WASHINGTON—In the continuing controversy surrounding the president’s U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as “Afterbirthers” demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama’s placenta from his time inside his mother’s womb.

Here’s the thing: Given yesterday, do you instinctively know for sure whether this story is real or fake?

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12 replies on “A Question About Obama’s Birth That Still Hasn’t Been Answered”

  1. That one was easy. How about people who say yes fine he was born in Hawaii, but he’s still hiding something.

    Why won’t he release his golf handicap?

    Pick. Then click.

  2. Just wait till Trump and company discover the cache of fully-matured Obama clones hidden in the headquarters of the Rand Corporation just waiting for their World Domination activation.

    John Stossel investigates! You decide!

  3. I looked at site yesterday that was seriously demanding Obama release his “kindergarten records” (among many, many other things). These people are crazy and, as has happened before, it wouldn’t surprise me if that Onion article doesn’t have a bunch of people taking it seriously.

  4. i think he has about the most inspiring pre-office personal history of any president ever including bill clinton and FDR. i truly don’t get what RW lunatics hate about him personally. or politically, considering he’s governing center-right. he’s as black as urkel. maybe they’re jealous of his personal magnetism. or afraid of his trip of a mom & her altruistic hedonism.

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