President Obama released his long-form birth certificate Wednesday, saying questions from “sideshows and carnival barkers” about his citizenship and legitimacy as president have become too distracting. “We do not have time for this kind of silliness,” Obama said. “We’ve got better stuff to do.”

Right-wing fringe groups have been claiming since Obama’s 2008 campaign that he was covering up the fact that he’d been born abroad, possibly in Kenya, and so could not legally be president. In blogs and books, the so-called “birthers” demanded to see Obama’s long-form birth certificate from Hawaii.