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Apart from this, the fact remains that we need a public procedure and process for challenge and remedy on the issue of a person’s constitutional eligibility to serve as POTUS.
It’s appalling that after the debacle this issue has become in these years, that Legislatures are simply willing to lope into the future, courting the same madness, which otherwise can be rather simply avoided.
If one state would pass an eligibility statute, the matter can be litigated and settled. There is no downside to this.
The fact that states now seem disinclined to pursue such a reasonable course lends credence to the criticism that the “birther” issue was only about “getting” Obama. It was not. It was, for many, simply about vouchsafing the Constitutional standard by enacting a public procedure and process that addressed the modern circumstance of complicated parentage and birthplace questions.
Exactly.
At this point Obama could confess to being born out of the country to 2 people with no affiliation with the US at all, committing forgery, perjury, obstruction of justice, murder, etc, and specifically being inaugurated for the purpose of destroying the country.... and it would make no difference whatsoever because nobody who could do anything about it would do anything, and the media would call it a joke.
That should scare the heck out of every sane person in this country.
The fact that it doesn’t tells me we’re living in a nuthouse.
So what do we do about it?
Nebraska has a crazy (unconstitutional?) ballot initiative process - the sour grapes of a state senator who got kicked out by term limits passed by a ballot initiative. And Soros threatening Fox and other media companies is a bummer because it means there aren’t even any decent local radio people who will behave in a sane manner on this issue either. I can’t even stand to listen to any of them any more; they just disgust me.
I guess we need to read up on how placement on state ballots has to be challenged, when, and by whom. Maybe we need to get somebody to run as a democrat so they can challenge Obama in court during the primary. It might be painful to see the courts gyrate to claim lack of standing. Sigh.