President Barack Obama, in what The Associated Press calls an “extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born,” on Wednesday released his long-form birth certificate from Hawaii.

The president told reporters he and his staff “don't have time for this silliness” — apparently referring to the chatter renewed by potential presidential candidate Donald Trump's assertion that Obama is not a U.S native and thus not eligible to be president.

During the 2008 campaign, Obama had released a shorter form of his Hawaiian birth certificate.

Perhaps today's disclosure had something to do with comments made by Franklin Graham, son of the revered evangelical preacher Billy Graham, over the weekend.

On Sunday's ABC show “This Week With Christiane Amanpour," Franklin Graham said he wondered why Obama doesn't just release more records if he has nothing to hide.

In a follow-up interview with a magazine his father founded, Christianity Today, Graham distanced himself from so-called birthers.

One prominent Christian leader also appearing on “This Week” on Easter Sunday didn't hesitate to throw cold water on those questioning Obama's birth.

Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission for more than two decades, called them “irrational and a little imbalanced.”

Land appeared in a round-table discussion later in the same ABC show.

“I say the idea that he wasn’t born in Hawaii, and the idea that he’s a Muslim is just flat nuts,” Land said.

Kristen Moulton