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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Hampshire Lawmakers Call For Investigation Into Obama's Ballot Eligibility, Citizenship
A group of New Hampshire lawmakers asked the state attorney general's office Tuesday to investigate whether President Barack Obama meets the eligibility requirements to appear on the state's ballot, after their previous attempt to remove his name from the ballot was rejected in November.
Republican state Reps. Laurence Rappaport and Carol and Lucien Vita, say that Obama is not a natural-born citizen because his father was Kenyan. "This is not a birther issue, not a consideration of where Mr. Obama was born," Rappaport said, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader. "Our concern is only if he is a natural-born citizen."
The Congressional Research Service wrote in 2011, "There is no provision in the Constitution and no controlling American case law to support a contention that the citizenship of one's parents governs the eligibility of a native born U.S. citizen to be president."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/obama-ballot-new-hampshire_n_1184273.html
Scuba
(53,475 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Remember, these are the same folks who that thought Orly Taitz was onto something (rather than just on something) with her endless court filings. They don't think in terms of being credited or discredited in the public mind, and their faith in their ultimate vindication is without limit.
This is also another example of one of the differences between Republicans and Democrats: NOBODY in Republican circles will tell these nitwits to knock it off. They won't support them, either, but that will be as good as an endorsement in the nitwits' minds. And nobody in the "liberal" media will bring it up to any serious Republican candidate or officeholder. By contrast, even the most inocuous and tame action (call it Initiative X) by a Democratic operative will be blown up into a controversy, and every Democrat will either be called on or feel the need to take sides, and the media will endlessly ask whether this Democratic candidate or that Democratic officeholder "supports" Initiative X, and pretend that this represents another example of Democrats in Disarray.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... crimes have been committed, but not a single Republican leader will say "knock it off".
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)My guess is "no." By some incredible coincidence, nobody at any of the local stations, big newspapers or anywhere else will ask Republican leaders in Wisconsin whether they endorse or condemn lawlessness directed against citizens who just happen to be out gathering signatures to recall Gov. Walker. It's apparently something that just happens, like gravity, and nobody knows how.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's certainly good to see Mr. Fitzgerald held accountable, but I'd like to see this as a newspaper story or a teevee segment.
The cynical truth is that the "Mickey Mouse" signatures on the petitions don't come from the volunteers offering the petitions, but rather from Republicans trying to monkey wrench things. Of course, the requirement to turn in all the signatures gathered was necessitated because Republican operatives were doing the voter registration thing and shit-canning the cards people had filled out to register for the "wrong" party.
So laws were instituted across the country requiring that all cards, all petition signatures and so forth to be turned in, and the local registrars would sort out the good from the bad. Once again thwarted in their efforts to limit citizen participation, Republicans then turned to the fake name voter registration cards so then they could say that ACORN (and other organizations) were trying to register Mickey Mouse or Dracula, and commit voter fraud.
Mopar151
(9,985 posts)By Majority Leader DJ Bettencourt., after the scene they caused when Ms. Taitz was in town.
arbusto_baboso
(7,162 posts)That's what it's REALLY about.
onethatcares
(16,172 posts)this must be catching.
Now the pukes are rewriting the constitution again to require two parents to be citizens in order for their offspring to be one.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)These kooks are nuts.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)as these are terminally miserable people anyway.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)I want to see their heads explode next November.
Mopar151
(9,985 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Obama is a Head of State. As such, he was thoroughly vetted.
If he had really been born anywhere other than Hawaii, someone would have come up with reasonable proof. Nobody has or will.
No other country has come forward with anything provable to show Obama is not a United States citizen.
Our case law is quite clear on who is and who is not a citizen by birth. You can even be born a US citizen, when neither of your parents are.
Have these idiots no shame?
Mopar151
(9,985 posts)The right wing kooks up here have been in the echo chamber since childhood. The only statewide newspaper (Union Leader) has pipelined Bircher crap into NH from the whole conservative universe - for decades.
spanone
(135,844 posts)ChadwickHenryWard
(862 posts)That is taking anti-immigrant bigotry to a completely new level. This is beyond even the worst anti-immigrant hysteria of the nineteenth century.
Charlemagne
(576 posts)Im glad they are focusing on jobs.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)trying every avenue to defeat Pres O from voter suppression, redistricting, lying, cheating, stealing (all of which in the name of their "God" and so forth.
So called men/women of their God coming forth to declare that their "God" hate/dislike of Pres O.
These people are sick.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Unnatural-born. Would they let someone like that run?
Does anybody else really miss the feature Top Ten Conservative Idiots?
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Twits.
Aviation Pro
(12,172 posts)...you fucking morons.