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Obama Birth Certificate Released

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In bid to quiet “birther” controversies.

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Courtesy of the White House

Can we finally stop talking about this now? The White House on Wednesday morning released President Barack Obama’s so-called “long-form birth certificate” in a bid to silence a lengthy debate about whether Obama was born in Hawaii. Officials had previously released a “certificate of live birth,” but that document didn’t have doctors’ signatures, and some conspiracy theorists insisted that it was manufactured or that the president had something he wanted hidden on the longer document. But the actual certificate is… quite boring, actually, offering no unknown information or indication that the baby was Muslim, for example. "We do not have time for this kind of silliness," Obama said Wednesday. "We've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do."

Read it at Associated Press