They added a little more fuel to the controversy by suggesting Tuesday was not in fact his birthday.

According to so-called 'Birther Queen' Orly Taitz, the mainstream media has conspired with the White House to 'hoodwink' the American people into believing that the president was born Aug 4.

'It's a very clever tactic, because no one wants to tell someone that they're not eligible to be president when it's their special day,' she said.

In a sign that the Birther movement has its followers too, a new poll shows that 50 percent of Republicans believe that President Obama is actually still 47.

'Lying about where you were born is one thing, but lying about when you were born is unforgivable,' Taitz said.

She added that it was 'very interesting' that Obama had dispatched Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Kenya, remarking, 'She wouldn't be there to find certain documents and shove them down her pants, would she?'

(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)