{"id":814,"date":"2012-09-14T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-09-14T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T16:14:18","slug":"kansas-sec-of-state-considering-removing-president-obamas-name-from-the-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/09\/kansas-sec-of-state-considering-removing-president-obamas-name-from-the-ballot.html","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Sec. of State Considering Removing President Obama’s name from the Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019m a Kansan born and bred. I graduated from a state school (K-State), and even cheer for the Jayhawks now and then (not when they play K-State, of course). But I\u2019m feeling a bit embarrassed of my state officials today. Slate is reporting<\/a> that there is a birther initiative to consider taking president Obama\u2019s name off the ballot in Kansas on the grounds that he\u2019s not really a citizen of the U.S. Here\u2019s an excerpt from the article.<\/p>\n

Evan McMorris-Santoro and Ryan J. Reilly have\u00a0a good explaine<\/a>r on a news story that feels utterly surreal.<\/p>\n

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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an\u00a0informal advisor<\/a>\u00a0to 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\u2026 The board will send records requests to Hawaii, Arizona and Mississippi for more documentation of Obama\u2019s birth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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At this point, the birther cult is taking its cues Derrida. No text can be trusted. All texts must be deconstructed. Yes, yes, there are now publicly-available long-form and short-form birth certificates that confirm President Obama\u2019s origins in Hawaii, and there are two contemporary newspaper announcements backing them up. But\u2026 what does it all\u00a0mean<\/em>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Joe Montgomery, the citizen launching these complaints,\u00a0does not care<\/a>\u00a0about the evidence. Before this freak show attracted the national media, the Manhattan (Kansas) Mercury explained what Montgomery\u00a0was looking for.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Montgomery argues that Obama\u2019s name should be stricken from the ballot because he does not meet the constitutional requirement that candidates have been \u201cborn in this country to parents who are both U.S. citizens, primarily to a U.S. citizen father.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Montgomery asserts in his complaint that Obama\u2019s father was not a U.S. citizen. \u201cBarack Obama Sr. retained his British and Kenyan citizenship and passed them on to his son, which Mr. Obama has publicly claimed on his Fight The Smears website,\u201d Montgomery argues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

What do you think of this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I actually think it would be a very good thing for them to do this. It would focus national attention on Kansas. This means that national reporters would dig around in the state, and some of the nutty stuff going on in Topeka might come into the light. Since there is absolutely no possible way that the president could actually win Kansas anyway, it seems like a silly waste of time and taxpayer money. Still, the symbolism of the move would be powerful. I for one hope that they follow through with it and remove his name from the ballot. I think it would do a lot of good to stoke the fire of the moderates in Kansas and raise awareness about what is happening in Kansas state government right now.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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