Since the presidential primaries in 2008, people have been questing whether Barack Obama is a US citizen. Several commentators and the American people, have said that if he was an citizen then why should he have a problem showing his birth certificate. As an American citizen myself, I would not want the entire world to see my birth certificate either. On April 28, 2011, President Barack Obama, had a press conference and released his birth certificate. His birth certificate assured the American people that he is an US citizen and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Glenn Beck responded to Obama releasing his birth certificate on his radio show by saying, “ This is the best issue for the president. They love this”. It seems to me he is completely mocking the president. President Obama stated in his press conference that, “ I felt that we needed to invest in education and infrastructure and making sure that we had a strong safety net for our seniors even as we were closing the deficit, during that entire week the dominant news story wasn't about these huge, monumental choices that we're going to have to make as a nation. It was about my birth certificate. And that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here”. He also discussed how it had became a distraction and he felt the need to release his birth certificate. As a someone who follows the news, this is disgusting to me. We are having budget problems, economy problems and soldiers are dying in Iraq but we are worrying if the president is a citizen or not. Don't you think the White House does heavy duty background checks to see what this person is getting into and their past history? The White House is not going to allow an president with a criminal history to become president. With so much, going on in the world we need to start worrying about real issues going on in the world, and not birth certificates.
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