Kansas' birther boys: Kobach, Colyer, Schmidt
Yael T. Abouhalkah(UPDATE: Here’s latest; Monday hearing still on.)
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he’s not a birther - you know, someone unintelligent enough to think President Barack Obama isn’t a U.S. citizen and thus can’t be on the state ballot this fall.
But if it walks like a birther and talks like a birther….
Kobach and the two other Republican members of the heretofore unknown State Objections Board - Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and Attorney General Derek Schmidt - embarrassed the state on a national level Thursday.
They said at a board meeting they want “more information” on whether Obama should be on the ballot.
You can read the laughable objections to Obama’s being on the ballot from a Kansas resident here. Safe to say, he raises all the tired old objections that the frenzied birther crowd has been spewing for years.
All have been discredited among rational, thinking people.
But the lunatic fringe that believes records have been doctored, etc., will never believe anything about Obama that’s good.
Which brings us to how Kobach and crowd look foolish in this mess.
They want more records about Obama - something that could have been easily requested before Thursday’s hearing.
That is, if the birther boys in Kansas really wanted to avoid the state being a national laughingstock.
Instead, you have Kobach preening that he just wants to look at more facts.
These facts, naturally, have been available for years, as long as the birther controversy has been around.
So now Kobach, Colyer and Schmidt plan to meet again Monday, to ponder whether they have the “evidence” to take the name of the sitting president of the United States off the Kansas ballot.
This issue would be extremely laughable except for the fact that Kansas’ birther boys seem to be taking this so seriously.
Which means they actually might try to strip Obama from the ballot, thus opening up legal challenges and more skits on the late-night comedy shows aimed at - as my colleague Barb Shelly has written - what’s the matter with Kansas, now?
Mark Hastert
8 months, 1 week agoCome to think of it, has Kris Kobach ever produced his birth certificate and had it scrutinized for authenticity?….or the others fro than matter. They may not be entitled to hold office in Kansas.
George Hunsucker
Northland
8 months, 1 week agoAnother hilarious posting by our very own YT.,,,
He, and the other libs, cannot talk about jimmy II’s “outstanding accomplishments”, so they revert to talking about birthing nonsense.
So much buyers’ remorse, so little accomplished. the big zero, what a “leader” you libs have.
Kent Mueller
8 months, 1 week agoMark, I can’t speak for the Kansas politicians, but I suspect they would be willing to produce their birth certificates far sooner then Harry Reid would produce his tax returns.
Joe Jones
8 months, 1 week agoSo somehow calling someone names—”Birther” “lunatics” etc is supposed to discredit them? Are you aware your inability to deal with others discredits YOU?
Go to the White House site and read the name of the Hospital named on the Birth Certificate—it names “Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital” as the birthplace.
According to the website of the HOSPITAL NAMED ON THE CERTIFICATE–there was NEVER A HOSPITAL BY THAT NAME; from the website http://www.kapiolani.org/women…
Direct cut and paste from the site: “This is the story of two hospitals: Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital and Kapi‘olani Maternity Home.”
Concerned about the welfare of Hawai‘i’s mothers, Queen Kapi‘olani held luau and bazaars to raise the $8,000 needed to open Kapi‘olani Maternity Home in 1890. She endowed her legacy with “Kulia i ka nu‘u” or “Strive for the highest.”
“In 1908, Albert and Emma Kauikeolani Wilcox donated $50,000 to start a children’s hospital. The community, concerned that two of every seven infants in Hawai‘i did not live to see their first birthday, rallied to match the Wilcox’s gift. A year later, Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened.”
“The two hospitals joined in 1978 to become Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women & Children. Staying true to its mission, the non-profit hospital has played a vital role in the health of Hawai‘i’s women, children and adolescents. It is staffed with highly skilled, compassionate physicians and nurses, dedicated to providing the finest care for Hawai‘i’s families”
Who is the lunatic now?
Tyler Allen
Lenexa
8 months, 1 week agoThe resident who started this argues that because Obama’s father is foreign born, then Obama isn’t a US citizen. If this were the case, then Romney isn’t a US citizen either. Romney’s father was born in Mexico. So by this residents logic, Romney shouldn’t be on the ballot either.
If you truly believe that Obama isn’t a citizen, then you need mental help. How many times does he have to prove it? I’m not endorsing Obama, but birthers make the Republican party look like wackos!
To Joe Jones -
The former Kapiolani Maternity Home became Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in 1931, and retained that name until 1971, when its name was shortened to Kapiolani Medical Center. The Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital was a separate entity which merged with Kapiolani Hospital in 1978 to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children.
Please get your facts straight, you not only make yourself look stupid, you make the entire party look crazy.
Sam Woods
8 months, 1 week ago“Who’s the lunatic now?” Um…still you Joe. You might want to mop up a bit of that froth, too.
Phil Cardarella
8 months, 1 week agoDid Kansas run out of creationists who think cavemen rode on dinosaurs and The Flintstones was a documentary? Is it up to birthers now to keep the Red State red with embarrassment.
No Alum should give a dime to UMKC until it publicly apologizes for the discredit it gave our degrees when it gave that demagogue Kobach legitimacy by hiring him as a professor.
Gloria Little
8 months, 1 week agoThis whole ordeal makes Kansas look ignorant. My Kansas born husband hasn’t endured such ribbing since the Kansas Attorney General made airlines quit serving alcohol when planes were flying over Kansas back in the 70’s.
Mark Hastert
8 months, 1 week ago“This whole ordeal makes Kansas look ignorant.”
Well…. if if walks like a duck and looks like a duck and quacks like a duck……
Stephen Platt
8 months, 1 week agoYael calls them laughable objections, I think it the Star’s editorial staff reaction that is just as laughable. I won’t repeat my comment to Barb Shelly’s piece, go read it if it interests you, it basically says have a good laugh and take a chill pill. It’s a poke and oh boy did it hit a spot.
Johnathon Busby
8 months, 1 week agoThe three stooges of Kansas dropped their objection to Obama’s citizenship. …largely because of how it exposes the backwards nature of Kansas on a national level.
Well, that changes everything! Now Obama gets Kansas in November (ha ha ha, what’s he poll in KS, maybe 30%?)