Is Trump the one who keeps bringing this up? I think he closed the door on this, but the media keeps opening it.
“Trump needs to let go of the birther stuff
Is Trump the one who keeps bringing this up? I think he closed the door on this, but the media keeps opening it.”
The nuttiest part of this is that Obama HIMSELF penned his own biographical description on an autobiography in 2001. He stated that he was born in Kenya. Who passes out the cognitive dissonance pills to the media? Trump isn’t a fool. Unlike a lot of people, he doesn’t want to be treated like one. It is as clear as the nose on one’s face that there are huge discrepancies in all the versions of Obama’s birth. When I person writes that he was born in Kenya, one normally has no reason to doubt it. Either Obama lied then or he lied later in reversing his claim about where he was born. The media have been in the tank for Obama, and now for Hillary.
The media keeps bringing up the birther stuff because it’s a story line that helps the witch...
Is Trump the one who keeps bringing this up? I think he closed the door on this, but the media keeps opening it.Trump needs to let go of the birther stuff
The “natural born citizen” provision of the Constitution is a technicality. Would Obama have been a great president if he had been born in Illinois? Would Reagan have been a terrible president if he had been born in Canada? The framers of the Constitution were desperately hoping that Washington (and all took for granted that he would be the first POTUS) should be succeeded by others of similar character and wisdom. But they of course knew that he would not be POTUS forever, and they knew that no one else had Washington’s reputation at that time. The NBC provision was the best that they could do at the time, and they had other provisions which should have prevented Hillary from even running for POTUS - specifically,
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
This provision should be enforced by legislation/court action at the state level:
A year ago I wrote my (Republican) state rep. asking why anyone (implicitly, Hillary) should be allowed to have candidates for Elector on the ballot in the state with anything resembling the Clinton Foundation accepting gifts from multiple foreign governments while Secretary of State without once getting the consent of the House of Representatives. I got a reply, but not a serious answer. All it would have taken would have been for a few purple states - or even blue ones - to have passed laws enabling the courts to enforce that constitutional provision (by ruling on a lawsuit demanding that she be kept off the ballot) to have forced the Democrat Party to back away from crooked Hillary.
- Article II Section 1:
- Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress . . ..
Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren would have been the D nominee. Not that that would have been that much better for the country if he actually won . . .