<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div>Courtesy of today's (September 9, 2012) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Obama cracks birther joke with boy</span><br></div><div><br></div>ORLANDO, Fla. – It’s that birther thing again. <div><br></div><div>President Barack Obama was at an Orlando sports bar, snapping a University of Florida Gators’ sign, sipping a pint and working a crowd when he walked up to a table with five children. One adult pointed to one of the boys, 7-year-old Andre Wupperman, of Orlando, and informed the president that the boy was born in Hawaii, the president’s native state. </div><div><br></div><div>Delighted, the president greeted the boy with a “shaka” sign, the pinky and thumb gesture typical of Hawaiian culture. The boy gestured back. </div><div><br></div><div>“You were born in Hawaii?” the president said. Then he asked teasingly: “You have a birth certificate?” </div><div><br></div><div>The patrons at Gator’s Dockside, clearly aware of the discredited claims that Obama was not born in the United States, broke up laughing.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------</div><div><br></div><div>President Obama does the Hawaiian gesture the “shaka” with Andre Wupperman, far left, at Gator’s Dockside in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:8545D45A-B824-479E-9A91-8AF43E869A3C" alt="image.jpeg" id="8545D45A-B824-479E-9A91-8AF43E869A3C" width="620" height="413"><br><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------<br><br>Seeya this afternoon, Moscow.<div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Wallace, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div></div></div></body></html>