WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration is releasing President Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer announced Wednesday.Obama will discuss the decision to release the certificate Wednesday morning, the White House announced."This whole birther debate has been really bad for the Republican Party," Pfeiffer said. But the discussion is "crowding out the debate" on more important issues and is a distraction, he said.The so-called "birther" debate is "good politics" but "bad for the country," Pfeiffer added.Obama released a legally binding "certificate of live birth" in 2008, but many opponents of the president continue to assert he was born overseas and may be constitutionally ineligible to serve as president.Copyright CNN 2011
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