A Real Shaka: Obama Confronts Birther Issue
It's that birther thing again.
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 points to one of the boys, 7-year-old Andre Wupperman of Orlando, and informs the president that the boy was born in Hawaii, the president's native state.
The president, delighted, greeted the boy with a "shaka" sign, the pinky and thumb gesture typical of Hawaiian culture. The boy gestured back.
"You were born in Hawaii?" the president said. Then he added teasingly: "You have a birth certificate?"
The patrons at Gator's Dockside on Saturday night, clearly aware of the discredited claims that Obama was not born in the United States, broke up laughing.
