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The Birthers’ Last Gasp

by Paul Werdel
05.16.12 | 4:41 am

It having been proven (again, and again, and again) that President Obama is indeed a citizen of these United States of America, what’s left of the ‘birther’ brigade has been getting busy inventing other alternate histories. But not everyone on the lunatic fringe is happy about it.

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