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Obama and the Natural Born Citizen Clause
AmericanThinker.com ^ | December 09, 2008 | Randall Hoven

Posted on 12/09/2008 2:33:58 AM PST by Man50D

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Where's the birth certificate Barack?
1 posted on 12/09/2008 2:33:58 AM PST by Man50D
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To: Man50D

Yes...only Obama can really settle the issue by being forthright and honest.


2 posted on 12/09/2008 2:47:25 AM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: Man50D

Thanks for posting. Here’s another thread of interest to those of us following the Wrotnowski/Donofrio case “natural-born status” case:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2145327/posts


3 posted on 12/09/2008 2:56:57 AM PST by sneakers
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To: Man50D

He should.


4 posted on 12/09/2008 3:04:04 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Man50D
Legislators could come up with some kind of retro-active legislation.

Thereby ignoring the "ex post facto law" provision of the Constitution. But, hey, it's a living document, you know?

5 posted on 12/09/2008 4:07:22 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Why do I find the Toyota "Saved by Zero" ads so ironic?)
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To: Shery

Question-

Is it possible that someone other than Barack Obama Sr. was listed on the original Birth Certificate in order that both parents would appear to be U.S. citizens to allow citizenship to a baby born outside the U.S.?

If this is the case and DNA could prove that there was no biological link to the “father” listed on the birth certificate, this would explain why he will not release it.

I am still in total disbelief of what we as a nation have allowed to happen.

de Texas Fossil


6 posted on 12/09/2008 4:38:02 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Man50D

Our government is BROKEN....NO ONE HAS ANY COURAGE these days.


7 posted on 12/09/2008 4:39:13 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: Man50D

BTTT


8 posted on 12/09/2008 4:42:45 AM PST by Amityschild (I can only imagine...)
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To: Man50D
Although Michelle Malkin waxed a little snarky on this, "Did a fortune-teller place it in the paper knowing he would run for president?", it is fairly common to run such announcements for babies born outside the area of the announcement or even the US. Proud grandparents, for example, could have run the announcement just to let people know they are now grandparents.

Except that if you look at the page of birth announcements printed in both papers, all the babies were born on or about the same date, all the birth announcements are worded identically, and none of them contain the name of the child. If these had been submitted by parents or grandparents one would expect that there would be some difference in the wording, and surely at least one would contain the name of the baby. The source of all the announcements is obviously some government office and not the family. And if Obama wasn't born locally then where did they get the information to print?

9 posted on 12/09/2008 4:43:22 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Amityschild

It is illuminating to see the utter lack of knowledge among our ranks. And beyond that, they appear to lack the will to inquire.


10 posted on 12/09/2008 4:47:08 AM PST by Amityschild (I can only imagine...)
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To: Ann Archy
The FedGov is no longer Constitutional, and therefore no longer legitimate. All they have left over us is raw power. Picture a boot on the throat of America. Forever.
11 posted on 12/09/2008 4:51:22 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Man50D
Great summary. I agree with the author completely. Let's make this thing legal so we can move on. I should think Obama would want to anyway so he can run easily for a second term.

If this were Bobby Jindal instead of Obama, I have a feeling the issue would have been resolved by now.

12 posted on 12/09/2008 4:54:42 AM PST by littlehouse36 (The real battle is with powers and principalities. Pray unceasingly.)
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” the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.”

I would like to see a copy of one of these types of BCs. I’d like to see how the Place/country of birth is listed. Would it be listed as “Hawaii” or some other country.


13 posted on 12/09/2008 4:55:01 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Man50D

The best analysis I’ve read on the subject to date.


14 posted on 12/09/2008 4:55:01 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: Hardastarboard
Thereby ignoring the “ex post facto law” provision of the Constitution. But, hey, it's a living document, you know?

Ex Post Facto only applies to criminal law. Citizenship law is not criminal law.
15 posted on 12/09/2008 5:45:51 AM PST by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground: where PCP is not just for breakfast anymore.)
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To: Texas Fossil
I am still in total disbelief of what we as a nation have allowed to happen.

Me too. When I see the smug Obamabots with their Obama '08 bumper stickers driving around, I stare at them as if I were at the zoo looking at a new species. I just do not get what makes them tick. One that I saw yesterday had cut off the words of the sticker, so that only the BHO communist rising sun was still stuck to their car.

16 posted on 12/09/2008 5:46:33 AM PST by Elvina (BHO is double plus ungood.)
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To: Man50D
Again, the Constitution is clear on this in the 20th Amendment. "If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified ..."

No "If's" about it. Without a valid Hawiian birth certificate that would stand up in court, Obama has failed to qualify.

This Amendment anticipated just such a situation, that regardless of whether 64 million want it or don't want it to be so, "qualification" for the office still has to be met, even after the election, and if not, he does not take office. So those who think that this is a done deal need to read their Constitution and this 20 Amendment and wake up.

17 posted on 12/09/2008 5:58:40 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Man50D

Clearly, the constitution is no longer worth the parchment it’s written on. Perhaps we should simply abandon the rule of law and embrace Liberal anarchy; it’s what a good many citizens want - even a good many of our so-called intellectuals.


18 posted on 12/09/2008 6:05:07 AM PST by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: Man50D
Proud grandparents, for example, could have run the announcement just to let people know they are now grandparents.

Not going to weigh in on anything else here, but I saw the "proud grandparents" argument used before.

But let's get real. This was 1961. The Dunhams may possibly have been more tolerant than your "typical white" couple at the time, but do you really think they were all that eager to advertise the fact that their barely-out-of-her-teens daughter just gave birth to a mixed-race baby from an African father?
19 posted on 12/09/2008 6:15:19 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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“How viable will our Constitution be if five Supreme Court justices should decide to void 64 million ballots?”

They could order new elections and not one voter would be disenfranchised


20 posted on 12/09/2008 6:43:43 AM PST by chainsaw
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