<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/756ffb61-c50f-460f-9bf4-1aeb1387bede/4707E6CE-613D-49EF-8007-071A1AF43DD9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday"><H1 id="heading-alone">Happy birthday to you, Mr President</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/A86311E8-7683-40D1-AAB8-401CFE7C1DE6" alt="Barack Obama presents cupcakes with a candle to journalist Helen Thomas at the White House. The president and Thomas share a birthday" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday"><P class="caption">Barack Obama presents cupcakes to journalist Helen Thomas at the White House. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday"><P>Unlike John F Kennedy's birthday celebration in 1962, when he was <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SLSlSmW74">serenaded by Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe</A>, <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barack-obama">Barack Obama</A> enjoyed his 48th birthday by presenting journalist Helen Thomas, who shares the same date of birth as the president, with a cupcake. Thomas turned 89 today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday"><P>The president emerged unannounced in the White House briefing room. Obama led the room full of reporters in singing Happy Birthday to You, gave Thomas a plate of cupcakes and watched her blow out a candle. Obama said Thomas wished for peace, no prejudice in the world and healthcare reform.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/aug/04/barack-obama-birthday"><P>The president's birthday comes as rightwing conspiracy theorists continue to claim<A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/28/birther-movement-obama-citizenship"> Obama was not born in the United States. </A>Over the weekend Orly Taitz, the leader of the birther movement, released a photo of a "Kenyan birth certificate" that <A href="http://washingtonindependent.com/53494/birthers-latch-onto-forged-kenyan-birth-certificate">has proven to be forged. </A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4707E6CE-613D-49EF-8007-071A1AF43DD9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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