Comments on Advance Indiana™: Niki Kelly Smears Delph Legislation On Presidential Ballot Access

You don't know what you're talking about d...

2011-01-17T11:58:49.569-05:00

You don't know what you're talking about daenke32. In the case of John McCain, he would have had a birth certificate showing his birth in Panama. This would allow a candidate like him whose father was serving in the military at the time to offer additional evidence of his eligibility since it would not clearly be established on the face of his birth certificate. Obama has a Hawaii birth certificate to establish his birth there. There is disagreement over whether one's birth in the US alone is adequate to satisfy the natural born citizen requirement where one or both of the parents are not US citizens. This legislation does not attempt to define what a natural born citizen means. It would be up to the courts to offer an interpretation if a state election authority ruled one way or the other on that issue if a challenge existed. With this legislation, a candidate can present the proof and, if his or her eligibility is challenged, the election authority can make a ruling based on its interpretation of what it means.

It is a birther legislation. I read the bill. Whil...

2011-01-17T11:25:29.682-05:00

It is a birther legislation. I read the bill. While it sets a requirement of submitting a 'birth certificate', it also requires to submit also 'other documentation', which is not specified. That means that the part chair in charge can do exactly what the birthers have done: arbitrary requests for proof of eligibility.

The President already has provided his eligibility, but the birthers still aren't happy.

James, I would be remiss if I didn't remind yo...

2011-01-10T11:53:49.441-05:00

James, I would be remiss if I didn't remind you it was Obama who compared Republicans in Congress to hostage takers recently. Aren't hostage takers generally considered terrorists?

I think anybody who could have their college paper...

2011-01-10T11:28:14.625-05:00

I think anybody who could have their college papers locked away do so, except for the brave. Few enough of them in politics. Personally, I'd find former President George W. Bush's papers quite interesting, if any.

Anything in the Harvard Law Reivew can be found be looking them up at a library. Most people just are too lazy to get up from their computers.

Anybody want to explain why Obama has spent more t...

2011-01-10T11:14:16.608-05:00

Anybody want to explain why Obama has spent more than $ONE MILLION keeping his "birth certificate" locked away?
And his college records?
And any papers he published in the 3 colleges he said he attended?
And the papers he should have written as president of the Harvard Law School Law Review?
Etc. etc. etc.

No change on my part, varangianguard. I believe Ha...

2011-01-10T10:18:43.815-05:00

No change on my part, varangianguard. I believe Hawaii officials when they say Obama has a birth recorded there in accordance with state laws and procedures. Federal law permits states to adopt any form of creating birth records that they so choose. Hawaii has chosen a method that allows even persons who weren't born in Hawaii to have their births registered there. As long as Obama refuses to produce the original record recorded with Hawaii there will be people who will have doubts about the validity of his birth in Hawaii. The GAO documented the problem of birth certificate fraud in this country and the nonuniformity in state laws governing them several years ago. The GAO saw a need for a uniform law governing birth certificates. Nobody has chosen to address that problem. Indiana's law governing birth certificates is not a problem in that regard, and our state law can't change what other states do.

Concerned Taxpayer: No, everybody doesn't kno...

2011-01-10T08:27:02.403-05:00

Concerned Taxpayer:

No, everybody doesn't know that.And this is exactly the kind of nonsense rhetoric that needs to be toned down.

The only smear that's been going on is the Right smearing President Obama - by trying desperately to link him to terrorism, that he isn't constitutionally permitted to be President, etc.

Do I detect a change in tone about President Obama...

2011-01-10T08:14:39.153-05:00

Do I detect a change in tone about President Obama's status? ;)

CT, why do you feel the need to modify the term "leftist" with the adjective "liberal"? Isn't a "leftist" by defintion someone who is not of a conservative philosophical bent to begin with?
It would seem that adding "liberal" is just making it redundant.

Everyone knows that the 4th Estate is nothing but ...

2011-01-09T15:19:49.038-05:00

Everyone knows that the 4th Estate is nothing but the mouthpiece of the liberal leftists in this country.