Simple Answers to Simple Questions, Birther Edition

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| Mon Aug. 3, 2009 7:05 AM PDT

WorldNetDaily, which has been riding the birther traffic train all the way to the bank for the past few months, has a document that purports to be President Barack Obama's Kenyan birth certificate. They ask: "Is this really smoking gun of Obama's Kenyan birth?"

No. No, it isn't.

(Simple Answers to Simple Questions is an Atrios trademark.)

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