by Sandy » Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:20 am
Sometimes I have a little trouble following Fox's connections between people and resources, and following where the SBC fits into all this.
A lot of this stuff is just right wing media frothing because they think the mainstream media mistreated poor George. The problem with payback is that what happens next has to be more spectacular and bizzare in order to attract an equal amount of attention. As a former long time Social Studies/Government/Economics teacher, I attribute most of these kinds of things to the blatant ignorance that occurs as a result of an educational system that allows students to graduate illiterate.
The safeguard to prevent a person whose birth circumstances don't meet constitutional muster comes into play long before a candidate can be nominated by their party and placed on the ballot in each of the 50 states. The state of Hawaii, where Obama was obviously born, provides certified copies of birth certificates to anyone who needs one, and that is all that is necessary, in this case, to prove one's place of birth. The supposition that most birthers are resting on is that the certified copies are fraudulent, that there was some sort of conspiracy to cook up fake documents and fake originals of his birth announcement in the newspaper, as well as bribery of a whole host of hospital personnel. Unless there's evidence that such faking occurred, and it is proven in a court of law, Obama's passport and driver's license suffices to meet the constitutional requirement. Of course, dumba***s like Trump and Wiley Drake are too stupid and ignorant to know their constitution or the law.
The idea that producing the "original" birth certificate will solve this issue, and that Obama is taking steps to avoid doing so is absurd. The Republican state official in Hawaii who is responsible for such records has testified to the original's existence, as well as to its location. But the constitution doesn't require producing an original birth certificate, namely because for those of us born before the computer age, such records are almost impossible to find. Once recorded, your original goes into a file, and then probably winds up in a storage box in the basement of some government building, there to molder until who knows when. What you get, when you request one, is a certified copy. John McCain couldn't produce an original birth certificate, and he was born in Panama. How is it that he could run?
Now, Fox, if you care to elaborate on what all of this has to do with the SBC, I'll read it.