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Hillsdale college had a townhall webcast on economic liberty this morning which was advertised on Rush, Hannity and other talk shows. At the very end a question was asked on eligibility. This happened hardly 10 minutes ago.

The president of Hillsdale opposed judicial oversight of eligibility suggesting it amounts to tyranny! Poppycock!

He suggested while impeachment could be a better remedy for such a situation it SHOULD NOT BE USED in such case because ineligibility would not be an impeachable offense!

When Hillsdale College claims to teach the constitution and its own president, Larry P. Arnn, says, essentially, there's no controlling legal authority on something as fundamental as a candidate's qualification for elective office who do we look to for enforcement of our foundational document and excellence in education on the same?

The birther/eligibility questioner identified himself "Shack Hill" from Centerville, Virginia and someone the Hillsdale president recognized.

Here's a quick transcript of the question as asked:

"We've talked kind of globally on the constitution and we've talked about some very important principles but I'd like to narrow one in particular and that is the constitutional right to become president. I didn't know if you would want to talk about that in particular with um proving that a citizen has...or an individual is a citizen and also talk about if you would the Arizona initiative about maybe not allowing somebody on the ballot that doesn't prove that."

The question from Shaq(?) Hill of Centerville, VA: "We've talked kind of globally on the constitution and we've talked about some very important principles but I'd like to narrow one in particular and that is the constitutional right to become president. I didn't know if you would want to talk about that in particular with um proving that a citizen has...or an individual is a citizen and also talk about if you would the Arizona initiative about maybe not allowing somebody on the ballot that doesn't prove that."

Here's a quick transcript of Hillsdale College President Dr. Arnn's reply on eligibility:

"I'll say something direct about Obama's birthcertificate.
Impeachment works a certain way in this country and there's a reason for it and there's a profound thing behind it and it's the reason by the way, and what I'm about to explain is this argument is not very important.
So, first of all, if you could go to a court and file a lawsuit and get the president removed, that would make the judge in that court an incredibly powerful person. Right? I'll bet the president would take his phone calls.
I'll bet, by the way, if it was Judge Joe or Judy, and they called up and said, "You know Mr. President, I think, we need to change a few things around here. Why don't you listen to me about this point, it might go well for me if you did." In other words you transfer the presidency from the person elected to the job to the court official, right? And none of us wants that.
So, impeachment works this way, it is a curious process and it's ingeniuos and it takes huge advantage … (James Madison digression) …
(Madison) figured out that here's what we could do: we've got two houses, one of them brings the thing and prosecutes and the other one acts like a jury. They're all elected to high station and they have to reach an extraordinary agreement to get rid of the guy.
And that way it is both a legal and a political process by which you get rid of the guy and that means the People who elected all these guys remain better in charge of the system, right? that's what it's about.
So that means, by the way, that it doesn't matter whether he's got a birth certificate or not unless you can impeach him for that and I don't believe you can. In other words, I can count. Then it isn't going to happen. And it should _not_ happen in a court.
Now as an electoral issue it's interesting and I don't mind people talking about it and uh, it's not for me to decide things like this. My own particular bent on elections is this: argue about the stuff…"