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But the question all you Obot trolls won’t address is this: ***HOW**** would anybody keep Osama or Mickey Mouse off the ballot? If the public voted for these guys even though they are not eligible, how would they be kept out of our White House? How is the system set up to insure that a non-eligible President can never illegally occupy our White House?

I've addressed this numerous times, although you ignore my responses. Congress can refuse to certify an ineligible candidate, and the opposing candidates (either in the primary or the general election) have standing to sue in court. Your problem is that John McCain thought Obama is eligible, Mitt Romney thinks he is eligible, all 535 members of the Congress in 2009 thought he was eligible, and all 535 members of the current Congress think he is eligible. The Constitution has no "butterdezillion veto" clause that I can find.

When you read the statute that governs the certification of the electoral vote, where do you see anything that talks about the eligibility of the President and Vice President? When I read it I saw authorization to ask about whether the electors were all duly appointed or elected, whether the results were properly certified in the states, etc.

Furthermore, Obama doesn’t have to show Congress his birth certificate, and Congress members can’t get the HDOH to give them anything, any more than you or I can. And as I’ve pointed out many times, Hawaii statute does not allow a legislative body to determine birth facts. Obama’s eligibility depends on FACT AND LAW. Congress has no skill, authorization, or access to resolve either matters of fact or matters of law. That’s what courts are for.

And you’re refused to address my questions of how Congress can be the final authority on this according to the Constitution, when the Constitution still REQUIRES that a “President elect” - having already been approved/certified as the winner by Congress - be prohibited from acting as President if they haven’t qualified. Who exactly is supposed to decide that the certified President elect has failed to qualify and to force that person to refrain from acting as President? Who? And how are they supposed to be able to do that? What you’ve said makes no provision for that.

Furthermore, because the failure to qualify comes AFTER Congress is done with their Constitutionally-prescribed role, the matter of determining that the President elect has failed to qualify CANNOT be appointed to Congress. That blows apart the whole theory that you’re espousing, and all the excuses that the courts have used. You need to address this because it is the coup de grace to what you are claiming.