Thursday, April 28, 2011

Barack Obama responds to controversy over his birthplace

Barack Obama has "no time for such nonsense," but still wanted to speak, Wednesday, April 27, regarding the controversy over his birthplace. Some of his opponents who doubts that the U.S. president to be well born in Honolulu, the capital of the State of Hawaii. "We have no time for such nonsense. We have better things to do.

I have better things to do. We must find solutions to major problems and I am sure that is possible, but c is on them that we must focus "not on this controversy," Obama said in a speech. To silence rumors about the subject, the White House also released for the first time the long version of the birth certificate of the president.

A short version of this document had already been published on the Internet by the team of Mr. Obama during the presidential campaign of 2007-2008, some of his opponents doubted whether born on U.S. soil and thus can become president. This document, certified by the State of Hawaii, says the birth of Barack Hussein Obama in Honolulu, August 4, 1961 at 19 h 24.

But this debate has taken on a new force in recent weeks, especially when the real estate mogul Donald Trump, who entered politics and toying with the idea to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012, has doubt that Obama was born on American soil. The businessman had even announced it had established a team to investigate the existence of the famous birth certificate of Barack Obama in Hawaii.

The White House believes that this debate has become a "distraction" and hopes to stop disseminating the long version of the birth certificate of Mr. Obama, said Wednesday the director of communications for the presidency. This debate was "not healthy for our political debate," added the spokesman of Mr.

Obama, Jay Carney, during a press briefing. The head of state, he said "wants to discuss issues that concerned Americans" really. In 2010, more than a quarter of Americans believed that Barack Obama was not born on American soil, explained at the time the New York Times.

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