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Obama birth certificate as seed art at the Minnesota State Fair

By Chris Steller | 08.28.09 | 12:50 pm

President Obama’s birth certificate (or purported lack thereof) has been a central piece of rightwing agit-prop, but at the Minnesota State Fair’s crop art exhibit, it’s now a piece of agri-prop. 

AM.MN: Pawlenty nursed his jerked chain at last year’s fair

By Chris Steller | 08.28.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoGov. Pawlenty recalls taking comfort at the 2008 Minnesota State Fair after U.S. Sen. John McCain’s campaign for president left him high and dry in Denver. They’d sent him to do TV interviews at Barack Obama’s nominating convention, but…