Gov. Jindal will sign 'birther' bill if it reaches his desk

[sasha031]

BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal would sign a bill requiring presidential candidates to provide a copy of their birth certificate to qualify for the Louisiana ballot if it reaches his desk, a spokesman said Monday.

Ted Jackson/The Times-Picayune
A spokesman says Gov. Bobby Jindal will sign a bill to require presidential candidates to provide a birth certificate as proof of citizenship.
"It's not part of our package, but if the Legislature passes it we'll sign it," press secretary Kyle Plotkin said.
House Bill 561 was filed last week by two Republican lawmakers. President Barack Obama's citizenship has been challenged by some groups, derisively called "birthers," despite numerous independent investigations finding that documents and contemporary news reports show that Obama was born in Hawaii.
The bill by state Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, and Sen. A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell, would require federal candidates who want to appear on Louisiana ballots to file an affidavit attesting to their citizenship, which would have to be accompanied by an "original or certified copy" of their birth certificate.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/04/gov_jindal_will_sign_birther_b.html

[NYC Liberal]

1. So he'll provide what he's already provided.

Then the burden of proof will be on them to prove their whack job conspiracy theory if they want to question it.

[Egalitariat]

2. On the one hand, it's awful silly for them to be pursuing this whole birther thing with Obama

but it's a distraction for them, not for us. So I'm all for them having at it.

On the other hand, these rules do make a little bit of sense to me. If I had to prove I was legally eligible to have a job making sandwiches at a strip mall deli, then surely the President would have to prove he or she was legally eligible to have that job, too.

And like you said, all President Obama will have to do is roll in there with his Hawaii birth certificate and that will be that.

[MatthewStLouis]

3. Can any of them step out of thier fantasy world and say 'enough already!'?

How could any thinking person ever want to take any of these republicans seriously? This birther stuff is such BS.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Bobby Jindal is not fit to command a pet turtle.

Nor to oversee a "series" Mumblety-peg contest.

[Brewman_Jax]

5. He might want to re-think that

since he looks too much like one of "those people" anyway. :silly: