In April the White House took an unusual step after years of pressure from people who were never really convinced that Obama is an American citizen. Business man, Donald Trump, began to propose such claims again, bringing the issue back to a head.

Because of Obama’s refusal to show the birth certificate, the White House did something unusual and broke network’s regular daytime programming to show Trump in New Hampshire and the White House before Obama spoke.

“Normally I wouldn’t have commented on something like this,” said Obama.  “I’ve got other things to do.”

Obama stated that he decided on the release of the birth certificate because the argument over where he was born had completely over shadowed the debate on the budget a few weeks ago.

“The dominant news story wasn’t about these huge , monumental changes that we’re going to have to make as a nation,” Obama said.  “It was about my certificate.  And that was true for most of the news outlets represented here.  So I just want to make a larger point here.  We’ve got some enormous challenged out there.”

This is where we should start to think about what we are doing as a nation.  While gas prices are climbing, the economy is falling apart, and we are in trillions of dollars in debt, all Trump can think about is whether the president is a legal citizen.  Obviously if he is the president, he is a citizen.

There are long, legal processes involved with running for president, and the nation doesn’t know if the government did not think to check this birth certificate.

It is sad that the only way these rumors could be put to rest is for the nation to be provided objective evidence.  While the country is in turmoil, the only thing we could do is think about his citizenship. 

As President Obama said, we do not have time for this kind of silliness.  We do have better stuff to do.  He has better stuff to do.

In order for us to solve all of the problems that our country has now, we, as a nation, have to come together and set things like this aside.  It is distracting us from what really needs to be done and how we can solve these problem together.