Obama team offers birth certificate coffee mugs, T-shirts

Get your official Barack Obama "Made in the U.S.A." coffee mug, while they last.

Obama's 2012 campaign is mocking the "birther movement" by offering coffee mugs and T-shirts to commemorate the president's release last month of his "long form" birth certificate -- and seeking to raise campaign cash while they're at it.

A photcopy of the birth certificate adorns the mug, along with a picture of Obama and the label, "Made in the U.S.A."

Yours for a donation of $15 or more.

There are also birth certificate T-shirts available on the Democratic Party website -- limited edition, starting at $25 each, with the birth certificate stenciled on the back.

This e-mail is going out to Obama supporters from Deputy Campaign Manager Julianna Smoot:

"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: https://donate.barackobama.com/USA-Made-Mug.

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"

From: USA Today