
Seeking to put an end to a controversy over his birthplace, Barack Obama has released his birth certificate, which shows 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 put an end to 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. 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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