In an interview on ABC News, he addressed the on-going zings from real estate mogul Donald Trump, who's ramped up his questioning of Obama's birth place in recent months saying, "Over the last two and a half years there's been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short-term for Republicans."
"But it creates, I think, a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii."
The president told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that people may believe "he doesn't have horns," and worry about unemployment or gas prices, but not "conspiracy theories or birth certificates."
And he has an unlikely ally, confirming that Karl Rove agrees that scrutiny over his place of birth is hurting Republicans.
"The truth of the matter is that I think that the vast majority of Americans…Democratic or Republican-really want this election to be about growing the economy, getting control of the deficit…and my suspicion is that anybody who is not addressing those questions is going to be in trouble."
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