After Hawaii quit trolling Arizona's Secretary of State Ken Bennett for asking them to just maybe double-check that Obama was born in the U.S., and sent him the verification of the president's birth records, Bennett says he's sufficiently convinced and Obama will appear on ballots this November.
Maybe they were just sick of it. Hawaii verified President Obama's birth records again (even though it didn't need to) late Tuesday, to Arizona's "I'm not a birther, but my friends are" Secretary of State Ken Bennett.
Hawaii is apparently so sick of people asking for proof of President Obama's birth, that they've turned the tables on Arizona's Secretary of State, demanding that he's the one who has to prove he deserves to see it.
Here's a bit of retro 2008 news: Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is warning that Barack Obama may not be on the state's ballot in November if Hawaii doesn't provide proof of the president's birth certificate. And he's using the very-tired "I'm not a birther, but my constituents are" excuse.
Birtherism is back! More than a year after Barack Obama definitively settled the question of his birthplace by releasing his Hawaii birth certificate the right-wing blogosphere is focusing in on two typos that, if they were not typos, would suggest that he was born in Kenya. But this time the message is it's all Obama's fault.
Breitbart's senior management appended a long editor's note to their post that "exposes" a promotional booklet from President Obama's literary agency in 1991 that describes him as "born in Kenya," and their justification for running with it is ridiculously thin.
Doing his best to shift attention from the Federal investigations into his office's discrimination against Latinos and abuses of power, Arizona's notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio is resorting to a well-worn headline-grabber: birtherism.
Rick Perry explained that he isn't trying to reignite the birther issue, "I was having some fun with Donald Trump," in an interview with Tampa Bay's Bay News 9.
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