OH MY!

Presidential candidates would have to show birth certificates under Louisiana proposal

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/04/la_legislators_file_bill_to_re.html 

this election cycle is shaping up to be a whole lot of fun......

we have Donald Trump that's making a fool out of himself about the birther thing and then we have the rest of the RINO's and maybe one or two real statesmen that actually care about the direction that the founding fathers' wanted this republic of countries to go.

then we have obama and a few that are thinking about running against him......

should be a bunch of mud slinging.......

i only wish the press was actually non-bias

Actually this would also fit on the "what's on your mind" thread as well.  The Tea Party are holding a national rally and the ""STARS"" are ...wait for it...wait for it ...DONALD TRUMP AND SARAH PALIN!  WTF tea baggers?  really? Sara Bachman is coming to my town.   GREAT.  a bunch of old folks with signs that RAIL "keep the government out of my life and out of my wallet!"   Well guess what elder person on social security and medicare  THE GOVERNMENT IS YOUR LIFE!   You are riding the socialism EXPRESS!  Perplexing to say the least. 

~ Rooka

I believe you meant Michelle Bachman, Rooka...

As for the whole birth certificate nonsense, one need only consider how farfetched the scenario would have to be in order to realize it's beyond ridiculous: that many years ago, in someplace other than Hawaii, a white American woman gave birth to a son, fathered by a black Kenyan man; and lo, someone recognized that this child was destined to someday compete for the office of President of the United States of America and could win...so great pains were taken at that time to have a birth announcement published in a Hawaiian newspaper, in order to provide false documentation that this child was, by birthright, an American citizen, because that citizenship would be challenged by those who would oppose him as a candidate.

Really? Are there intelligent, rational people who honestly believe that this could have happened?

Sara Palin isn't running for POTUS. Her 2012 website was sold and endorsed Ron Paul a month ago. Although RP didn't officially announce to the American people (he's expected in May), he filed his POTUS Exploratory Committee papers January 14, 2011. He'll be in the first debate in South Carolina in May .   ;o) 

This will be exciting  ... as of the April 5th 2011 interview it's only Obama who announced his re-election .. LOL  I think that's funny.

Now Rand on the other hand is gonna ....  LOL

YAY America !!!!

oops...lol I did mean Michelle.  Thanks :)  It was like 1 a.m. when I posted that.

I have mine, its in a folder in the kitchen, its from Spain and I cannot read much of it....... 
I can also come up with a certificate of citizenship that was issued to me when I was about 6 yo.

Where's yours?

What has President Obama done for you to be "particuary fond of him"?

SitasMom, most likely the very reason you have your birth certificate and naturalization document 'in a folder in the kitchen' is because you *weren't* born in the US...whereas most of us who WERE born here don't give a thought about birth certificates unless we need to produce one for something such as getting a passport, etc. (being born here, we don't have 'certificates of citizenship'). 

But beyond that, again I must direct anyone who seriously believes Obama was born someplace other than Hawaii to examine the elaborate planning that would have had to take place *back when he was born*...Is there some evidence that can be produced demonstrating that at the time of his birth (in Kenya, allegedly), someone KNEW that someday he'd be running for the office of President of the US and would need to have been born in the US?

While some conspiracy theories have at least a basis for consideration, this birth certificate bullhonkery is completely lacking of any substance.

Hexe,

Give it up!  The birthers are firmly entrenched in their conspiracy theory, and NOTHING on this Earth is going to disabuse them.   They are like the Vatican with Galileo. Or,  proably more apt, they are like the pagans and their Winter Solstice observation--so wedded to it that the Church had to co-opt it and turn it into Christmas, regardless of the time of year that Christ was actually born. 

Irony is also apparently lost on them.