Obama's birth certificate

Yes, I'm still getting emails about Obama's birth certificate.

One of the more interesting conspiracy theories about President-elect Obama is that he was secretly born in Africa, then apparently sneaked into the United States (in a banana crate?), and now is pretending to be a natural born American, born in Hawaii, when he's really a secret Muslim African who can't be president because the Constitution requires the president to have been born in the United States.

Only problem? Obama's American birth certificate was made public long ago. Snopes has it. And Snopes also has the birth announcement from the local Hawaii paper back when Obama was born. Very sneaky of the Obamas to have a child in Africa, yet simultaneously place a birth announcement in the Hawaiian paper on the same day, nearly five decades ago - in the pre-Internet era, no less - on the off chance that their child might grow up to be president and require an American-born citizenship.

What's interesting to me is that this is the kind of crazy stuff people claim the left-wing blogs do. We don't. The top left-wing blogs didn't jump on the story, at all, about whether Palin's baby was really her own. And the one salacious story we did jump on, that Palin's first child was born 8 months after she was married - eh hem - turned out to be true.