I am searching for a way to say this gracefully, but there isn't, so here goes:
Your side is constantly and forever harping on how the Constitution is being trampled. Yet all that has to happen for you guys to throw it out the window is to lose one election.
The US Constitution says, in no uncertain terms, that every state must recognize the certifications of all other states. This prevents national chaos. It's why you can drive across interstate lines, just to take one seemingly trivial example.
Hawaii has stated the following:
1 - It does not give out long form birth certificates anymore.
2 - It does give out what it issued in this case, which certifies that he was born in Hawaii.
Obama has no obligation whatsoever here. The State of Hawaii does. It has fulfilled its obligation under the Constitution.
If you have any sort of beef whatsoever, which I doubt, it is with the State of Hawaii, not with Obama. If you think about it, no one actually knows where they were born; they have to take the word of their parents. In the US and other advanced countries, you can also go and get yourself a certificate that will back up what your parents say.
So, Obama was told he was born in the US, and for him that's all he needs. The US was told by Hawaii that he was born in the US, and that's all the US needs to certify his legitimacy, as is clearly stated in the Constitution.
If you want to throw that document out and decide that you and some other like-minded folks are in fact correct, guess what, you have to prove it in a court of law to a judge who will decide what documents are real and what documents aren't.
Neither you nor anyone else who agrees with you has come even close to doing this.
In the absence of that, the Constitution holds. If you don't want to recognize that authority, that's fine. No one will bother you, as long as you don't do anything violent to the rest of us.
Just don't expect to be taken seriously.
Your side is constantly and forever harping on how the Constitution is being trampled. Yet all that has to happen for you guys to throw it out the window is to lose one election.
The US Constitution says, in no uncertain terms, that every state must recognize the certifications of all other states. This prevents national chaos. It's why you can drive across interstate lines, just to take one seemingly trivial example.
Hawaii has stated the following:
1 - It does not give out long form birth certificates anymore.
2 - It does give out what it issued in this case, which certifies that he was born in Hawaii.
Obama has no obligation whatsoever here. The State of Hawaii does. It has fulfilled its obligation under the Constitution.
If you have any sort of beef whatsoever, which I doubt, it is with the State of Hawaii, not with Obama. If you think about it, no one actually knows where they were born; they have to take the word of their parents. In the US and other advanced countries, you can also go and get yourself a certificate that will back up what your parents say.
So, Obama was told he was born in the US, and for him that's all he needs. The US was told by Hawaii that he was born in the US, and that's all the US needs to certify his legitimacy, as is clearly stated in the Constitution.
If you want to throw that document out and decide that you and some other like-minded folks are in fact correct, guess what, you have to prove it in a court of law to a judge who will decide what documents are real and what documents aren't.
Neither you nor anyone else who agrees with you has come even close to doing this.
In the absence of that, the Constitution holds. If you don't want to recognize that authority, that's fine. No one will bother you, as long as you don't do anything violent to the rest of us.
Just don't expect to be taken seriously.
