In a statement after Obama spoke, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called the issue a distraction ? and yet blamed Obama for playing campaign politics by addressing it.
"The president ought to spend his time getting serious about repairing our economy," Priebus said. "Unfortunately his campaign politics and talk about birth certificates is distracting him from our number one priority ? our economy."
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