Joe Arpaio spends county funds on Hawaii trip

[Theophylact]

Not for himself, of course, but to send a "threats unit" "investigator" to examine Obama's birth certificate.

Is there no end to this lunacy?

[Epidemic]

Sorry but he has every right to check up on this. But he should do so with either donations or his own funds. This does not fall under his job title AFAIAC.

[Chuckiechan]

What are you? MSNBC? Threats unit?

It's "Cold Case Posse"...

Hawaii Five-O: Sheriff Joe sends detectives to Honolulu

I'd say it's pretty serious considering it could lead to Obama not being on the ballot.

We'll just have to wait and see.

[nickslick74]

He's just wasting taxpayer money on something that has long since been debunked (except for the right wing nutjobs).

[tony_j15]

I'd say it's pretty serious considering it could lead to Obama not being on the ballot.

We'll just have to wait and see.

No, we don't have to wait and see. We already know its a dead issue being pushed by racists and idiots.
Do you fall into either of those camps? Is there a reason you are defending such ridiculous, behavior? Aren't you against wasteful government spending? It seems like a wasteful trip to me, seeing as how the certificate is available for download.
Maybe the boys at the Sheriff's Office just don't know how to use computers!

[Theophylact]

Besides: Joe Arpaio is a Maricopa County official. He has no business determining whether a candidate complies with Federal requirements for a position.

If you let every effing dogcatcher decide who's a legitimate candidate we'll have total chaos.

And as for state officials,

After days of ridicule for launching a conspiracy theory-fueled investigation into Barack Obama’s birth certificate, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett on Tuesday backed off his threat to keep the president off the ballot in November and apologized to his state.

“If I embarrassed the state, I apologize, but that certainly wasn’t my intent,” Bennett said in an interview with Phoenix radio station KTAR. “He’ll be on the ballot as long as he fills out the same paperwork and does the same things that everybody else has.”

Bennett said he still intends to keep asking Hawaii for verification that Obama’s birth certificate is authentic. But he said he only plans to use Hawaii’s answer as a way to satisfy demands from constituents who remain unconvinced Obama is a natural born citizen of the United States and so therefore eligible to be president.

He also said he talked to Hawaii’s attorney general on Monday night and clarified what he is looking to have verified. He said he “reworded” his request and expects to receive a response from Hawaii officials “in the next 24 to 48 hours.”

Last week, Bennett told a different Phoenix radio station it was “possible” he would keep Obama off the state’s ballot in November if Hawaii did not provide him with a satisfactory answers to his investigation.

On Tuesday, Bennett told talk show hosts Mac Watson and Larry Gaydos he had no idea about the wave of criticism he endure get after launching his investigation into the president’s birth certificate. He said again that he doesn’t consider himself a birther and he believes the president was born in Hawaii but he did this to satisfy a small number of vocal people who kept sending him angry emails about it.

“I feel like I was just trying to glue the far little corner of the carpet down,” Bennett said. “And as soon as you just touch the carpet, the whole floor buckles.”

Stop sniffing that glue, Ken.

[pickel]

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If you let every effing dogcatcher decide who's a legitimate candidate we'll have total chaos.

First, whoever IS deciding who is a "legitimate candidate" doesn't have any brains as a dog catcher ( Not demeaning a man's way if making his living)

Second, Theo, if you can't see that the soup of the day ( every day ) ISN'T Chaos, you need to put down your pipe and get some fresh air.

[Chuckiechan]

Is there a reason you are defending such ridiculous, behavior?

I'm defending his right to do it. You on the contrary feel Arpaio has no right to determine if the president qualifies to be on the Arizona ballot.

You opinion is not enough. Sorry.

Me? I really don't care, but I enjoy the show. The more piled on Obama, the more difficult his campaign. He is the leader of the "Gang who Couldn't Shoot Straight".. lol!

[Theophylact]

I enjoy the show. The more piled on Obama, the more difficult his campaign.

Right. You don't care about the truth or legitimacy of anything, as long as it can be used to hurt Obama. You're a prime example of the death of rational political thought in this country.

[Chuckiechan]

Right. You don't care about the truth or legitimacy of anything, as long as it can be used to hurt Obama. You're a prime example of the death of rational political thought in this country.

And your democrats are shining examples of what, again?

[Theophylact]

And your democrats are shining examples of what, again?

Tu quoque is your best? And it's not even true.

[Chuckiechan]

Hawaii sends Arizona verification of Obama's birth

Well, it looks like Obama will be on Arizona's ballot after all...

[tony_j15]

As if it were ever in doubt.

[zen]

Right. You don't care about the truth or legitimacy of anything, as long as it can be used to hurt Obama. You're a prime example of the death of rational political thought in this country.

"Oho!' said the pot to the kettle; "You are dirty and ugly and black! Sure no one would think you were metal, Except when you're given a crack."

"Not so! not so! kettle said to the pot; "'Tis your own dirty image you see; For I am so clean -without blemish or blot- That your blackness is mirrored in me"
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