Sarah Palin suggests Obama released his birth certificate to overshadow Ben Bernanke's press conference. But why?
By Andrew Leonard
Of all the conspiracy theories swarming around the ridiculous question of where President Obama was born, my choice for most incomprehensible arrived this morning: The president, according to an avalanche of tweets, released a copy of his longform birth certificate specifically in order to distract attention from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's first-ever press conference.
In inimitable fashion, Sarah Palin led the way, managing in the space of 140 characters to suggest both that Obama had been forced into the release and that it was some kind of insidious dodge ...
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