Bill Passed to Require Proof of Citizenship

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Ashley Loera

The Arizona State Legislature approved a bill Thursday that would require presidential candidates to prove they are American citizens before they are put on the ballot.

The measure arises amidst the current controversy over President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and its legitimacy. Critics contend Obama was born in his father’s home country of Kenya simply because the document does not list the doctor and hospital’s name.

The legislation, if signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, would keep Obama off the ballots in Arizona for the presidential race of 2012. Fourteen other states are considering similar legislation this year, according to a senior fellow with the National Conference of State Legislature.

Donald Trump is a big supporter of the bill, as he has been making headlines recently asking for additional proof of Obama’s birthplace. Trump is also a possible Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential election.

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  • borderraven

    Kenya Aviation
    Obama’s parents married on February 2, 1961, and by estimation of gestation (based on the published date of birth) she was 3-months pregnant with Jr. These two were college students and newlyweds. His kin and her in-laws were in Kenya. There were three airports in the British Kenya Colony and Protectorate, as early as 1938, at (East to West) Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. The Kisumu airport is about 26-miles from where Obama’s family lives. If the parents went to Kenya on school holidays, and boarded a flight home in Kisumu-Nairobi-Mombasa. Pregnancy complication could have forced a stay in Mombasa, with delivery in Coast Province General Hospital, Mombasa, British Kenya Colony and Protectorate. Classes started in September.
    Map: http://bit.ly/gitPQR

  • borderraven

    FactCheck.org, says” FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate.”
    We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. ”

    Then where are the photos of the “original birth certificate”?

    Why did FactCheck.org only post a “prima facie copy”?

  • misa

    I saw an original long form birth certificate of a friend from Hawaii, born in that era. It has far more information, signatures, name of hospital, etc. It costs about $10 to get.

    There is not one living witness who was present in the hospital at the birth of the most famous and powerful man in the world today?

    To change the law to fit the lie, Hawaii now only gives CertificaTIONs of live birth.

  • Marisa Lorah

    Critics believe that Obama was born in Kenya because his grandmother said she witnessed his birth there. Also, because he refuses to release his birth certificate. Something obviously is on that piece of paper that he does not want the public to see. Unfortunately, one cannot be president without releasing one’s birth certificate. We made a mistake in 2008 but it won’t be repeated. We will have a new president in 2012, and hopefully it will be Donald Trump.

  • morris wise

    There are no bells ringing in the Trump casinos for losers, he pays out big for winners and throws losers out the door. That is the way Trump will run the nation as president. His main job will be in getting rid of deadbeats. His presidential approval ratings will depend on how fast he fires them and boots them out the door.

  • SamSewell

    Just a Reminder – Before he was nominated AKA Obama Signed Resolution Describing Him As Ineligible
    Obama Signed Resolution Describing Him As Ineligible

    Yet the Obots still argue that Obama is eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

    On April 10, 2008, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a ‘natural born Citizen,’ as specified in the Constitution and eligible to run for president. Sen. McCaskill knew Obama was not a U.S. Citizen, that’s why she introduced this bill — dressing it up to look like it was in Sen. John McCain’s cause.

    It was during the bill’s hearing that Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement:

    “Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” said Leahy. “I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate.”

    At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.

    “My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied.

    “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.

    What’s interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary, confirms that a “natural born” citizen is the child of American citizen parents.

    Parents — that’s two. That’s BOTH parents.

  • DubV

    Orly Tait seems to be alive and well. Continue to use flawed statistical data and conspiracy theory.

    @Sam Seswell, your theory of McCaskill’s bill being correlated to the citizenship status of Barack Obama is pretty far fetched. Do you have any primary data proving such a proposal? I’m a critic of any and all elected officials but the undeniable theme of race and prejudice seems to cloud many a tea party mind. Republicans have gone beyond the obvious and moved on with political measures. Arizona had a voice of reasons with Congress person Gifford but a voice of dissent in a wave of draconian and prejudice officials is not enough. As far as releasing his PRIVATE information I don’t think that would be very safe or practical. First of all why would anybody put out their personal information like that. To pick up a birth certificate you must be the Parent, Legal Guardian, or the actual person named on the birth certificate. Logic before rhetoric. A Prima Facie copy would ensure that it is authentic; it is not meant to appease the irrational people commentating on this story.

  • Sean

    Marisa, yes, let us hope that the new president of the United States is Donald Trump…a man who raked in money as a business running a reality television show where he brought in a bunch of people and only offered one success….true GOP style.

  • Alai

    Trump would be better than Obama.

  • Sean

    Can you birth conspiracy freaks relax now? The White House has presented this piece of paper that all of you have been losing sleep over….As students, we should have more important issues to worry about, such as, skyrocketing education costs.

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