More Birthers

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Pictured above is a ZOMG KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!eleventy! that is THE! DEFINITIVE! PROOF! that President Barack Obama is ineligible for the American presidency.

Except, you know, totally not.

Conservablogger Doug Mataconis points out several notable problems with the document here, like, for example, how the birth certificate is said to be issued by the Republic of Kenya nearly a full year before the Republic of Kenya actually existed.

WeDidIt, at Demographic Underground, notes: "The certificate number is given as "47,044" which is remarkable considering that Barack Hussein Obama was 47 years old when he was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States." And many people have noted that E.F. Lavender, the typed name appearing where the signature of the registrar should be, is the name of a popular detergent in Kenya.

I noticed that the date the birth certificate was issued, February 17, 1964, is the same date the US Supreme Court affirmed "one man, one vote" in the Westberry vs. Sanders case, ruling that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population, an important ruling in the ongoing partisan (and frequently race-based) gerrymandering that defines our national politics. The famous quote from the decision is one that might be appealing to a liberal hoaxer: "No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a choice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, they must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined."

The Birthers are, methinks, being taken for a ride by someone who's laughing hir ass off somewhere.