Washington, Apr 27: Seeking to put an end to a controversy over his birthplace, Barack Obama today 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 silence 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.
 Soon after the White House released his birth certificate, Obama said, "We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii August 4th, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.
 "We've posted the certification that is given by the state of Hawaii on the Internet for everybody to see. People have provided affidavits that they, in fact, have seen this birth certificate. And yet this thing just keeps on going."
 "Now, normally, I would not comment on something like this, because, obviously, there's a lot of stuff swirling in the press at any given day and, you know, I've got other things to do," Obama said.
 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.

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