Obama Campaign Helping Birthers Find A New Conspiracy-Passion: "Conceivers"

Well, you've really done it THIS time, Mr. President!  The Obama 2012 campaign announced today that you can buy a t-shirt or a coffee mug with the President's long-form birth certificate on it.

Very cute.  But, on the front, underneath the President's mug - in what can only be assumed to be very deliberate wording - is the once-ubiquitous phrase "MADE in the USA".  (Surely, friend Bruce Springsteen would have been OK with "BORN in the USA".)

Unfortunately, the long-form birth certificate only states where the then-future-President was BORN, not where he was "made".  I am not sure they have a state document for THAT - but, then again, there is nothing in the Constitution about where Stanley and Barack Sr. were that night(?) in 1960 when Barack Jr. was conceived.

Newly-minted "Conceivers" - Donald Trump did say he would remain involved - will acknowledge that the conception issue does not rise to the pre-requisite level that birthplace does;  however, they will frame it as an(other) issue of the President's veracity and transparency.

Unfortunately, given that Obama's parents are both deceased, the Conceivers are going to need to be very (too) creative to compile their evidence. (Let us not think about that, shall we?)  Instead, they will use their tried-and-true tactic of trying to put the burden on the President to prove where he was conceived.  (Again, paging Donald Trump.)

P.S. Without endorsing - either the Conceivers or the Conceived - here is the link to find out more about the mug ($15 or more) and the t-shirt ($25 or more): http://bit.ly/ieQHX5



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