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Opinion: Yet another wrinkle in the birther dispute

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Just as the birther frenzy over President Obama’s ‘fake’ birth certificate and his eligibility to be commander in chief was dying (much too late, I might add), another detail surfaced today that may give the reality-deniers a recharge.

Obama’s MySpace page lists the president’s age as 52 years old. Hawaii, the state of Obama’s birth (or alleged birth, per the conspiracy theorists), just celebrated the 50th anniversary of its statehood. So if Myspace is right, Obama was born when Hawaii was a U.S. territory, not a state.

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Oh no. And it begins again.

A low-on-the-totem-pole White House staffer is most likely in charge of updating the president’s MySpace and Facebook pages (though Facebook is correct in listing Obama’s birth date as August 4, 1961). Yes, whoever is in charge of the president’s social media efforts should be more conscientious of their dates, especially when they know that the birthers will jump on any ‘evidence’ that the president should be ousted.

But the proof is in the pudding, or rather, the birth certificate. Shouldn’t that be enough to end all this madness?

-- Catherine Lyons

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