Posted on 04/29/2010 8:44:11 AM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III
FORTH WORTH, Texas — A state lawmaker wants to make sure that any candidate on the presidential ticket from now on can show proof they were born in the United States — or not be allowed on the Texas ballot.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“If there is a next “go round.” I get the sense that Obama will not go meekly into the night.”
Just like clinton then.
Hear here!
HF
Bingo. He’s never winning Texas anyway. But we ought to be able to pass this in Florida. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Minnesota also ought to be targets. Of course, the first two you’d run into Dem governors who would veto the law.
This is a commonsense approach to what will continue to be a bedeviling controversy otherwise.
State the standard. Enforce it. That is all.
Doesn’t matter if its only in states he can’t win anyway. All it requires is one state to not put him on the ballot because he refuses to comply with the law. At that point I don’t think that even the msm can ignore it.
Hook ‘em Horns!
It’s worth it anyway. The Constitution must be upheld and, apparently, there is no process for doing that as to presidential candidates at the moment. If a party hack says, yeah, he’s eligible, that seems to be all there is to it and that is not sufficient.
Hawaii says that their COLB listing a Hawaiian birthplace is proof of birth within their state, and under the “full faith and credit” clause, Texas is obligated to accept it.
This law neither “Free(s) the long form” or establishes that one must be the child of two citizens to be a “natural born citizen”. In fact it seems that any proof of birth establishing U.S. citizenship at birth would fulfill the requirment to be on the Presidential ballot for any of these States that have (so far) passed these measures.
It probably does/will. Remember, this info is being filtered through an LSM “journalist” at the Boston Herald...
Nice choice of words: "a birth certificate not his birth certificate".
This counterfeit administration is so good at foistng counterfeits upon the masses.
But it’s a good thing because the media will have to cover it, and it will bring a lot more people in other states to demand to show his BC. But there is still the Natural Born Citizen thing, which he has already admitted he’s not. Also Mitt Romney is not a Natural Born Citizen. His father was born in Mexico.
I'm thinking more like Chavez or Castro.
ML/NJ
True.
Are you trying to claim that a child born of two U.S. citizens on U.S. soil is not a natural born citizen if one of those parents is not ALSO a natural born citizen?
Do you know how few people would be natural born citizens by that definition? Almost nobody, because almost every American has at least one Grandparent, or Great-Grandparent who was not a natural born citizen; especially by your definition.
It is up to Congress to regulate what criteria is acceptable or unacceptable as far as their documents and procedures; and so far, Congress has made no ruling that a computer printout COLB doesn't satisfy their (and thus other States) requirements as far as proof of birth.
But I am sure you can get Pelosi and Reid right on that one! ;)
From the U.S. Constitution....
“Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.”
This is very big. VERY BIG.
Win or lose, this will be at the top of the news before 2012. If Texas wins their case, then Obama would have to throw that state. If they lose, then others will ask “Why?”
We won’t have another presidential election.
Is a Hawaii COLB accepted as proof of citizenship for other questions, such as getting a passport, etc.?
My point is that according to this law, a COLB from Hawaii DOH showing a Hawaiian place of birth would be sufficient to get on the Texas Presidential ballot.
We will have another Presidential election, in 2012.
According to the full faith and credit clause, other States have to accept a Hawaiian COLB as proof of birth. Until Congress rules that Hawaiian proof of birth, and or other State's proof of birth documents, do not meet the necessary requirements and rules that new procedures need to be in place - that will have to serve as Hawaii's document establishing proof of birth.
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