The state of Arizona continues to be a sad joke for the rest of the country. First it passed a stringent immigration bill that gave police sweeping powers that would essentially allow them to step to any and all people they perceived as being ion this country illegally. Translation: Arizona stepped back to the horrific days of Apartheid South Africa with a ‘Let Me See Your ID‘ law that would undoubtly target Mexican and Mexican Americans..
Next we have Senator John McCain who appeared on the Bill O’Reilly show to weighed in on the hoopla around the law and decided to make the outlandish statement about Mexicans illegals were intentionally running down people. He later backtracked and tried to explain himself. He said he was referring to people near the border fleeing law enforcement. We say it was John McCain having flashbacks of his POW days when he felt compelled to refer to his Vietenamese captors as ‘Gooks’.
Today we now have Arizona trying to pass a law demanding that the President show his birth certificate if he expects to be on the 2012 ballot.. Yes Arizona the new cradle for dumbness and white supremacy..(I guess thats a redundant statement) has now officially joined the ‘Birther Movement’. Unbelievable.
-Davey D-
PHOENIX – Arizona lawmakers expressing doubt over whetherPresident Barack Obama was born in the United States are pushing a bill through the Legislature that would require the president to show hisbirth certificate to get on the state’s 2012 ballot.
The House passed the measure Wednesday on a 31-29 vote, ignoring protests from opponents who said it’s casting Arizona in an ugly light and could give the elected secretary of state broad powers to kick apresidential candidate off the ballot.
“We’re becoming a national joke,” Rep. Chad Campbell, a Phoenix Democrat who opposes the measure, said Thursday.
The measure’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Judy Burges of Skull Valley, said she isn’t sure Obama could prove his eligibility for the ballot in Arizona and wants to erase all doubts.
“You have half the population who thinks everything is fine, and you have the other half of the population who has had doubts built up in their mind,” Burges said.
So-called “birthers” have contended since the 2008 presidential campaign that Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born in Kenya, his father’s homeland. TheConstitution says that a person must be a “natural-born citizen” to be eligible for the presidency.
Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed Obama’s citizenship, and his Hawaiian birth certificate has been made public, along with birth notices from two Honolulu newspapers published within days of his birth in August 1961.
Courts have rebuffed lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility, but the issue hasn’t gone away. Lawmakers have introduced similar bills in a handful of other states. They include Oklahoma, where a measure passed the House but failed in the Senate, and Missouri, where a bill was withdrawn before any action was taken.
Eleven U.S. House Republicans have signed on to a federal bill, but it hasn’t received a hearing in the Democrat-controlled House.
Arizona’s measure would require U.S. presidential candidates to submit documents to the secretary of state proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president. The secretary of state could then decide to keep a candidate off the Arizona ballot if he or she had reasonable cause to believe the candidate was ineligible.
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett opposes the bill, arguing it gives his office too much power, according to his spokesman Matthew Benson. Benson said Bennett, a Republican, has no doubts about Obama’s citizenship.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where supporters are trying to pull together enough votes to pass the measure. If they do, it’s unclear if Republican Gov. Jan Brewer will give it her support. Her spokesman, Paul Senseman, said the governor won’t comment on pending legislation, but he added she doesn’t have doubts about Obama’s citizenship.
The measure comes amid a string of controversial proposals in Arizona that have garnered national attention, including a sweeping illegal immigration crackdown awaiting action by the governor and a measure allowing people to carry concealed weapons without permits. The governor signed the gun bill last week.
Rep. Tom Chabin, D-Flagstaff, pleaded with his colleagues to oppose the birth certificate measure Wednesday.
“When you undermine the sitting president of the United States, you undermine our nation, and it makes us look very ugly,” Chabin said Thursday.
But some supporters insist the bill isn’t aimed at Obama, it’s just common sense.
“It’s our ballot,” said state Sen. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, who believes Obama has proven his citizenship. “The parties need to prove that their nominee is eligible to hold the office of president to be on our ballot.”
original story: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/President-Barack-Obama
The funny thing about it is…
Wasn’t John McCain born in Panama…
These people are a joke that should be taken very serious..
Thanks everyone
Just some more fly-over territory. This is on the same level of gawking at those drug lords across the border when their profits are from north of the border…SMH!
Given that the State of Arizona is upholding the law we very much look forward to moving there!
What is so difficult to understand in the definition of the word illegal?