Making fun of Obama birthers

There’s a fringe political movement of birthers: people who question whether Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and whether he’s a natural born citizen eligible to be president.

Don’t miss Robb Allen’s brilliant BREAKING NEWS!!!! Shocking proof that Obama was not born in Hawaii. Dan Rather wasn’t available for comment.

Random Nuclear Strikes asks the birthers, what are you going to do even if you’re right?

The campaign for John McCain, who faced similar challenges about his eligibility based on his being born overseas to military parents, investigated the claims about Obama. McCain’s team found the claims dubious and the people promoting them incompetent:

But the flawed conception of the many “birther” lawsuits, coupled with the inexperience and foul-ups of “birther” lawyers, have only fed the frenzy over Obama’s legitimacy to serve as president of the United States. A survey of the lawsuits filed against Obama reveals a reliance on widely debunked rumors, bogus stories sourced back to web sites, affidavits from “experts” who refuse to provide credentials or even their real names, and frequent and blatant misunderstandings of basic constitutional law. The dismissal of “birther” lawsuits has allowed conspiracy theorists to believe that the information in those suits is accurate–a belief that manifests itself in the emails, phone calls, and town hall meeting rants that have pushed the theories into the mainstream media and the halls of Congress.

While they ruled out any chance of the “birther” lawsuits holding up in court, lawyers for the McCain campaign did check into the rumors about Obama’s birth and the assertions made by Berg and others. “To the extent that we could, we looked into the substantive side of these allegations,” said Potter. “We never saw any evidence that then-Senator Obama had been born outside of the United States. We saw rumors, but nothing that could be sourced to evidence. There were no statements and no documents that suggested he was born somewhere else. On the other side, there was proof that he was born in Hawaii. There was a certificate issued by the state’s Department of Health, and the responsible official in the state saying that he had personally seen the original certificate. There was a birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser, which would be very difficult to invent or plant 47 years in advance.”