What's the best way for President Obama to commemorate banishing The Donald and his R-rated birther rhetoric to the outer reaches of network TV syndication hell? Merchandising, of course! After all, that's where the real money is made.
If you donate $15 or more to Obama's reelection campaign, you can receive your own limited edition 2012 Made In The USA mug, featuring Obama's birth certificate on the back. If you donate $25 or more, you can get a 2012 Made In The USA t-shirt, also featuring the birth certificate. It's nice to see Obama's team having some fun with the whole birth certificate nonsense which had given them such a headache a month ago. We hope they keep going with the idea—it doesn't take much of a leap to go from mugs and t-shirts to coloring books, breakfast cereal, and flame throwers! But don't expect a birth certificate on a mug to satisfy everyone.
Obama For America Deputy Campaign Manager Julianna Smoot points us to Jerome Corsi, whose new book is "Where's the Birth Certificate?"—it is a "greatest-hits reel of delusions, ranging from 9/11 conspiracies to claiming that there is an infinite supply of oil in the Earth's core. In 2008, he published a book about Barack Obama claiming, among other things, that he (a) is a secret Muslim; (b) is secretly anti-military; (c) secretly dealt drugs; and (d) secretly supported terrorist actions when he was eight years old. So many secrets!" She says the new merchandising is the best way to mock such conspiracy theorists—at least until science finds a way to stamp a birth certificate on a man's forehead.
