Gwendolyn: FloydA: ginandbacon: From day 1, HI has handled this with so much humor I feel like I need to go there.

Do so, seriously. It's amazing.

I want to visit but I fry in the sun. I'd have to be in long sleeve, pants, and a big hat with sunglasses the whole trip.

I do like their handling of this.


It won't help. The sun in Hawaii is at a different level than in the continental US. I tan pretty easily and rarely ever burn (I know, CSB), but I had a terrible sun burn in Hawaii. It's like a completely different sun over there. It makes absolutely no sense, but that's how it was.

Highly recommend going. Amazing place.

"I'm not a birther. ..." Bennett said

...

Bennett's newfound birtherism

Why can't libby lib TPM take a Republican at his word?

Please, try to keep him off the ballot. That's not going to cause any sort of backlash or massive, outraged pouring of democrats in other states.

Nope.

Do it. DO IT. I DOUBLE DARE YOU.

If he doesn't put Obama on the ballot, what can legally be done? Do the federal courts have to get involved? What if he still refuses, does the National Guard get called in?

EVERY time one of these(Wright, birf, muslin, etc.) pops up AGAIN another voter thinks, "Oh look, another idiot hates Obama. Do I want to side with the idiots?"

Because People in power are Stupid: Uchiha_Cycliste: Because People in power are Stupid: How many articles are from Arizona today?

We need a tag.

[img.photobucket.com image 54x11]

You see, here's the deal; Florida also has lots of wacky, crazy, scary, stupid, unbelievable and just invariably unique stories. Arizona only sucks. I say it doesn't deserve a tag for sucking so hard.

You've never been to Sedona.
http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/1201115

BTW, I grew up there and might move back someday. I'm just glad I'm not there now.


My wife grew up in Scottsdale, for the first 23 years of her life. And she will never, ever, ever go back.

Obama isn't going to win Arizona anyway, so it's political theater. In all seriousness, though, if I were Obama I would have some very interesting plans for these guys after I won a second term. This guy, Arpaio, a few others. I would absolutely ruin them, and I'll honestly be kind of disappointed if he doesn't.

Nadie_AZ: Here is my proposed solution to all of this. 1. Get rid of retirement communities. 2. Move elections for the state to July.

Very nice plan, because as I've pointed out on here, the Snowbirds get to vote after something like only either 3 or 4 months in-state out of the entire entire year, so they're the farktards who are screwing up your state.

Where there are snowbirds, there are mounds of derp.

How many emails can we send to him asking about romney's birth status?

Boy I hope Obama doesn't show up on the ballot in Arizona. Not enough popcorn in the world.

So if we get 1200 people to write him emails, claiming that Romney wasn't born in the US, would he do the same? Assuming of course that those same people would deny the authenticity of any birth certificate that Romney released.

Or is this something that's only done when the candidate has dark skin and a foreign sounding name?

Racism at is so entrenched in the republican party, it'd be funny if they didn't hold so much power.

How do states usually handle this? Birther bullshiat aside, a candidate has to prove they're old enough, live in the right place, and meet whatever other requirements depending on the election. Do they just fill out a form?

GreenAdder: The situation in a nutshell:

Imagine if I told you I had a copy of "Evil Dead 2" on DVD. You don't believe me. So I finally show you my copy of "Evil Dead 2," and you insist that it's fake. It must be some sort of Chinese bootleg version, something I downloaded from BitTorrent, or some other form of fakery.

So some independent third party comes out, verifies that my copy of "Evil Dead 2" is legit, and wonders why you would even question it in the first place. It's like a $5 DVD and it's not exactly rare. But you persist, and move the goalposts a little.

Now you're no longer interested in the DVD itself, but the receipt. That's the linchpin of this whole works now. Sure, it might be a legit DVD, can I provide proof that I actually purchased it?

Now don't forget the bio from 20 years ago that has you listing Bruce Campbell as an asshat. THAT is proof that you really don't own Evil Dead 2, even when the copy editor admits to not fact checking your statements about Mr Campbell.

What happened to the patriotism of the right? I remember when it was treasonous to question Bush's motives to go to war. Now you can call the president a marxist traitor. Man, how the world changes in a few years.

Please don't let the non-stop fountain of shiat spewing from my state influence you into believing that these people represent the entire population of Arizona.

Marcus Aurelius: Bennett, the state's No. 2 elected official just below Gov. Jan Brewer (R), said his investigation isn't personal. He said the reason he started looking into it is because he got more than 1,200 emails asking him to do so after Arpaio's investigation came out

So if he got 1200 emails asking him to investigate Santa Claus he'd be on the next flight to the Arctic?

Sure.

No, he'd just sent a letter to the North Pole demanding that Santa stay out of Arizona unless he has papers proving he's in the country legally.

Because People in power are Stupid: Uchiha_Cycliste: Because People in power are Stupid: How many articles are from Arizona today?

We need a tag.

[img.photobucket.com image 54x11]

You see, here's the deal; Florida also has lots of wacky, crazy, scary, stupid, unbelievable and just invariably unique stories. Arizona only sucks. I say it doesn't deserve a tag for sucking so hard.

You've never been to Sedona.
http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/1201115

BTW, I grew up there and might move back someday. I'm just glad I'm not there now.

Sedona's becoming too much of a tourist mecca for me. I still prefer Bisbee... Flagstaff was nice, but ridiculously expensive to live in.

sigdiamond2000: It's not possible for these people to make any bigger fools of themselves than they already have

The problem is that Republicans view this as a challenge.

HawgWild: FTFA: Bennett said he was following the lead of the state's eccentric Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a fellow Republican who ordered an investigation into the president's birth certificate last year and concluded the document released by the White House is a forgery.

So ... the Secretary of State is following the lead of a county sheriff?

With any luck, he'll follow Sheriff Joe wherever Sheriff Joe goes . . . .

Population of Arizona: 6,482,505.
1,200 is 0.0001% of that.

I would love to see a new rush of emails asking, "Why the hell are you wasting your time and our money on this?"

Theaetetus: My guess is yes, you'd get an immediate suit for an injunction and writ of mandamus filed in federal court based on equal protection and the right to vote, which would be granted. Arizona could appeal, but they'd lose. If they still refuse to put Obama on the ballot, at that point, criminal contempt provisions might apply, and U.S. Marshals could be sent in.
It wouldn't get that far.

The farthest it would most likely get would be the guy publicly "reluctantly" putting him on the ballot anyway but making a big fu(king drama queen attention whore stink over the whole thing by claiming brown shirts visited him. He could also 'accidentally' misspell Obama's name or put the wrong party. I'd love to see the future screen shots of ballots if this happened. The lulz would be epic.

qorkfiend: Population of Arizona: 6,482,505.
1,200 is 0.0001% of that.

I would love to see a new rush of emails asking, "Why the hell are you wasting your time and our money on this?"

Sorry, 0.01%.

I'm gonna laugh so hard when Obama gets re-elected, fixes the economy, successfully winds down millitary action, jump starts education, overhauls the health system resulting in dramatic improvements in the health of americas, and basically solves all of our current problems and establishing a true golden age for America that lasts for a century and on his last day if office goes all 'lol, jk, born in kenya! seeya!'

Can anything be proven? Does anyone besides myself even exist or are you all just a mad dream?

vygramul: [www.bitlogic.com image 640x353]

Man, I didn't think ANYONE would be able to improve on that picture, it is hilarious as-is, but you have managed to exceed my expectations...

malaktaus: Obama isn't going to win Arizona anyway, so it's political theater. In all seriousness, though, if I were Obama I would have some very interesting plans for these guys after I won a second term. This guy, Arpaio, a few others. I would absolutely ruin them, and I'll honestly be kind of disappointed if he doesn't.

Arpaio is already under investigation by the Justice Department for descriminating against minorities, amoung other things (I am Jack's complete lack of surprise on that one).

As for Obama winning Arizona, he does have a shot of winning the state, although he is the underdog. One poll last month actually had him ahead in the state by two points.

what_now: "Or the other option would be I would ask all of candidates, including the president, maybe to submit a certified copy of their birth certificate. But I don't want to do that."

Of course not. The other candidates are not black.

To be fair, the FEC really should be getting this information from candidates. Part of the reason I found it so easy to dismiss the birthers' claims right from the start is that I assumed the FEC already did things like that. I only found out later that they don't, though by that time there was plenty of other reason to dismiss birthers as the racists and dupes of racists that they had become.

It will forever be a stain upon our history that this problem was brought up by the birthers as part of their transparent attempt to keep a black man from becoming President. But a broken clock is still right twice a day, and so in this and this alone they've got a point. There should be a process for this sort of thing.

Still no need to bring Presidential vetting to a state level, though. States should vet candidates for their own elected offices, but the Presidency is a federal office, so the FEC should have jurisdiction.

Gwendolyn: FloydA: ginandbacon: From day 1, HI has handled this with so much humor I feel like I need to go there.

Do so, seriously. It's amazing.

I want to visit but I fry in the sun. I'd have to be in long sleeve, pants, and a big hat with sunglasses the whole trip.

I do like their handling of this.

SPF +100

I spent hours in hot Florida sun with this stuff (and a big hat) and lived.

Reward Hawaii for their dedication to ensuring that only the properly authorized people can access their records. Wouldn't want some furriner imposer getting access to them, don't ya know.