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Arizona: Giving Texas and Florida competition for dumbest state since 2010
Kyougu
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There's not enough forehead slapping pictures for this level of silly goosery.
Arizona House OKs Bill Requiring Presidential Candidates to Provide Birth Certificate
Arizona House OKs Bill Requiring Presidential Candidates to Provide Birth Certificate
The Arizona House approved a bill Wednesday that would require presidential candidates to show his or her birth certificate in order to be on the state's ballot.
PHOENIX -- The Arizona House approved a bill Wednesday that would require presidential candidates to show his or her birth certificate in order to be on the state's ballot.
The House approved the measure on a 31-29 vote after four Republicans joined all of the Democrats in opposing it. The measure still faces a Senate vote.
It would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the Arizona ballot to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.
So-called "birthers" have contended since the 2008 presidential campaign that President Obama was born abroad, even after his official Hawaii birth certificate was made public along with birth notices that two Honolulu newspapers published in August 1961.
The Constitution says a person must be a "natural-born citizen" to be eligible for the presidency. Skeptics suggest Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate is fake and say he was actually born in Kenya, his father's homeland.
Supporters of the Arizona measure say it would help settle the controversy.
"I support this measure in order to remove this as any type of issue in the future," said Rep. Cecil Ash, R-Mesa.
Opponents say it's a waste of time that makes Arizona mocked by the rest of the country.
"I am ashamed that this is even a topic of discussion," said Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix.
The measure would require the secretary of state to review candidates' documents and withhold a candidate from the ballot if he has "reasonable cause" to believe ineligibility.
Courts have rebuffed lawsuits challenging Obama's eligibility to be president, but the issue hasn't gone away.
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Please stop trying to cater to the lowest common denominator.
Bringing yourself down to their level just encourages them to stoop even lower, and makes you look foolish in the process.
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Forar
I dunno, Arizona has Arpaio as well. This is clearly a tighter race than some might believe.
By a mile, but apparently Arizona intends to give them some competition. Florida, meanwhile, isn't even in the top 5.
Speaking of which, you're not going to let Rubio put is back into the running for dumbest state, are you?
I did pledge last year to campaign for Crist if it ensured Rubio's defeat. I'm still waiting to see if he'll go independent before doing anything. Honestly, though, I think it'd be less of a nail-biter if Meek were to be king-maker in exchange for Crist's promise to caucus with Dems. Knowing the Dems, though, they'll take Crist's independent run as a a chance to have Meek steal the seat as the right leaning electorate tears itself apart. I don't think that this assessment of the race is realistic, but I wouldn't be sad if it happened.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
*breathes*
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Of course not. They'll just claim it's fake. They'll never be satisfied, even if you could take them in a time machine to the Honolulu hospital and make them watch B-rock pop out of his mom's vagina.
Nope.
"Nuh uh that's fake, that couldn't be obama being born, where's the soviet union theme and why isn't he holding a hammer and sickle?"
There hasn't even been the Primary yet, let alone campaigning.
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are....you being serious?
Yeah but he's white
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Yeah! Being white is awesome!
*gives high fives to everyone in the room*
And not Kenyan, duh.
No I'm serious, when he shows his birth certificate proving that he's a muslim from mumbasa, kenya, will it shut them up? I mean I'd assume their heads would explode
I wasn't being serious no, I was just briefly imagining a return to rationality in the US
They're trying awful hard to get there, though.
pfft they've only been at it a couple of months
the rest have been at it for years
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I went into more length about it in the State and Local politics thread, but I covered the gist of it here, and the polling so far bears up to what I'm saying. Primary season begins May 1st, but Rubio's been campaigning since announcing last year. I desperately want Crist to go independent. It'll help bolster the meme about the GOP being far right and driving out moderates.
Not sure why people have an issue with this Arizona law. I'm actually surprised that laws like this weren't on the books already.
Rigorous Scholarship
I've no problem with it besides being both reactionary and redundant. In fact I can pin a bunch more R's to it.
It's just a sign of absolutely retarded pandering
I'm pretty sure you have to file evidence that you're a natural-born citizen when you're running for President, but not for each individual state.
And whoever said Florida wasn't in the top five most retarded states:
Ahahahahahahahahahahah. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
Dude, it's so far into the #1 position that it's probably about to lap Texas.
This is like writing a law that insists that the next time we go to the Moon that the astronauts hold up a big sign that's visible via backyard telescopes so that we can all confirm that they aren't making shit up.
A return to rationality?
During which year(s) was the US rational? I would really like to know.
From what I've read, this has been a blind spot in State electoral laws. Up until now, no one has been required to show documentary proof of their NBC status. Whatever the looniness of the Birther movement, laws like this are a good idea.
Rigorous Scholarship
If nothing else, at least Obama has given us a window into exactly how racist this country still is.
Hint: Very/extremely racist.
well, relative rationality, for the United States.
the mid 1990s?
Politics of the US and the public discussion have always been plagued with goosery, but today we have a veritable storm of goose shit flying from all directions
Sadly, the south is like 50% of the country. Maybe more. I mean Alaska is basically in the south. Even though it's not.