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“There IS no birth certificate anymore. It does not exist. An electronic record exists.”

You may be misinterpreting a statement by Hawaii regarding its shift in record-keeping practices. However, even if your statement is true, your point adds nothing of substance to the discussion.

“Only Congress can determine if he fails to qualify, and only when it counts the Electoral Votes.”

Now here we disagree.

“If the Electoral College elects Mickey Mouse and the Congress accepts such an election is the nation bound by that finding, or may Congress subsequently take action to correct the Constitutional defect?

The biggest part of this shell game is that Obama and his operatives have convinced most of America that we have the burden of proving O is unqualified. While at the same time they have “sealed” and in one instance forged the very record that would be used for such purpose.

It is exactly the opposite, O has always had the burden of proving he is qualified. He acknowledged that burden when he signed or arranged for his agent(s) to sign each state’s primary election certification that he was qualified/eligible for the office of the president. Such execution was made, of course, under penalty of perjury.

Later, during the January 8, 2009 Joint Session called solely for the purpose of assuring America that the election was conducted properly, Obama had the burden of satisfying any request by Congress to demonstrate his citizenship (see 20th Amendment, “…if the President elect shall have failed to qualify…” as well as 3 USC 15).

Every liberal I have argued with has conceded that if Congress had required such prior to accepting the work of the Electoral College, Obama was obligated to produce, or to authorize Hawaii to produce, a verifiably authentic BC.

Should Congress have requested that document?
Without question, particularly in the face of the substantial pre-election concern and outrage transmitted to Congress over the fact that there was absolutely nothing in the public record that demonstrated O was a U.S. citizen.

He may be qualified, but there is no reason to believe so and Congress had a duty to the nation to act on the issue.

Which is why I have previously stated that every single Republican in Congress was seduced into going limp and sitting on their hands during the Session.

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