This is not brain surgery. It should be an FBI person, maybe a CIA person. If you want to run for president, you’ve got to go with the proper documentation and get it certified that you meet the qualifications to be the President of the United States.
— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra (R), telling the Detroit Free Press he’d like to “create a federal office in Washington that would verify that presidential candidates meet the minimum requirements to hold the office.”
Editor’s note: We suggest a name for the office — the BBI, or the Birther Bureau of Investigation. We have some creative ideas for the badge design, too, that involve the “not brain surgery” meme.
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