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Obama Birth Certificate

By Jamie Dupree
April 27, 2011

The White House today released a copy of the original long form birth certificate from the State of Hawaii, which shows the August 1961 birth of Barack Hussein Obama II.

In a statement in the White House Briefing Room, the President admitted he's not sure the release of this document will ever convince some who believe he was not born in the United States.

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