奥巴马公布出生证明澄清质疑

President Barack Obama on Wednesday released a longer version of his birth certificate to answer Republican charges he was not born in America, and blasted "carnival¹ barkers" who refuse to let the issue die.

美国总统贝拉克·奥巴马本周三公布了一份完整版的出生证明，以回应共和党有关自己不是在美国出生的质疑，并讽刺那些揪住这个问题不放的人是“嘉年华小丑”。

US President Barack Obama's birth certificate that was released by the White House in Washington April 27, 2011.
Obama took the unusual step of making a statement in the White House press briefing room to comment on the controversy², which has been raised most recently by real estate tycoon³ Donald Trump⁴, who is considering a 2012 run for the Republican presidential nomination⁵.

"We do not have time for this silliness（愚蠢，糊涂） ," Obama said in an easy-going appearance that turned serious when he addressed what he called a distraction⁶ from the real issues.

US television networks broke into their regular programing for Obama's statement, giving him valuable air time just as the 2012 campaign is beginning to stir.

"I can't get the networks to break in on all kinds of other discussions," the president said with a smile as he stepped onto the podium（指挥台） .

Obama in his two years in office has had to deal with charges that he does not meet the constitutional requirement that a president must be U.S. born, and separately, some have said he was a Muslim, when in fact he is a Christian⁷.

The new document confirms what a shorter version released in 2008 has said, that Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961, the son of father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas.

Trump, speaking in New Hampshire, told reporters that he was "really happy" that Obama addressed the issue and is ready to debate other issues.

"I feel I've accomplished⁸ something really, really important and I'm honored by it," Trump said in remarks shown live on CNN.

Some conspiracy⁹ theorists have tried to make the case that the "Certificate of Live Birth" released in the 2008 campaign was insufficient¹⁰ and that Obama was in fact born in Kenya, even though the short form issued by the Hawaiian state government was all that was necessary for official business like obtaining a driver's license¹¹.