Posted on 10/21/2008 1:51:26 PM PDT by A_Niceguy_in_CA
“Okay... then whose @#$%$%^$ job IS IT to determine if a candidate is eligible?”
In reading this thread I’m reminded of the copious number of bureaucracies staffed substantially by Leftists’ within our Government’s overall system. With that said it’s easy to understand why nothing gets done about this topic.
so if some Office raked McCain over the coals because of his being born in Panama, why didn't they follow suit with Obama? Were they not aware his mother was pregnant with him in Kenya sortly before returning to Hawaii? If they treated Obama diferentially, there would be an "equal treatment under the law" suit here IMO.
With all this dicussion going back and forth, it would seem to me that the secretary of state of any state could challenge a candidates qualifications if they are in question. Obviously this would require a republican secretary of state to initiate. It will also have to done qickly.
The hard part is finding a GOP official with any balls.
No controlling legal authority?
Who DOES have the responsibility for checking out Obama’s citizenship credentials and, if they exist, why aren’t they doing their job?
The left and their media allies howled over McCain’s birth status and he voluntarily responded with the documents. That’s the double standard and hypocrisy we’re seeing over the whole issue and it’s being done with GOP silence.
Even at best, if Obama is disqualified after the fact, Biden becomes the President elect, or President. If President, he nominates his vice-president, and the Congress rubber stamps that.
I wonder who Biden would select. That would be a nightmare scenario also.
to get on the ballot in each state I recall there is a number of signatures required, and is therefore the vetting process for Constitutional eligibility also conducted by each Sec of State?
Why should anyone have to bring a complaint before a government body? If the guy can’t show that he is a citizen, he cannot serve as President, period. There has to be some government body that oversees this.
Do we wait until he is elected, then challenge him in a district court?
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I agree. THIS IS INSANE!
THEY’RE RUNNING A MYSTERY MAN- WHO WON’T RELEASE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICAT TO PROVE HE’S CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED (OR ANY PAPERS), FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND NOBODY CAN/WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT???
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This whole election is a travesty- sheer insanity.
Massive voter fraud, voter intimidation,
a candidate who associates with and who is endorced by every racist, Muslim, Communist and America-hater on the globe, a candidate who violated the Logan act not once but twice (Iraq and Odinga)..
Flood the MSM out with emails with videos, articles, documentation. DEMAND they put the truth before the American voters!
McCain will NOT attack enough to win the election.
WE CAN.
McCain’s anemic attempts to fight Obama back is losing this election. Flood him out with emails with videos, articles, documentation- DEMAND he fight Obama back! NAME NAMES!
Please go to
http://www.protestthemedia.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7
and pick up all the email addresses to the McCain camp and HUNDREDS of emails of MSM.
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This was the expected “motion to dismiss” response from the FEC, doesn’t change the lawsuit in any manner. The Judge hasn’t made any decisions regarding the FEC or the core case against Obama and the DNC.
and how the judge was trying to escape making a ruling with his political adviser calling the shots...
Yes Virgina, Obama is a Kenyan!!!
“....so if some Office raked McCain over the coals because of his being born in Panama, why didn’t they follow suit with Obama?”
Perhaps I’m missing something in your reasoning, in your question. I can only restate in response that which you are responding to: “In reading this thread I’m reminded of the copious number of bureaucracies staffed substantially by Leftists’ within our Government’s overall system. With that said it’s easy to understand why nothing gets done about this topic.”
IOW with the Government Bureaucracies staffed by they of Leftist interest and support, how do you think they would respond to being asked to investigate their own?
IMO they drag anchor.
Perhaps, he's in Hawaii, with his "vacation" paid for by Obama who will be personally visiting with the judge later this week to assure he is comfortable and receiving loads of lobster and caviar in his suite?
Not that I know of. There are qualification requirements for obtaining matching funds, but I don't think that set of qualifications includes the question of qualification for ballot access.
It's an interesting issue on yet another level. Technically speaking, the people vote for electors in their states, and not for the candidate. It's the electors votes that must go to a qualified individual.
Isn't this thread about the FEC saying "we (the FEC) lack jurisdiction"?
Unrelated to this specific issue, but in election contests, the voters lack standing to sue for recounts.
Diane Feinstein, libhag from here in California, is the chair of the congressional committee responsible.
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