Posted on 07/16/2009 8:01:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The weirdly persistant belief held by many Americans that President Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States has been back in the news lately thanks to Major Stefan Cook, the "birther" soldier who was granted has requested conscientious objector status because he refused to fight for a president he believes is illegitimate. There's also a bill gathering some support in the House that would change election law to require candidates to prove their citizenship.
The birther phenomenon is predictable form of paranoia given the president's unusually exotic (for a president, anyway) background. But isn't the larger scandal that the anachronistic natural-born citizenship requirement in Article II of the constitution still even exists?
Let's imagine that Barack Obama had been born in Indonesia or Kenya or anywhere else for that matter, and hadn't become a citizen until moving to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Is there one good reason why that would make him less fit to be president?
Put another way, is there one good reason why foreign-born governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Granholm can't legally run for president but Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin can?
Naturalized citizens like Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Madeline Albright have been allowed into the highest positions in the U.S. national security establishment without anyone questioning their loyalty. Why shouldn't voters be allowed to decide whether a foreign-born candidate is American enough to be president?
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I saw this a few hours ago but decided not to post it for the reason you state.
I can think of Adolf Hitler... he wasn't even a German... and we know how that went...
To see why a non natural born citizen’s loyalties may not lie with America, see Barack Obama.
Hates America. Hates capitalism. Hates achievers. etc.
Say whatever you want about Palin or Sanford - but they love American and wish to avoid its destruction.
“Naturalized citizens like Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Madeline Albright have been allowed into the highest positions in the U.S. national security establishment without anyone questioning their loyalty.”
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I have questioned the loyalty of all three.
Trust me on this...if it were proven that Zero was NOT a natural born citizen, he would not go willingly and the congressional leadership would circle the wagons around him.
We can only hope that our military would display the same ‘nads as the Honduran Army, becuase that’s what it would take to get rid of him.
Joshua..., Joshua...! How long have you been a complete dick, Joshua...?!
Just for openers, if he skirted the Constitutional requirement, that makes him the ultimate scofflaw, and the biggest liar in the history of the USA.
Well, if he isn’t, it would invalidate anything he’s done since taking office. And, then the questions began about who knew about this while he was campaigning and buried it. Tar, feathers, rope.
I generally do, but never in the same sentence. Wouldn't want any confusion over it. :)
Any resemblance between reality and what a libtard (like this idiot) writes is purely accidental. Betcha this jerk doesn’t even know what conscientious objector status is, or what it entails! But it sounds good and fits his ill-begotten notion of truth.
obama exotic? Duh
Oh boy, here it comes. Now it’s not that it’s a ridiculous Internet rumor perpetuated by tin-foil-hat-wearing crazies ... NOW it’s that the Constitutional requirement is outdated.
Just when the national media starts paying a little bit of attention to this story, now all of a sudden, it doesn’t really matter where Obama was born?
Whatever! We see through this line of horsesh*t.
If you can't follow the law, you can't lead the law.
I never thought anyone could top the lies of the Clintons. Was I wrong.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone:
FOREIGN POLICY is published by the Slate Group,
a division of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, LLC.
It’s just the Obamabots at work trying to cover up for their con man.
Well, yes. It's prohibited by the Constitution.
I actually would have no serious problems with an amendment allowing naturalized citizens of 20+ years standing to be eligible for President. But this amendment should follow the standard route for such as prescribed by the Constitution itself.
“We can only hope that our military would display the same ‘nads as the Honduran Army, becuase that’s what it would take to get rid of him.”
it may just come down to that before this is over
If this fella thinks it is that important, his proper course is to advocate amending the constitution, instead of just ignoring it.
I, for one, think the Natural Born requirement makes a lot of sense, and that our current situation is a great example why.
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