THE BIRTH-CERTIFICATE DISTRACTION

Please see THIS (with thanks to Will). Brief excerpt:

While we were distracted by the president's birth certificate show-and-tell, his EPA releases its guidelines for expanding federal power under the Clean Water Act....

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President Obama said the whole "birther" controversy was a distraction from other more important things. That's just the way he wanted it.

Read it all.

The Obama administration is certainly adept at one thing — using sleight of hand.