Obama releases his long form birth certificate

Washington: Seeking to put an end to a controversy over his birthplace, Barack Obama on Wednesday released his birth certificate, which showed that he was born in the American state of Hawaii, making him constitutionally eligible to hold the office of US president.
With the release of his long-form birth certificate, Obama and his team hopes to put an end to the conspiracy theorists who claimed he wasn’t born in the United States.
Presidents and vice presidents, according to the US Constitution, must be natural born citizens of America. The White House Communications director Dan Pfeiffer displayed the green certificate at an off-camera briefing, and provided a copy of it to the reporters.
Signed by the attendant, local registrar and Obama’s mother, the birth certificate says that Obama was born at the Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital at Honolulu in the island of Oahu in Hawaii at 7.24 pm on August 4, 1961.“The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. 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,” Pfeiffer said. PTI