What do you talk about over coffee with friends - Alaska's prison system? Carmen Gutierrez, deputy commissioner of the Alaska Department of Corrections, is willing to bet not.

Amid hundreds of spectators, most of them members of the media, the President makes a few cute comments, issues a pardon for the turkey and a "runner-up" , and then sends the turkeys off to a petting zoo or ranch, where they live about a year.

First, did the President know that his publisher was describing him as Kenyan-born? has certainly allowed birtherism to flourish, not all entirely as the fault of the birthers themselves.