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Obama Citizenship - - Who Decides, and When?
American Sentinel ^ | November 28, 2008 | jay1949

Posted on 11/28/2008 12:57:36 PM PST by jay1949

The question of Barack Obama’s citizenship, and his eligibility to hold the office of President of the United States, has become the election-year issue that will not die. Quite a few Obama opponents are holding on to the eligibility issue as the last chance to keep him out of the White House. They have placed their faith in lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility, and particularly the Berg lawsuit; but it will turn out that such faith is misplaced.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berg; birthcertificate; certifigate; citizenship; constitution; obama; obamatransitionfile; obamatruthfile
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1 posted on 11/28/2008 12:57:36 PM PST by jay1949
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To: jay1949
Its not going to go anywhere. Obama may be a naturalized citizen but it wouldn't matter. A Democratic Congress is not going to overturn an election result to abide by the Constitution. And the U.S Supreme Court has no desire to risk another political firestorm by overturning an election on constitutional grounds.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 11/28/2008 1:03:43 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: jay1949

this is actually pretty well thought out


3 posted on 11/28/2008 1:04:45 PM PST by stylin19a ( Real Men don't declare unplayable lies)
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To: jay1949

This article is crap. This author thinks that conservatives are depending and hoping for a Clinton-esque parsing of the Constitution to keep Obama out of the White House.

He thinks that we are misguided and that the parsing of words like “eligible” is grabbing at straws.

Sorry. But for me, there should be no parsing necessary for a phrase like that or many others.

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN DECIDED LONG AGO BEFORE HE WAS ALLOWED TO EVEN DECLARE AS A CANDIDATE.

It is only a crisis NOW because it was not done so THEN. THIS is going to open up a can of worms for us as a country, because WE did not insist the Constitution be followed. That requirement was put there for a reason.


4 posted on 11/28/2008 1:05:41 PM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: stylin19a

Thanks. Sometimes I surprise myself.


5 posted on 11/28/2008 1:05:53 PM PST by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: jay1949

This is s waste of bandwidth article. This article ends by supporting his article by pointing to Obama’s birth certificate in HI - which no one has seen & may not exist. Maybe just a COLB about his borth in Kenya.

Also he uses birth announcements in HI papers that prove nothing. A child born in Kenya would get a COLB and a could have a birth announcement.

The fact that all of his records are sealed for his whole life, he provides a forged COLB and Sel Svc doc makes me think something is “rotten in Denmark.”


6 posted on 11/28/2008 1:07:15 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: rlmorel
Congress stopped living by the Constitution a long time ago. Where do you get the idea if will be faithful to it now? Obama's inauguration is a done deal and it doesn't matter if he's not a natural-born citizen. To even raise the issue is racist and to the courts the issue is non-justiciable.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

7 posted on 11/28/2008 1:08:29 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: jay1949

Interesting take. But just one man’s opinion. And he’s a Democrat.

Also, extremely naive or disingenuous on the subject of Obama’s COLB, which is a patent forgery. And the newspaper announcement means nothing. Newspapers generally print what the parents tell them and don’t fact-check every birth announcement.

Also, Stanley Ann Dunham got a COLB for Obama’s half-sister, even though she was admittedly born in Indonesia.


8 posted on 11/28/2008 1:09:08 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: goldstategop

Obama can’t be a naturalized citizen, because he has never gone through the naturalization process. He’s either a (natural born) citizen or he’s not a citizen at all.


9 posted on 11/28/2008 1:09:34 PM PST by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: goldstategop

You’re right. Obama can get away with this, no problem. Water off a ducks back. he got the job based on skin color. If he’s critized as President, he’ll use skin color as a defense.


10 posted on 11/28/2008 1:11:41 PM PST by Longtom
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bump


11 posted on 11/28/2008 1:12:07 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: jay1949

My take is that mistakes are made and the courts haven’t hesitated to correct them later, and it didn’t matter if half the population was pissed off. This should be no different. If a mistake was made, and someone missed it because Obama did not follow proper procedures, then screw him, screw the Democrat party, and screw the Obammunists. Let the law prevail.


12 posted on 11/28/2008 1:12:42 PM PST by Enterprise (No Presidency for illegal aliens from Kenya.)
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To: jay1949
In general, the Federal courts do not decide “political questions,” and the issue of eligibility to be President seems to be a political question.

Since the Constitution lays out qualifications for office how can the question of eligibility be a political question?

Since there are no qualifications for running for office, only taking the office, could it be that Obama is playing Constitutional Chicken?

It looks like he can't be disqualified until he is president-elect and he is hoping like hell that at that point no one will challenge him.

13 posted on 11/28/2008 1:12:55 PM PST by Eagle Eye (Libs- If you don't have to play the rules then neither do we...THINK ABOUT IT!)
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To: goldstategop

I agree it isn’t going to go anywhere.

At this late stage, is is silly to think otherwise.

But I DO think this requirement is IMPORTANT, and I think our country has DELIBERATELY shot itself in the foot on this.

Apart from having a racist, socialist, marxist running our country for the first time, this makes the requirement null and void.


14 posted on 11/28/2008 1:13:44 PM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: All

No birth certificate. No peace.

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Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution reads: “No Person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.”

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15 posted on 11/28/2008 1:14:24 PM PST by patriot08
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To: Frantzie

You’re missing the point. Regardless of how one views the merits of the issue (I linked the American Thinker article for the counterpoint view), no Federal court is going to issue an injunction to prevent Obama from either being elected or taking the oath of office.


16 posted on 11/28/2008 1:14:31 PM PST by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: goldstategop
“And the U.S Supreme Court has no desire to risk another political firestorm by overturning an election on constitutional grounds.”

I belive that on December 5th many Americans will be surprised when they hear that more than 4 Supreme Court Justices voted to fully hear the Leo Donofrio case.

I also believe that then and only then will the MSM mention anything about the cases before the USSC or before any other court across the country.

Without our Constitution being upheld, this country as we know it will be gone forever. The nine Honorable Supreme Court Justices know that and will uphold the Constitution.

17 posted on 11/28/2008 1:14:57 PM PST by seekthetruth
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To: goldstategop
"U.S Supreme Court has no desire to risk another political firestorm by overturning an election"

When has the US Supreme Court overturned an election?


18 posted on 11/28/2008 1:14:59 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: goldstategop

So, you are saying we just completely give up, throw it in the trash and be governed at the will of whichever tyrant is running the government according to whatever rules they see fit?

Look, I have read a lot of your posts and know you to be reasonable, but please don’t give me a glib answer on this one. I am serious.


19 posted on 11/28/2008 1:16:21 PM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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To: goldstategop

What election are you referring to?


20 posted on 11/28/2008 1:17:11 PM PST by mtnwmn (mtnwmn)
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