Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
The ONLY problem that ever existed was in the minds of the defeated neocon GOP in 2008, a couple of bitter Hillary supporters and the current collection of birther/oather/libertarian/teabagger jackasses.
Did those five states have the long form of McCain, Obama, Palin and Biden in 2008? If not, it's going to be REAL interesting to see those five states explain to the rest of the world how they ACCEPTED Obama's citizenship in 2008, but will now REJECT it......last time I checked, political candidates have NEVER had to carry around their original birth document papers (long form) to authenticate their citizenship.
FYI, I and my two younger brothers got our driver's licenses and passports utilizing our OFFICIAL COPY of our birth certificates....as did my friends and relatives, and theirs, and theirs.
Bottom line: when this nonsense blows up in the birthers faces and they have one less bogus issue to campaign on, will jokers like PMP have the cojones to admit the error of their ways?
Maybe no one ever accepted anything in the first place. you're only assuming they did.
It seems no State or Federal law even requires vetting the candidates....according to second link...
http://www.valuesvoternews.com/2011/01/abcnews-rightly-reports-that-obama.html
January 21, 2011
Army doctor could get up to 18 months in federal prison.
Poor sap....over a birth certificate that has
never been seen publicly.
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http://www.valuesvoternews.com/2010/11/video-memo-from-congressional-research.html
11/9/2011
Memo from the Congressional Research Service of the US Congress admits no one in the federal government verified Obama's long-form birth certificate.
They claim that no State or Federal law even requires vetting Obama....
Constitutional Qualifications for Senator
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. [U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 3, clause 3]
Constitutional Qualifications for Representative
at least 25 years of age.
a citizen of the United States for at least seven years prior to election.
a resident of the state he or she is chosen to represent.
[U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2]
Constitutional Qualifications for President
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
It is very specific:
35 years of age
natural born citizen
lived 14 years in the US
So Hawaii has verified that Obama was born there (two separate local newspaper announcements at the time too boot!), Hawaii and Illinois verified him as a citizen enough to get a drivers license and a passport, and he passed the vetting process that EVERY PREVIOUS PRESIDENT FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS for State Senate and President.
So when a bunch of yahoos change their state requirements, and he meets that by OFFICIAL LEGAL REQUEST....what on Earth will the birthers say then?