Kansas Birther Drops Complaint About Obama Eligibility
Source: TPM
A Kansas man dropped his complaint on Friday that could have led to President Barack Obama being removed from the November ballot there.
Joe Montgomery of Manhattan, Kan., wrote in an email to state officials that he no longer wanted them to investigate whether Obama was really a natural-born U.S. citizen or eligible to run for reelection. The email said that he, along with his friends and colleagues, faced a significant backlash after a state elections board took up his case and agreed to look into whether the presidents birth certificate was real.
There has been a great deal of animosity and intimidation directed not only at me, but at people around me, who are both personal and professional associations, Montgomery wrote in an email to the office of Secretary of State Kris Kobach, which released it to TPM. Im dont wish to burden anyone with more of this negative reaction, so please immediatley [sic] withdraw any action on this objection.
The Kansas Objections Board which consists of Kobach, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer had agreed to look into Montgomerys objection on Thursday. The members said they planned to revisit the issue on Monday and wanted to obtain certified copies of Obamas birth certificate.
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Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)They don't want or need this now with Mitt spiraling downward and taking the party with him.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Would not have played well with Independents, the people who will decide the election.
UrbScotty
(23,980 posts)they'd kick him off the ballot, just so everyone could see what has become of that party.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Obama is not competing in KS anyway, so there is no downside other than the very ugly precedent it would set. The advantage was all to the Dems.
If there were a practical way to cleave off the crazies and right wingers and let them have their own country, that would be excellent. But then we would REALLY need good border protection because that would be a true third world country.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)he got half a million votes in Kansas, there is the basic downside of disenfranchising those people.
there is also the effect on his popular vote nationally.
you/we should not look at every issue solely through a political lens if it ends up letting us justify things we'd never justify otherwise (like the *advantages* of Obama *not* being on the ballot in a state --think about what you're saying would be a *good* thing, without *any* downside)?
are you insane?
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Please go Google "electoral college". This is how Presidents get elected.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)Whatever...I'm sure the pressure came from the GOP machine itself. This was fast becoming a national embarrassment for them.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)Now, nobody is saying Kansas isn't some made up territory and is in the Electoral College fraudulently, but the timing very odd.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)Birthers have a track record of believing satire though.
nolabear
(41,963 posts)And often as not they end up shooting one another in their insane zeal to hit Obama. The problem with a bunch of "lone individualists" as they imagine themselves to be is that they don't bother to even talk to one another. That does not a "party" make. That a clusterfuck makes."
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)lumpy
(13,704 posts)He is the cowardly jackoff, along with his cohorts, who will have to live with his ridiculous suit against our president, forever. Agree, he should have to pay, heavily.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)Esse Quam Videri
(685 posts)Kansas prove that Rmoney is not a unicorn. I signed the petition and I know a few other DUers did too. What besides your taxes are you hiding Mittens?
marshall
(6,665 posts)Better to not start a fight if you're not willing to finish it, and lose fair and square.
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)Funny how their craziness just doesn't stand when you hold it up in the light of day.
frylock
(34,825 posts)that poor racist piece of shit having to deal with animosity and intimidation. i hope he gets laughed out of the community.
panzerfaust
(2,818 posts)This is what intimidation looks like.
jsr
(7,712 posts)I think he needs to prove he's human and not a space alien!
lumpy
(13,704 posts)He is penny-anti pissante.
Sabriel
(5,035 posts)He could use it at his next cocktail party.
The descriptions says it's "perfect for serving cheese, appetizers...even humble pie!"
http://www.fishseddy.com/browse.cfm/4,4396.html
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)crazy to me. We could have 50 people (one for each state) complain and remove whoever they didn't like.
The whole thing is silly - but scary at the same time.
Somehow I feel if it were a Republican running, this man would not have all these "questions."
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)and that if he continued with his lawsuit, then Mitt would be subjected to the same treatment.
imanamerican63
(13,795 posts)Ask if NoRomney and Ryan are aliens from another world??????? They are not stopping any of the stupid right wing nuts garbage they throw out!!!!!!! If they would say to these goof balls, "just stop" ie: McCain and a few others, I might have more respect for them, only a little more!!!!! But they play along with the nuts! I am happy and hope the Democrat base will never get as strange as the base on the right. They are not Republicans, just nuts found rolling around on the ground.