Note to aspiring pols

It'd be a good idea, while governments are moving towards digitizing their public records, to go ahead and place a certified copy of your birth certificate in a ziplock baggy and put it in a bank vault somewhere, lest you somehow find yourself running for high office. Put your mom's video of the moment in there, too, in case the birth certificate isn't signed by a doctor.

In his daily briefing earlier today, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs once again dismissed conspiracy theories about the president's citizenship and the birther issue, calling it "nonsense." Here's video: