whole thing - mbmt

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Did you read this?

Federal attorneys are paid a salary by the taxpayers, and they do not charge their "client" -- in this case, the president -- fees for representation. If these attorneys weren't working on birth certificate cases, they'd be working on some other case for the same salary.

The fact remains that the issue was brought - up before he was

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President, so he should not use the Justice Department to defend it. But then, he shouldn't have instructed the Justice Department not to defend a law that is on the books either...nor should he have sent our pilots to bomb libya without consent of Congress.

It should not surprise me that he would use the Justice Department to defend himself when they SHOULD have been doing that something else you refer to.

The Justice Department - mbmt

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President Obama is an American citizen. Are you really saying that President Obama has no right to defend himself against lawsuits and that he should not do that?

The three strategic goals listed in the departmentâ��s 2008 Citizensâ�� Report are: prevent terrorism and promote the nationâ��s security; prevent crime, enforce federal laws and represent the rights and interests of the American people; and ensure the fair and efficient administration of justice.

Well, that might mean something if Obama - had not instructed them

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NOT to enfore a particular federal law on the books. So...that argument does not hold water. And since the lawsuit was about something that was initiated while he was a private citizen and not yet President, just because it came to the court system after he was President...he should not have used the Justice Department to defend himself, he should have done it privately. However, he didn't. Not surprising, because nearly everything he does is all about him and not about the country. Like swearing to uphold and defend the Constitiution, and then deliberately circumventing it...and then, flaunting the strategic goals for the JD you stated by ordering them NOT to enforce a federal law.

If you want to ignore all that and even defend it, fine. I choose not to.

Strawman argument. WHY did it go to court at ALL? - FannieMae

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This is a diversion from the POINT: If Barack Obama had really been born in Hawaii as he claims, why did ANY of these cases go to court -- or even get past the filing stage -- at all? Why didn't he just pay the small fee (12.50) to the State of Hawaii to obtain a copy of his BC and then release it into the public domain? Instead, LAWYERS GOT INVOLVED! And this thing DRAGGED ON FOR YEARS until he FINALLY releases his "BC" just recently? That doesn't pass the smell test!!

Fannie - mbmt

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Why should he appease people who are out to discredit him? The majority of us believe he is an American citizen.

Google the lawsuits that were brought - in court. Do you think

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those were defended for free? Have you checked what a lawyer makes these days, especially one in that kind of a case? Unless you are suggesting that he used a lawyer that WE paid for? In that case, I would be verrryyyy upset.

misplaced rage - tam

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Justice Dept was responding to law suits filed by crazy dentists. That is the way the legal system works here. You don't just ignore law suits. Your anger should be directed towards the people who wasted Justice Dept's time by filing the suits. But no.

LOL. Nobody is raging, except perhaps you. - I find it laughable

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that you are worried about the waste of the Justice Department's time and not worried at all about the deficit or Obama's and the Democrat's complete failure in dealing with it. Complete failure in addressing spending in any real way. Complete failure in transparency that he promised. Failure to create the jobs he promised.

Address any one of those issues, and convince me why I should vote for him. I am an Independent; I don't have a party horse in this race. I am looking at the JOB Obama has done...and frankly, it stinks. He is not a bad person...he is a lousy President. I would say that if he was repub, libertarian, independent, or white, or purple with pink spots.

The fact IS, he is a lousy President, and the Democrats, so far, are LOUSY in addressing ANY of the problems facing this country. That is a fact, and regurgitating attacks on "pubs" does not address it either.

Do you really not care about your country or where it is headed? Really??

I so agree with you - mbmt

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The birther issue was such a huge waste of time all the way around.

All the more reason to memoralize it on - T-shirts, right? LOL. nm

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nm

Kinda sorta like books, which outlive tshirts - by a long shot, huh?

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Bet the tshirt sales surpass the books by a margin of at least 10,000 to 1.

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