White House Releasing Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate

Apparently Donald Trump has had more impact on the White House than anyone thought because this morning they are releasing Obama's long form birth certificate.  I'll have links to it when available.  If this form is different from the one that was released by lefty websites during the campaign this issue probably won't completely go away.

UPDATE:  Here it is.  It's not the same form as was apparently cobbled together by lefty websites during the campaign, but there isn't anything about this that should create any new controversy.

From USA Today:

President Obama released copies of his birth certificate today, hoping to silence questions about his Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Obama himself plans to make a statement about the so-called “birther issue” at 9:45 a.m.

The release is a response to Donald Trump and other critics who have questioned whether Obama was born in the United States, and is therefore eligible for the presidency.

The White House also released letters from this month in which Obama requested copies of his birth certificate.

“The president believed it was becoming a major distraction from the issues we are having in this country,” said communications director Dan Pfeiffer, calling it a “fake controversy” and “a sideshow.”

Obama faxed a letter to the Hawaii Department of Health on April 22, requesting two copies “of my original certificate of live birth.”

The health department replied that it would make an exception for Obama and make two certified copies from their bound volume of birth records; normally the department would generate computer copies.

What's amazing to me is this thing has raged on since well before the 2008 election.  Obama could have stomped this out long ago, but instead he chose to let the rumor mill go until it finally began to significantly hurt him politically.  And just yesterday the White House Press Secretary ripped a CNN reporter for asking about the birth certificate.  An apology is in order.

I've never cared much for the issue because once Obama raised his hand and took the oath he became president, and there's only four ways someone leaves the office after that:  His term ends, he resigns, he dies, or he is impeached.  Had it been shown that Obama was ineligible I'm not sure there was any mechanism outside of impeachment that could have removed him, and with Democrats in charge of the Senate that wasn't going to happen.

Now perhaps we can concentrate on the fact that he's incompetent and his policies are destroying this country's economic strength and harming America's standard of living.

I had planned to post this item this morning:

From D. Bachmann who wrote this on Erick Erickson's Facebook wall:

Obama's approval is slipping so quick now Kenyans R claiming he was born in US!

Heh.

UPDATE: A lot of pundits are finding it odd that Obama personally did the press conference releasing his birth certificate. Not me. The petulant, arrogant Obama is just what I expected from a guy who believes he's above criticism.