Did we really need to go there?
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...d.html?sid=101
President Barack Obama says he's releasing his long-form birth certificate because the country doesn't have time for the "distraction" and "silliness" of questions being persistently raised about where he was born.
The president spoke at the White House today after taking the unexpected step of releasing the document, which supplements Hawaii's official certification of the president's birth there. Obama had released that during the campaign.
Polls show large numbers of Republicans continue to doubt Obama is a natural born citizen eligible to be president. A Saperstein Poll last September for
The Dispatch showed that only 45 percent of central Ohio Republicans believed Obama's birth certificate showing he was born in the U.S. is legitimate.
Real estate mogul Donald Trump had seized on the issue as he weighs a GOP candidacy.