Obama’s birthday bowling a success
Image by Associated Press, from Obama's birthday five years ago.
On a personal level, Barack Obama’s birthday celebration sounds like a few I’ve had. Over the weekend he celebrated his birthday, which is today. He played basketball and went bowling at Camp David.
His bowling skill, apparently, has improved, or else he just got lucky this time. Everyone remembers his dismal bowling performance while he was on the campaign trail, but during his birthday bowling he got a 144, a very respectable score for any non-professional bowler.
Obama’s birthday too boring for media?
So, Obama’s run-of-the-mill birthday activities weren’t exactly headline material. But do you think that has kept Obama’s birthday free of controversy? Of course not. Plenty of people out there are using Obama’s birthday to hype up causes or generate business. I don’t think any payday lender is running an “Obama’s birthday deal,” but if any are, we’ll find them.
Probably you saw this one coming: The people known as “birthers,” who are trying to get Obama to release his long-form birth certificate are using Obama’s birthday as an opportunity to push their cause.
Birthers offer birthday bribe
WorldNetDaily Editor Joseph Farah in the past has offered $10,000 to anyone who could prove he or she was present on Obama’s birthday — the one that was 48 years ago. Now Farah is offering to make a $10,000 donation to the hospital in Hawaii where Obama says he was born if the president will release his long-form birth certificate.
The birthers have been trying to get Obama to release this document through lawsuits, bills and any other means they can think of. They are just dying to uncover something that will show Obama wasn’t born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be president. They want to so badly that one of them fabricated a Kenyan birth certificate for Obama.
Farah’s offer
In an article on his own web site, Farah says:
“Obama has said he was born in Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu. He participated in a fundraiser for the medical center in January. WND will send a check to whatever birth hospital is listed on his long-form certificate. All Obama has to do to see that donation made is to release it publicly.”
I am, indeed, curious about what would make Obama choose to withhold the long-form birth certificate. There is enough evidence that proves he was born in the U.S. that I don’t think he’s hiding it because he was born in another country. But, especially when it could help out a hospital with a $10,000 donation, why doesn’t he release the document publicly?
Obama’s birthday business promotion
Of course, businesses are commemorating Obama’s birthday in hopes of generating business or promoting items. Domino’s Pizza today in Washington, D.C., is giving out free cake to customers who come into a Domino’s location.
The national pizza chain is using Obama’s birthday to launch a new menu item, Chocolate Lava Crunch Cake. Not a bad idea. Washington, D.C. Domino’s locations are giving out the birthday cake from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. today — or until they run out.
A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the 44th president of the United States. God Bless!