NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

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Nick R. Martin at TPM:

The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November.

Bennett’s comments came in an interview late Thursday with conservative radio talk show host Mike Broomhead on Phoenix station KFYI.

Bennett said he was following the lead of the state’s eccentric Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a fellow Republican who ordered an investigation into the president’s birth certificate last year and concluded the document released by the White House is a forgery. Bennett said he is now trying to get verification from state officials in Hawaii that the certificate is authentic.

Still beating the dead horse.  And Sheriff Joe Arpaio is the perfect choice as a role model.

But wait!

Bennett, the state’s No. 2 elected official just below Gov. Jan Brewer (R), said his investigation isn’t personal. He said the reason he started looking into it is because he got more than 1,200 emails asking him to do so after Arpaio’s investigation came out.

Of course, Bennett is not himself a birther, but he gets emails.  If the birthers are not good for anything else, they are good at sending emails, and attention must be paid to their idiotic fantasies.

Bennett has not heard back from the officials in Hawaii, because they want proof that Bennett is who he says he is.  Take that!  The officials are "tired of all the requests", and no wonder.

Sooo it's possible Bennett will exclude Obama's name from the ballot or, barring that, he will ask all the candidates for certified copies of their birth certificates if he does not receive a satisfactory response from Hawaii.  But one has to ask, what will satisfy the birthers?  Nothing, because they know the whole phony birth certificate scheme is a vast conspiracy to foist on the citizens of the US a president who was not born in this country.

Oh, and Bennett is a Mormon, which, of course, has nothing at all to do with anything.