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Obama, Rubio Birthers Should Read the Law

Sapient Wrote: May 29, 2012 4:32 PM
Good deal Re: they should read the law. And, i suppose, that means enforcing the law too if it is not complied with?? Of course, before we do that ,a court has to decide what laws apply. None of which has been done---has it? Well, the accepted way to handle all that is with evidence, objective evidence, admissible in court, in a court, with both sides represented by counsel, capable of appeal, etc.. Funny thing, none of that has been done either. And, the side that says the law has been satisfied just doesn't want to go there, much preferring to call people all kinds of pejoratives...like other elitists with something to hide. Take it to court and put it to bed regardless of where the evidence leads.

Birtherism -- the belief that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not in the United States -- pretty much died last year when the White House released a copy of the president's long-form birth certificate showing he was born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. After that, the number of Americans who doubted Obama's place of birth dropped dramatically.

But not to zero. In recent days, there has been a mini-resurgence of birther talk, from Arizona, where the secretary of state questioned Obama's eligibility to be on the ballot, to Iowa, where some Republicans want to require presidential candidates to prove...

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