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NRaleighLiberal

(60,006 posts)
Thu Sep 13, 2012, 11:04 PM Sep 2012

What's the matter with Kansas? KANSAS GOES BIRTHER... [View all]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/kansas_birther_kris_kobach.php?ref=fpa

"Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.

Kobach is part of the State Objections Board along with Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, all Republicans. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that on Thursday the board agreed consider whether to take Obama off the ballot because they said they lacked sufficient evidence about his birth certificate.

“I don’t think it’s a frivolous objection,” Kobach said, according to the Capital-Journal. “I do think the factual record could be supplemented.”

The board is looking at a complaint filed by Joe Montgomery, of Manhattan, Kan., who claimed the Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen and so is ineligible to be president. The man appears to be part of a group of conspiracy theorists known as “birthers,” who deny Obama’s birth certificate is real."

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what's next....all red states seceding?
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seceding? no, they are all on welfare from blue states nt msongs Sep 2012 #1
And it's going to get worse, because of Brownback's newly passed tax plan. patrice Sep 2012 #4
a.ka. Naomi Klein's Disaster Capitalism patrice Sep 2012 #5
People should remember that Kobach also represents the anti-Choice faction here, which means patrice Sep 2012 #2
The other decision makers in this are all republicans, it looks like Obama will not be on the ballot AlinPA Sep 2012 #11
DISGUSTING! We are a private "petri dish" for Koch's PRIVATE experiment in Disaster Capitalism. nt patrice Sep 2012 #14
So what evidence do they have that Romney was born in the U.S. that's more solid than Obama's? Mayberry Machiavelli Sep 2012 #3
There have been over 100 birther lawsuits and ballot challenges so far. This is nothing new... Tx4obama Sep 2012 #6
Gee, what a swell guy. JeffersonLoveChild Sep 2012 #7
It won't matter. Kansas wouldn't vote for a black Democratic candidate anyway. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #8
I think it matters, probably 40% of voters there would vote that way CreekDog Sep 2012 #9
My vote doesn't count in most elections here, but I still vote. It's a solid red district. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #10
I understand your situation - completely - I live in Texas powergirl Sep 2012 #12
well if you think that "doesn't matter" then you're wrong CreekDog Sep 2012 #13
Then let me rephrase it - it won't impact the vote in our district. HopeHoops Sep 2012 #15
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