[teletech]

What I fail to understand is that given the very real possibility that Obama IS an illegal president, WHY haven’t the states taken action to put a law into effect that prevents an ineligible candidate from getting on the ballot? To date, isn’t Arizona the ONLY state that has done so?

[only1percent]

WHY haven’t the states taken action to put a law into effect that prevents an ineligible candidate from getting on the ballot?

Because Democrat legislators think such laws are anti-Obama and Republicans think suppporting such laws makes them look bad.

Should strong evidence emerge that Obama was born outside the US, the likely reaction will be legislation that declares that birth to a US citizen anywhere in the world and regardless of age of the US citizen parent or nationality of the other parent retroactively confers NBC status; legislation which solid majorities of Republicans will vote for and which the courts will refuse to overturn considering it a political question. (Nationality-of-father arguments won't provoke any reaction by themselves because they are nearly-universally disregarded, and no court will intervene.)

Obama is beaten at the ballot booth or not at all.

[Kimberly GG]

...”a law into effect that prevents an ineligible candidate from getting on the ballot?”

Call me naive, but don’t such laws already exist and why does it seem to me that lately we are always needing new laws to enforce the laws we’ve already got?