Today's dispatches has a Kansas man who sued to try and keep Obama off the state balllot. (and was told "no".) The Pest and eFail finally realizes that the State of Hawaii doesn't give out a "long form" anymore, so of course they have to make it some deep dark conspiracy. Mitt Rommey seems to be courting sane Republicans.
Media Matters covers the World Nut Daily / Donald Trump link, The Pest and eFail lie about Hawaiian State Law (and, well, everything else). Rep. Eric Cantor hopes Trump isn't being serious. Arizona's undead birther bill makes it out of the state senate, and Lucas Smith's painting gets noticed - and sold.
And a tip of the hat to "Jennifer C", who managed to give me the remaining keys to the puzzle of who is the person using the name "BJ Smartazz". Turns out the birther puppeteer has a long history of insanity. And by insanity, I mean at or beyond Orly Taitz or Theresa Cao level of nuts.
12 April - The De Soto Explorer reports an attempt to keep Barack Obama off the 2012 ballot.
"A Wichita man on Monday petitioned top state officials to keep President Barack Obama off the Kansas ballot in 2012, saying that the president wasn’t eligible for the office because he has failed to prove he was born in the United States.
“I’m saying that he (Obama) is going to file documents to be on the Kansas ballot. At the time, I would like the state of Kansas to be prepared,” said David Merton Shultz."
The result?
"The State Objections Board rejected Shultz’s request by a 3-0 vote, with members agreeing that the petition was too early. Under state law, any challenge of a candidate being on the ballot must be made within three days of that candidate officially filing his or her candidacy in the state."
And he's a repeat offender
"In 2010, Kobach said Obama would resolve questions about his citizenship by producing a detailed birth certificate. A year before that, he joked at a GOP barbecue that Obama and God shared something in common because neither has a birth certificate.
Shultz, 63, who described himself as a movie prop engineer, said he has done hundreds of hours of research and has concluded that Obama, a Democrat, hasn’t proved he was born in this country. That would make him ineligible to be president because the U.S. Constitution says only natural born citizens of the United States may be eligible for the office, he said."
But he's not a racist, honest!
"Shultz questioned the validity of Obama’s certificate of live birth, and said Obama’s supporters have spent a lot of time and money to smear those who question where he was born as racists or so-called birthers."
Well, if it wasn't for the fact that so many of the birthers ARE racist......
"Shultz said it was peculiar that a “mulatto baby” was born and yet no one from the hospital remembers the occasion. “That was not a common occurrence. It would stick in someone’s mind,” he said"
1) Racist much?
2) Hawaii has been a melting pot for a long time now. A mixed race child in the early 60's would not be of note.
"Shultz said he would be back at the appropriate time to file a challenge, and asked that state officials pass a law similar to one considered in Arizona in which a candidate for president would be required to show proof of citizenship to get on the ballot. “I’m here to partner with you guys,” Shultz told members of the Objections Board.
But Stegall told him, “The task of this board is not to provide help with you coming back later.”
In other words "go away, you bother us"