Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell reiterated his position Sunday that the hubbub over President Barack Obama’s birth certificate – which the president himself poked fun at during Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner – is a side issue and a waste of time that never should have been raised.

“The problem with President Obama is not where he [was] born, it’s some of the policies that he’s advocating,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The feeble attempt, I think, to be able to get our deficits and debt under control with the proposals that [have] been made in the president’s budget really are the issue in this campaign.”