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Birthers Blocked: Hawaii Rejects Repeat Requests for Obama Certificate
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThey are not going to take it anymore. In Hawaii, it's now the law that the state can simply ignore repeated requests for copies of President Obama's birth certificate. Gov. Linda Lingle, a Republican, signed a law Wednesday authorizing government agencies to ditch follow-up requests from so-called birthers, if it's determined their applications are duplicative or almost the same as previous requests, the Associated Press reported. The law is designed to cope with a small group of Americans who are convinced that Obama was not born in Hawaii, as his birth certificate indicates, or anywhere ...
Bill Would Require Presidents to Submit Birth Certificates
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFreshman Congressman Bill Posey (R-FL) has introduced a bill in the House that would require future presidential candidates to submit a birth certificate to prove that they are natural-born citizens in order to qualify to run for the office. Rep. Posey says that the bill is not aimed at President Barack Obama, who continues to be the subject of rumors about the circumstances of his birth, but is intended to remove all doubt surrounding future presidents.Posey cited the cries of illegitimacy that greeted President Bush after the disputed election of 2000 and the conspiracy theories about ...
Obama's Birth Certificate Verified
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOne of the stranger stories to come out of this year's election was the widely e-mailed claim that Barack Obama was ineligible to run for president because he was not actually born on U.S. soil. Our constitution, you see, requires that our presidents be "natural-born" citizens. John McCain, of course, was born in Panama, though, because that event took place on a U.S. military base, it passes constitutional muster. The unfounded, conspiratorial charge that Obama was hiding his birth certificate got a whole lot of people who were already upset at Obama even more upset. Call it the bitter icing ...
Clinton, Obama Sponsor McCain Citizenship Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe question of whether Sen. John McCain is eligible for the presidency has popped up from time to time in the media and on the Internet. The controversy, such as it is, hinges on the circumstances of McCain's birth. The Constitution lays out three eligibility requirements for presidential candidates. A candidate must be at least 35 years old, a resident of the United States for at least 14 years, and must be a "natural-born citizen." McCain qualifies on all three; but some commentators have questioned whether he can be considered to have been natural-born because he was born on a U.S. Navy ...
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