why you do me like this, nebraska?

[intertribal]

Mark Christensen doesn't want me to run for president in Nebraska.  He's sponsoring a "birther" bill in the state legislature that would require presidential candidates to provide long-form birth certificates to accompany the following sworn affidavit: "On the day I was born, both my birth father and my birth mother were citizens of the United

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[asakiyume]

In bringing up the possibility of foreign allegiance the bill is also, essentially, punishing children for the "sins" of their fathers (the sin: being a foreign national, or even just being born in a foreign country - LB654 isn't exactly clear, but I don't think law is Christensen's strong suit). Ironically, these are the same people who don't want to feel guilty about being from slave-owning, Jim Crow-enforcing stock, because that's punishing them for the sins of their fathers.

Don't you love how people's analogical thinking only works in one direction and not the other?

None of my children could be president if that bill got passed, seeing as their father isn't an American citizen.

[intertribal]

Well, they probably have foreign allegiances. RIGHT?

[asakiyume]

It's insane, really.

[nihilistic_kid]

Hmm, I wouldn't qualify either.

[intertribal]

That's it: the whole purpose of the bill was to keep you off the ballot.

[barry_king]

"Birther" is a MOVEMENT? Oh, I cry at the flood of stupid that swirls madly, distracting the eye from the big heist.

[intertribal]

I think, based on some of the comments by the "birthers" on the Journal Star site, that they call the rest of us "faithers." As in, we have faith that Obama is a U.S. citizen. Ironic though considering faith is usually a positive word for conservatives.

[talea_st_amour]

I agree wholeheartedly, this is so scarily stupid sometimes, the fear-mongering that needs a scapegoat to legitimize itself and to blame every problem we face as a nation because they're too afraid to look in the mirror.

[intertribal]

Forty years from now we'll have someone new to play the boogeyman role.