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Thank you for the response. May I ask whatever possessed you to do it?

It was after having been exposed to the whole "Birther" saga.

I watched as people would get the Birthers all worked up claiming they had finally found the smoking gun that would finally end the Obama candidacy, only for that smoking gun to never materialize. Like the Hawaiian birth certificate with Obama's name as Barry Soetoro that some blogger claimed GOP operatives had got their hands on in Hawaii, the Michelle Obama tapes that Editor Korir claimed to have, etc.

One day I saw a "Birther" lamenting that they knew Obama was born in Kenya, but they just didn't have the smoking gun.

I thought, what if they had one? If only for a little while. Then I thought what a smoking gun might look like. So I spent an afternoon one day and created it. Never having any idea that it would go as viral as it did. I figured it'd create a bit of a rumble in the blogosphere and then quickly die out.