DC for Obama Located

Intrepid commenter Alex on this very site cracked the code that revealed the DC for Obama t-shirt that DCist had previously reported did not exist. Now they say "The shirt still isn't included on the main state shirt page of the Obama online store, however. Should we have been able to figure out that it was hidden there all along? Perhaps. Should we have had to? At the very least, it's sloppy web design."

So be that as it may, my friends, that's still not change you can believe in [hideous scowl]. John McCain could design a better page and he doesn't even know how to use a computer.

Comments

If that's what Obama shirts really look like, though-- shouldn't they say "Obama" in letters you can easily see, and that are bigger than the name of the state?

I'm sure someone else must have thought of this already. If I was Obama, I'd be kicking asses over it, in fact.

Posted by Swan | June 24, 2008 2:50 PM

John McCain could design a better page and he doesn't even know how to use a computer.

That's funny, because I don't see any "[State] for McCain" t-shirts on his site.

http://store.johnmccain.com/

Oddly enough, there's an "Irish for McCain" t-shirt, but that seems to be the only ethnic group represented. On the bright side, there is plenty of stuff that says "Honor" on it, and a heaping helping of baby gear.

Posted by southpaw | June 24, 2008 2:51 PM

Wow, just when we thought Matt had become a Obamabot, he turns around and endorses McCain entirely on the basis of a t-shirt.

Contrarian and petty -- worthy of a young Mickey Kaus!

Posted by peep | June 24, 2008 2:53 PM

I'm still trying to navigate to the page with all the Obama golf gear. WTF? How's a guy supposed to lean against a locker room wall and sneer at fellow duffers sans Obama knickers?

Posted by steve duncan | June 24, 2008 2:57 PM

Where's Maryland's shirt?

Posted by petesmom | June 24, 2008 3:00 PM

ahh cool - this just makes the shirt exclusive!

Posted by dcguy | June 24, 2008 3:04 PM

Louisiana's missing, also.

Posted by alli | June 24, 2008 3:05 PM

No thoughts on Team America, the US Men's basketball team? I came to you for good commentary...

Doesn't it just three big men seem like a highly risky (terrible) move? And what do they need three point guards for? And is Kidd really the pure shooter we need at point?

Posted by thorstein veblen | June 24, 2008 3:06 PM

I think the ones that are missing are sold out.

>If that's what Obama shirts really look like, though-- shouldn't they say "Obama" in letters you can easily see, and that are bigger than the name of the state?

The logo is so well-known he doesn't need to. His brand is strong.

Posted by Nick | June 24, 2008 3:29 PM

Where's Maryland's shirt?

http://store.barackobama.com/product_p/ts13128-md.htm

Louisiana's missing, also.

http://store.barackobama.com/product_p/ts13128-la.htm

Louisiana is sold out at the moment though, and there's no shirt image visible. Probably possible to place an order, but it would be backordered.

ahh cool - this just makes the shirt exclusive!

Only if you get the large t-shirt. Everything else is sold out. By the time they are no longer back ordered, it should go back onto the main state shirt page... except Maryland and Mississippi, for example, still aren't up there.

Posted by Alex | June 24, 2008 3:29 PM

By far the best Obama t-shirt is the Steal Your Face one.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Grateful-Dead-T-Shirt-Dead-For-Obama-Barack-XL_W0QQitemZ250262082898QQihZ015QQcategoryZ15687QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Posted by jj | June 24, 2008 5:43 PM

"John McCain could design a better page and he doesn't even know how to use a computer."

Err....no he couldn't.

Posted by In Texas | June 24, 2008 6:25 PM

As a followup to the Israelinsider post of yesterday relative to the Barack Hussein Osama forged birth certificate, I post their follow up article in which the fake Osame certificate is compared with a real Hawaiian birth certificate.

There is no doubt, Senator Osama is ineligible for the presidency and, should he win in November, the Rsthuglicans will sue in federal court and win, as they did in 2000.

"Analysis: Faked birth certificate suggests Obama may not be US citizen
By Reuven Koret June 24, 2008

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It is now a virtual certainty that the "birth certificate" claimed by the Barack Obama campaign as authentic is a photoshopped fake.

The image, purporting to come from the Hawaii Department of Health, has been the subject of intense skepticism in the blogosphere in the past two weeks.

It has become even more suspect with the revelation that variations of the certificate image were posted on the Photobucket image aggregation website -- including one listing the location of Obama's birth as Antarctica, one with the certificate supposedly issued by the government of North Korea, and another including a purported photo of baby Barack -- one of which has a "photo taken" time-stamp just two minutes before the article and accompanying image was posted on the left-wing Daily Kos blog.

That strongly suggests that Daily Kos obtained the image from Photobucket, not the State of Hawaii, the Obama family, or the Obama campaign. Photobucket is not known as a credible supplier of official vital records for any of the fifty states, and the liberties that other Photoshoppers took with the certificates confirms this.

Some of these oddities surfaced in Israel Insider's previous article on the subject, but new comparative documentary evidence presented below provides the strongest confirmation yet.

An authentic Hawaiian birth certificate for another Hawaiian individual has since surfaced which, using the same official form as the presumptive Obama certificate, includes an embossed official seal and an authoritative signature -- features that Obama's alleged certificate lack, as well as a certificate number referencing the birth year that was blacked out in the image claimed as genuine by Obama's campaign. According to Hawaiian authorities, authentic certificates are printed and sent by mail: there are no electronic-only copies.

Compare the top image presented by his campaign as evidence of Obama's 1961 birth and the other certifying the birth of one Patricia Decosta.

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So if it's genuine, Barack Obama -- because only he or another member of his immediate family could by law request a "Certification of Live Birth" -- must have a paper copy, with stamp and seal.

The Obama campaign, however, continues to flaunt the suspect unstamped, unsealed, document -- notably in very low resolution -- on its "Fight the Smears" website, with campaign officials vowing that it's authentic, sending the image around as "proof" to reporters, and inviting supporters to refer to it as they battle against supposed distortions against their candidate. However, the campaign refuses to produce an authentic original birth certificate from the year of Obama's birth, or even a paper version with seal and signature of the "Certification of Live Birth" -- which is not an original but an official confirmation supposedly based on verified original data.

The failure of the Obama campaign to do so, and its willingness instead to put up what now appears to be a crude forgery, raises the dramatic question of what the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate might possibly have to hide.

Until now, it has been believed that there was some embarrassing information on the real certificate: was the candidate's name something other than Barack Hussein Obama II, as it is claimed? Was no father listed because of the uncertainty over Obama's paternity? Was his father's race listed as Arab, or Muslim, rather than African? These revelations might be embarrassing, and further undermine his credibility, but he could disavow and downplay their significance." Would revealing such embarrassment outweigh the far greater risks involved in perpetuating a forgery?

There is one possibility, however, which alone might justify the risk that Obama and his campaign seems to be taking in putting forward the apparent forgery: Obama was not born in Hawaii and may not be an American citizen at all, or at least a "natural born citizen" as the Constitution defines the requirement for the nation's chief executive. Real original birth certificates, circa 1961, have all kinds of verifiable information that would confirm Obama's origins, or throw them into doubt should they be lacking.

Research has since uncovered the law, in force at the time of Obama's birth, that were he to have been born in another country, his young American mother's youth extended time abroad would not suffice to make him a "natural born citizen." Even if he were naturalized later -- and there is no evidence that he was -- he would not be eligible to run for the office of president and -- if forgery or misrepresentation were involved -- he and his staffers might find themselves facing stiff federal and state charges.

But if, at this late date, Obama has no proof of being a US citizen by law, natural born or otherwise, then he or his advisers may be tempted to try to "tough out" the allegations about his "birth certificate" or the lack thereof. He and his campaign have gotten away with other fibs, and embarrassments: maybe this one will go away, too.

Because the consequences were he to admit, or should it come out, that he was not born in Hawaii would be so onerous as to make it tempting to take the gamble, say a Hail Mary or an Inshallah, and hope that no one dares call his most audacious bluff by demanding proof. Talk about the audacity of hope!

The longer Obama waits, the more serious grow the consequences of waiting.

There is one simple way for the candidate to clear up the issue once and for all: produce for public inspection and objective analysis the paper copy of his original Hawaiian birth certificate -- if one exists. Ordinary citizens are required to produce one to get a passport or a driver's license. Surely it's not too much to ask from a man who aspires to hold the highest office in the land.

The issue is not whether Obama is black or white, Christian or Muslim. It is whether he was born in the USA and thus a citizen eligible according to the Constitution to run for President.

If incontrovertible proof of citizenship does not exist, then surely it would be wiser to admit it now. Because if Barack Hussein Obama II does not produce definitive proof of his "natural born" American citizenship with original, verifiable documents, he will be setting the stage for a very public battle over his credibility, the basic legitimacy of his candidacy, and its possible criminality, a legal, political and personal battle which has every prospect of leading to violence of the ugliest kind."

Posted by SLC | June 24, 2008 8:42 PM

I hope you go blind, SLC.

Posted by Godzilla | June 24, 2008 8:50 PM

Maybe the designers were drunk when they were putting the finishing touches on the store.

Not that, you know, web designers ever code while drunk.

...

Maybe that's just me.

Posted by ditriech | June 24, 2008 10:31 PM

@SLC: Kerners are go! Don't stop believing, buddy.

Posted by southpaw | June 24, 2008 10:42 PM

Since we bitchin about DC getting shafted in the T-Shirt department from the Obama campaign, it seems like I haven't been hearing much about DC voting rights in an Obama adminstration. I'm sure he supports it, but the buzz around town in the face of a potential Democratic dominance of the executive and legislative branch for the first time since 93 seems subdued. Back in the day, people were even talking about Statehood for DC. There was even a constiutional convention back in the early 80s for the state of New Columbia. Imagine DC getting two real life sitting Senators? That would likely kick off a civil war if it passed today, but we can always dream that my fellow DCers will have representation in both chambers of Congress.

Posted by am | June 25, 2008 9:07 AM

Since we bitchin about DC getting shafted in the T-Shirt department from the Obama campaign, it seems like I haven't been hearing much about DC voting rights in an Obama adminstration. I'm sure he supports it, but the buzz around town in the face of a potential Democratic dominance of the executive and legislative branch for the first time since 93 seems subdued. Back in the day, people were even talking about Statehood for DC. There was even a constiutional convention back in the early 80s for the state of New Columbia. Imagine DC getting two real life sitting Senators? That would likely kick off a civil war if it passed today, but we can always dream that my fellow DCers will have representation in both chambers of Congress.

Posted by am | June 25, 2008 9:10 AM

Since we bitchin about DC getting shafted in the T-Shirt department from the Obama campaign, it seems like I haven't been hearing much about DC voting rights in an Obama adminstration. I'm sure he supports it, but the buzz around town in the face of a potential Democratic dominance of the executive and legislative branch for the first time since 93 seems subdued. Back in the day, people were even talking about Statehood for DC. There was even a constiutional convention back in the early 80s for the state of New Columbia. Imagine DC getting two real life sitting Senators? That would likely kick off a civil war if it passed today, but we can always dream that my fellow DCers will have representation in both chambers of Congress.

Posted by am | June 25, 2008 9:11 AM

Matt, I hate to tell you, but some of your readers appear to be snark-challenged. And this just after Ben Smith identified a critical snark gap between Obama and McCain supporters.

Posted by Deborah | June 25, 2008 11:02 AM

I'm disappointed there were no "White Guy for Obama" items, even though they have specific stuff for women, Latinos, African Americans, Gays/Lesbians, Pacific Islanders, and people who read Hebrew. I guess that will come once they get the "Golf Gear" section up (although I see you can buy a sleeve of golf balls...).

Posted by Tom | June 25, 2008 12:38 PM