Obama Birth Certificate T-Shirts Rolled Out By President's Reelection Campaign

WASHINGTON – You've seen President Barack Obama's birth certificate. Now you can wear it.

The Obama campaign is selling T-shirts on its website that show Obama's face on the front along with the words "Made in the USA."

On the back is an image of the president's long-form birth certificate from Hawaii — the one the White House finally produced in April in an attempt to squelch the "birthers" who claim Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, and therefore ineligible to be president.

Starting price for the T-shirts — described on the website as "limited edition" — is $25.

An email blasted to supporters on Wednesday highlights newly-rolled out "Obama birth certificate" mugs in calling for cash.

Below, the full message dispatched by the Obama campaign:

Friend --

Let me introduce you to Jerome Corsi.

This week he released a new book that the publisher says will be a bestseller "of historic proportions."

The title is "Where's the Birth Certificate?" -- yes, really.

Corsi's work 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!

FactCheck.org called Corsi's work "a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods."

There's really no way to make this stuff completely go away. The only thing we can do is laugh at it -- and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke.

So let's just do this -- get your Obama birth certificate mug here:

Last year, the President said, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead."

This is about as close as we can get.

If the facts can't make these ridiculous smears go away, we can at least have a little fun with it.

And then we'll get back to the important work of supporting the President as he tackles real problems like high gas prices, the deficit, and unemployment.

Thanks,

Julianna

Julianna Smoot
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America

P.S. -- Mug not your thing? How about a T-shirt?

Comments

[js0860]

06:12 PM on 06/24/2011

I don't care where he was born. Get him OUT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=gQD9IaGoLWk

[Cheri]

01:12 PM on 05/24/2011

I ordered mine, PDQ!!!

[Mark Gillar]

12:10 PM on 05/30/2011

None of has seen President Obama's birth certificate. We've seen a computer generated version of what might be his birth certificate. It has actually raised more questions if anything.

The file at whitehouse.gov contains wording that has been kerned. Not the form itself, but the blanks that would have been filled in with a 1961 typewriter that obviously didn't have the ability
to Kern. In short, typewriters put the same amount of space between all letters. Computers do not. Listen for yourself.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/markgillar/2011/05/28/jerome-corsi--wheres-the-birth-certificate

[cshae89546]

07:24 AM on 05/21/2011

Sorry Lea4388, but you are wrong. 13483 in NOT exclusive to documents produced in the White House and that is NOT staed antwhere in the order, Whya constitutes records under the preview of the Archivist is defined here specifically. http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html

[HawaiiSteve]

01:48 PM on 05/20/2011

In light of the fact that we in Hawaii KNOW the President was born here, and we've told all you a million times that the BC is legit (and believe me, our former Republican Governor would have given anything for it not to be so) it becomes self-evident that birthers are:

1) Closet rac ist who just can't stand to see a black man in the White House, and/or;

2) Stu pid beyond all belief.

Step up and tell us birthers, are you ignorant or prejudice?

[js0860]

06:15 PM on 06/24/2011

Not quite sure how you KNOW it, but why isn't a publicly available copy of the birth certificate on file?

Anyone can go to Trenton NJ and get a copy of mine; it is a public record.

Now don't get me wrong, he is bad for the country WHERE EVER he was born.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=gQD9IaGoLWk

[Cherie Lyon]

09:54 AM on 05/20/2011

Obama's campaign crew are pretty inventive - when I saw this, I laughed harder than when I saw the Palin toilet paper ad.
(I wonder if she gets royalties for that?)

[bcrnbs2]

01:46 AM on 05/20/2011

well less hope this sells as many as the new obama general motore volt..
which has sold only 1700 sence their introduction....

a long way from the 1 million obama said would sell right off the bat...

[Puzzlr]

07:07 PM on 05/19/2011

Gotta check out the merch.

[Lawrence D Jahn]

06:50 PM on 05/19/2011

I have a copy of his original birth certificate and it says in 2 places he was born in Kenya. If you'd like a copy of it, just email me at [e-mail] I'll be happy to send it to you. He was registered in Honolulu but it says the institution/hospital was name unknow in Kenya and that the birthplace was Kenya as per his grandmother on the bottom line.

[Cheri]

09:58 AM on 05/26/2011

there has been a lot of creativity in birth certificates for him. How did you verify the accuracy of that one? did you have access to the Kenyan newspaper records? it really doesn't seem too unlikely that this extremely proud grandmother had one made up for her American grand baby!

[ljc]

06:34 PM on 05/19/2011

My mug is on the way.

giggle

[demimckingwoodtx]

11:20 PM on 05/19/2011

So is mine, I can't wait!

[scott7841]

05:10 PM on 05/19/2011

I just love it...I post links to videos of the Obamas making statements and the response I got was they were editied. Edited how.........someone made their lips move? Someone did a voice over? Typical hardline Obama supporter denies what they see and hear with their own eyes and ears.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

05:35 PM on 05/19/2011

Edited because it was clipped out. Snopes.com details how this was done. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslimfaith.asp

[CessnaDriverI72]

06:02 PM on 05/19/2011

He just had a slip of the tongue, and you can see him wince a bit just after he said it.

"Is our children learning?"

Et al.

[ljc]

06:34 PM on 05/19/2011

Thank you....I had never seen the entire clip.

[Nonpartay]

05:45 PM on 05/19/2011

Videos can always be edited. The fright-wing does it all the time. On Faux Noise, they've put up videos of different (and bigger) crowds than the one they're "reporting" on. Andrew Breitbart edited all kinds of videos that pretended to show something that wasn't actually happening in the ACORN case and Shirley Sherrod's. It's the right's specialty, really, since they don't have any good ideas or accomplishments to brag about. The only thing they have is to persecute the president and try to make black people look bad to scare whites into voting for conservatives even though it's against their own self-interest to do that. Go figure.

[scott7841]

10:50 AM on 05/26/2011

Wasnt it CBS news and Dan Rather that created a ficticious military document to slander Bush's military record? Sorry, ACORN was busted and people prosecuted and the organization lost its funding under the ACORN name so if it didnt happen the Obama and the Feds just punished innocent people.

The only thing they have is to persecute the president and try to make black people look bad to scare whites into voting for conservati­ves even though it's against their own self-inter­est to do that. Go figure.

I knew you would get the race card in there somewhere............It the standard Liberal fall back when they cant argue with facts.

[clarkerella73]

04:51 PM on 05/19/2011

How embarassing this is for our country, our president treating his presidenancy like a three ring circus. If he is so willing to plaster his birth certificate all over t-shirts and mugs, then why wasnt he so willing to prove his citizenship and show his birth certificate two years ago when this became an issue? Obama is a sad sad man if you have to stoop to this level to help get
re-elected.

[Nonpartay]

05:25 PM on 05/19/2011

What is embarrassing for this country is the whole birther issue in the first place, as if President Obama were some sort of foreigner who somehow sneaked into the White House illegally. He did show his birth certificate. You have been so brainwashed you can't even see the truth when it's right in front of your face. The original birth certificate he showed was the legal proof of citizenship. He didn't need to show the long-form as it had no fundamental difference from the first document the State of Hawaii Health Department had already issued. What is wrong with you? You should be really pissed off to be so played and used by the fright-wing propaganda machine. That's what's really destroying the unity of our country. I've never seen anything like this before in my rather long life. Let's hope some eyes are finally opened and we can get past this very thinly veiled racism. It's so destructive!

This would never have been an issue if he weren't black. Face it. It never has before. Even McCain, who actually was not born in the United States, was given a pass. But not President Obama even though he was born in the United States. The hypocrisy is so outrageous and disgusting, I'm simply horrified at the level of blindness this shows we have in this country.

[cheesecat]

06:38 PM on 05/19/2011

F&f. I have to pry myself away, but I wanted to say "what Nonpartay said." Ta!

[scott7841]

10:55 AM on 05/26/2011

Your knowledge / lack thereof of law is showing........McCain was born on a US Miltiary base which is LEGALLY Considered US territory and therefore McCain is a US citizen elligible to run for president.....NO PASS GIVEN.....FACT

Once again, the liberal race card is played because if you cant defend someones credentials and accomplishments throw the race card out. It as old and tired as your BUSH DID IT MONTRA

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

05:38 PM on 05/19/2011

He did show his birth certificate years ago. You people refused to accept it. You refused it when the McCain, Clinton, CIA, FBI, the federal elections commission people all said he was born in Hawaii. You refused to accept it when the state of Hawaii on numerous occasions said he was born there. You refused to accept that certificates of live birth are birth certificates as defined by every state health agency because there are two types of birth certificate: certificate of live birth and certificate of fetal death.

[trespanieli]

04:25 PM on 05/19/2011

I'd love to see "mug" shots of Bush and Cheney in my post office.

[Mary Scirdinsky]

03:50 PM on 05/19/2011

I wrote a post but it did not get printed. I did not use any bad language nor say anything derogotory. It was a very logical question. Why isn't the new BC shown in its full form. It shoule have 2 signatures at the bottom.

[Nonpartay]

05:26 PM on 05/19/2011

OMG, will it ever stop?

[cheesecat]

05:55 PM on 05/19/2011

Not while Obama stubbornly continues to be black, unfortunately.

[adrock319]

05:35 PM on 05/19/2011

maybe cause you can't spell???? just a thought lol!!

[Mary Scirdinsky]

03:42 PM on 05/19/2011

If the long for BC that was produced is a copy of the original in Hawaii, then why don't we see the bottom where Dr. Leo Bernstein, and Charles Bennett signed. Dr. Bernstein was head of the Dept. of Health and Bennet was the Registrar in l961. These 2 signed the BC's for the Nordyke Twins but you don't see those names on the one Obama put out. He had the current registrar sign it.

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

04:40 PM on 05/19/2011

Because the one Obama shown is the one Hawaii provided and whenever you request your bc from your state of birth (or if the state law allows it for American children born out of the US whose parents had the state as their primary residence) or the state department the current official in charge signs the birth certificate since all you get is a copy.

Have you ever asked for your birth certificate in the past fifty years?

[Mary Scirdinsky]

04:49 PM on 05/19/2011

If its a photo copy of the original then it should be in full, with the 2 signatures of Dr. Bernstein and Charles Bennett. The 2 people signed the BC for the Nordyke Twins, so why don't we see it on BO's Yes I do have my original BC, I have both the hospital and the state. I have had both since I was born in 1939.

[Nonpartay]

05:28 PM on 05/19/2011

If you were born in 1939, you should know better than to fall for all this crap. You're old enough to have grown up by now. I'm just 7 years younger than you are and I know better. I can see propaganda at work here. Why can't you?

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

05:43 PM on 05/19/2011

Once again you have no idea what happens when you request your birth certificate. They do not send you a photocopy. They send you a verified copy with relevant info signed by the current official in charge because the copy has to be authorized and have a date stamp. Birth certificates change their form every few decades and even a state will have multiple versions or just one which is called the short form but since it is the only one it's what everyone gets.

Hospital you mean the one with the footprints? That is not a real birth certificate. It's a novelty item.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Dec/22/ln/hawaii812220320.html

Stop being an idiot!

[aearthling59]

03:24 PM on 05/19/2011

Are they going to have the Kenyan coastal hospital one on a T shirt too??

[tiredofthesameoldstuff]

04:55 PM on 05/19/2011

No why they would have a fake done by Oily Taint? You have to go to world nut daily for that.

[Nonpartay]

05:29 PM on 05/19/2011

::snicker:: F&F

[Nonpartay]

05:41 PM on 05/19/2011

You do realize that back in 1961, they had mainly prop planes and that it would have taken this very young woman who was in the 9th month of her pregnancy, at least 8 stops up and down and probably at least 36 hours of flying time to get from Hawaii to Kenya, right? You must also realize that they would never have allowed her on the plane in that condition. You must also realize that your conspiracy theory is a load of crap. Why do you persist in your error? What 18-year-old white girl from America would fly to Kenya to have a baby back in 1961? Are you kidding me?