Arizona just passed a bill into law requiring that Presidential candidates present their birth certificates when running for office. This, in and of itself, is a little odd. The Federal Election Commission regulates such matters, so I'm not quite sure how a state law interacts with that, but that's not what I'm concerned about.
Clearly, the Arizona Legislature is full of conspiracy theorists.
Let's run the scenario that President Obama presents his birth certificate to anyone who wants to inspect it. What then? What standard of proof would those people who question his citizenship apply that is greater than that of the FEC?
The answer is: they wouldn't accept it. Ok, so we go to the next step: the President presents his birth certificate that is then authenticated by the Registrar of Births in Hawai'i. Is that enough proof? The answer will be: no. See the sentence about conspiracy theorists.
That's what makes the birther movement so... strange. Here you have a President, duly elected by the populace in accordance with the laws concerning elections, with a birth certificate authenticated by the appropriate State authority, and it's STILL NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
At which point does the demand for authenticity cross over into conspiracy? If you reason this it out, this means that at some point since 1961, President Obama hatched a plot to be illegally elected as President of the United States by defrauding the FEC, and conspired with every official in the Great State of Hawai'i that is involved with births to continue the charade that he was actually born in Honolulu Hawai'i. Further than that, the DNC conspired to keep this deception quiet, and the FEC itself was complicit in the coverup.
I have to admit, it sounds pretty far-fetched even for my deranged mind. Arizona: you need to take a leaf out of New Mexico's book and locate Area 52 in the borders of your state. That way we can get back to the tried and true conspiracy that the Government is covering up UFOs.
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