It's hard to believe that people still question President Obama's place of birth. He's already released a Certificate of Live Birth, a legal and certified document used in the State of Hawaii to confirm a person's birth. Birther's demanded more. They wanted to see his "long-form" certificate, theorizing that it either didn't exist or it somehow supported their fantastical conspiracy theory that President Obama was born in Kenya and his election was thus invalid.
President Obama directly confronted the Birther Movement today when he releaed his "long-form" birth certificate, after obtaining a copy from the State of Hawaii, which doesn't release the "long-form" certificate. Guess what - the "long-form" confirms that President Obama was born in Honolulu, which is in the United States, and it was signed by both his parents and the attending physician.
The funny thing about all this is Republican leaders like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump helped to mainstream this fringe movement, and after the release, they accused President Obama of using the birth certificate silliness to distract voters from the real issues like the wars and deficit. Talk about irony.
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