Republican wants WH candidates to prove citizenship

CNN Political Ticket ^ | 3/13/2009 | Mark Preston

[AJMCQ]

Rep. Bill Posey, R-Florida, introduced legislation this week requiring candidates to produce a birth certificate to be eligible to run in future presidential elections, triggering a sharp reaction from Democrats who accused him of "questioning President Obama's citizenship." Posey submitted a bill with no fanfare Thursday that instructs the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to be amended to add the birth certificate requirement. The Constitution requires that a president or a vice president be "a natural born citizen." Read: Posey's bill During the presidential campaign, some people — mostly Republicans — questioned whether Obama, who was born in Hawaii, was a U.S. citizen. Obama's mother was a U.S. citizen, while his father was from Kenya. Obama produced a certified copy of his birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health, but critics argued that it was a fake or had been altered. The Supreme Court has turned down several requests that it hear challenges to the president's citizenship. "Opponents of President Bush used the 2000 election results and the court decisions to question the legitimacy of President Bush to serve as President," Posey said in a statement. "Opponents of President Obama are raising the birth certificate issue as a means of questioning his eligibility to serve as president. Neither of these situations are healthy for our Republic. "This bill, by simply requiring such documentation for future candidates for President will remove this issue as a reason for questioning the legitimacy of a candidate elected as President." Posey spokesman George Cecala emphasized several times to CNN that the congressman was "not trying to fan the flames" of the Obama citizenship dust-up nor was he "trying to jab someone in the eye." Instead, Posey was "just trying to clarify the law,"

[Lumper20]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=birther

TY: I would never have known their hateful codewords.

[Liz]

Circa 1987 Menendez said: “I don’t look at it that I am supporting ‘a murderer’....I am supporting a goal, which is the liberation of Cuba.”

And Obama is making Menendez' dream come true (gag).

[justiceseeker93]

...one of the greatest frauds of all time.

If Obama was indeed born in Kenya, then it would be the most significant fraud in American history!

[Dustbunny]

It’s a good idea and honest people have no reason to oppose it.

Exactly !!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93 and Liz.