For years, well before he was elected president of the United States of America, critics (ie. conservative politicians in this country) have been making the ridiculousness claim that President Barack Obama should NOT be president of this country because they do not believe that he was born in the US and is, therefore, ineligible to be president (our federal constitution stipulates that a person MUST be naturally born on US soil to become president). Despite the fact that President Obama issued a copy of the short form version of his birth certificate during the 2008 Presidential election, his detractors STILL have not been convinced that he is US natural born. Today, in an effort to finally END the ridiculous controversy, the White House has issued the long form version of President Obama‘s birth certificate putting to rest AT last the controversy.

President Obama posted a copy of his “long-form” birth certificate from the state of Hawaii, hoping to finally end a long-simmering conspiracy theory among some conservatives who asserted that he was not born in the United States and was not a legitimate president. The birth certificate, which is posted online at the White House Web site, shows that Mr. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is signed by state officials and his mother. “The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country,” Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, wrote on the Web site Wednesday morning. “It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country” … The contention that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States, and therefore did not meet the constitutional requirement for election as president, has been around for years and has long been refuted. But it has recently gained public attention after Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, repeatedly raised questions as he explores whether to run for president. Mr. Pfeiffer said in the statement on the site that the president authorized officials in Hawaii to release the document broadly. In July of 2009, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary at the time, dismissed the “made-up fictional nonsense of whether or not the president was born in this country.” But the so-called birther controversy continued, as evidenced by polls that suggested large numbers of people said they were not confident that Mr. Obama was in fact born in the country. Many of the doubters suggested that Mr. Obama could not produce the “long-form” birth certificate because they assumed it did not exist. The White House decision to produce the document is an effort to disprove those accusations.

I love my country very much and I am always very proud of what we stand for … but it’s stuff like this that really embarrasses and saddens me. Questions over President Obama‘s birth are nothing more than racism, pure and simple. I don’t care what anyone says, I honestly believe that if President Obama were white, there would NEVER EVER have been accusations that he was not born in this country. Even after his birth certificate was released today, conservative news channel Fox News is running a headline that read something like “President Obama releases what it claims to be his long form birth certificate”. Without question, detractors will try to find a way to discredit this document … it’s absolutely absurd! The PDF of Obama‘s birth certificate can be downloaded HERE. I honestly don’t even know what to say about something as silly as this … but sometimes, American politics can be silly. The release of this document will not quell the controversy completely (because detractors and right wing crazies will never stop their attacks) but at least I hope it will allow the sane people in this country a chance to move on to more important issues plaguing our country today.

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