10 of the United States -- controlling 107 Electoral College votes -- are now considering some type of legislation" that requires presidential candidates to provide proof of constitutional eligibility. Two of the states' proposed bills contain additional eligibility requirements that trump a long-form birth certificate, even a pricey $100 souvenir version crafted by Hawaii lawmakers. The Arizona bill requires: "A sworn statement attesting that the candidate has not held dual or multiple citizenship and that the candidate's allegiance is solely to the United States of America." The Nebraska bill further requires that the candidate attest to three conditions on the day of his birth: he was subject only to the jurisdiction of the U.S., owed allegiance to no other country, and that both his mother and father were U.S. citizens. Dual citizenship, a divided allegiance that experts contend the Constitution's framers sought to avoid for the Presidency, is a status created when the country of a child's birth (documented by a birth certificate) and the country of citizenship of the parents are in conflict. Obviously the Arizona and Nebraska legislators concerned themselves with crafting laws supporting the Constitution's finer points of eligibility rather than the sensational search for the missing long form. Unless Obama pulls out a certificate listing a birth father other than the one Abercrombie remembers seeing him with as a child, or reneges on the assertion on his "Fight the Smears" campaign website that he had, until age 23, foreign citizenship from his Kenyan father, he won't qualify for the ballots in these two states.
A sitting US President won't qualify to be on the presidential ballot...What planet do you people live on to believe or have hope in such nonsense This shows many republicans true feelings about the 2012 elections.You know none of the GOP contenders can beat Obama so you hope,wish and try to handicap the election by taking him off the ballot in 10 states.You people are truly a sad and pathetic bunch.
How about you show us what a fucking genius you are by providing a link showing the current law and/or regulation at federal and state level governments to vet presidential candidates?
you can, but you have to re-apply each time you do so. you can't just go "here's my NJ driver's license, give me my TX one."
Such a law would conflict with the constitution which prescribes the eligibility requirement, which Obama has met. Courts would strike down such a law. It is doubtful those laws would pass in those states anyway. Look, any state can cook up a law designed to disqualify any particular candidate, but it would be nugatory in the end.
I like your word, "nugatory", but you're wrong about Odumbo having "met" Constitutional requirements. He's only been "presumed" to have been met them... by a politically-motivated party... and all challenges have been turned away... likely with political motivation. And states cannot "cook up a law designed to disqualify" a candidate which meets Constitutional requirements... that's just BS.
What a dope. How about you show the current law and/or regulation at federal and state level governments to vet presidential candidates?
Obviously you have to fill out some paperwork and pay a fee,point is Texas has to accept New Jerseys driver's licenses to get a Texes DL and Texas has to accept a persons Jerseys license to drive on Texas streets Texas also has to accept a persons Jerseys or Hawaiis official state birth certificate to get a Texas DL or ID