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Eric Cantor: Obama is a citizen
Salon ^ | 1/23/11 | staff

Posted on 01/23/2011 11:13:48 AM PST by pissant

The new Republican House majority leader says he doesn't think questions about President Barack Obama's citizenship should play a role in the discussion of policy matters.

Two years into the Obama administration, so-called birthers continue to argue that Obama isn't a natural-born citizen and that he hasn't proved he's constitutionally qualified to be president. Birth records in Hawaii haven't dissuaded them.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he believes Obama is a citizen and that most Americans are beyond that question.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; birthcertificate; cantor; certifigate; congress; duplicate; ericcantor; hawai; hawaii; kenyanbornmuzzie; larrysinclairslover; lyingliar; naturalborncitizen; obama; palin; tinfoilhat
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To: jamese777; Herbster
no ruling has found that he isn’t a natural born citizen.

Miss jamese, as usual you spew lies around like your dear Fuehrer is spreading around the "wealsth"(?). There has NEVER been any ruling whatsoever about natural born citizen. You are nothing but a simple QUISLING in FINO's clothing aka TROLL like TNTNT!!!

141 posted on 01/23/2011 10:15:49 PM PST by danamco (-)
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To: mojitojoe; melancholy

Theresa Cao took them all to the wood-shed, so there is NO excuse, except for the lack of spine and especially cojones. They are scared to death because the are enablers!!!

But then you have the sorry ass of a parrot, miss jamese???


142 posted on 01/23/2011 10:22:21 PM PST by danamco (-)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie; Frantzie

Maybe you should delete the “EX” from your tag-name!!!


143 posted on 01/23/2011 10:24:49 PM PST by danamco (-)
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To: Fantasywriter

Actually up in northern Sweden, when the harvest of new potatoes in summertime, surstromming is considered a “delicatessen” by some, but it has to consumed by help of lots of Snaps and Beers. I served on a ship where the Swedes tried to persuaded me a try. As very young and inexperienced I had to throw up immediately and even some coming out of my nose, yakking. Go figure!!!


144 posted on 01/23/2011 10:39:29 PM PST by danamco (-)
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To: danamco

Wealth!!!


145 posted on 01/23/2011 10:41:55 PM PST by danamco (-)
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To: pissant

I am a USA citizen born in USA. My older brother was a USA citizen born in the USA. Both of us served in the US Army WWII. My brother lies in the Punch Bowl, killed on Okinawa. Our parents were not USA citizens. Neither of us was eligible for POTUSA, even though I thought so in grade school. We both loved the USA through the depression days. Yes I am very protective of the distinction between ‘citizen’ and ‘natural born citizen’.


146 posted on 01/23/2011 10:57:47 PM PST by noinfringers2
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To: pissant

I am a USA citizen born in USA. My older brother was a USA citizen born in the USA. Both of us served in the US Army WWII. My brother lies in the Punch Bowl, killed on Okinawa. Our parents were not USA citizens. Neither of us was eligible for POTUSA, even though I thought so in grade school. We both loved the USA through the depression days. Yes I am very protective of the distinction between ‘citizen’ and ‘natural born citizen’.


147 posted on 01/23/2011 10:57:59 PM PST by noinfringers2
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To: bitt

You may be right for all I know.

We can certainly see what comes from being exposed to other cultures as an impressionable kid at the very least.


148 posted on 01/23/2011 11:10:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (All hail the Kenyan Prince Obama, Lord of the Skid-mark, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

You can’t even spell; Israel. Don’t try to spell antisemite


149 posted on 01/24/2011 4:45:12 AM PST by STD (** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We bring a confiscated Gun”)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

it was hidden in there somewhere, sorry. I didn’t write it. I’m not anti-Israel. I’m just pro-America


150 posted on 01/24/2011 4:48:22 AM PST by STD (** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We bring a confiscated Gun”)
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To: butterdezillion

I agree that the reporters know there is something going on but I don’t buy that they’re afraid of violence!

They are afraid of the facts coming out that will show how badly they abdicated their journalistic responsibilities both in the way they shilled for Obama and in the way they have continued to ignore this issue.

Personally, I’d love to see Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, David Gregory, et all have to go the way of Dan Rather....forever tainted and disgraced!


151 posted on 01/24/2011 5:40:42 AM PST by VikingMom (I may not know what the future holds but I know who holds the future!)
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To: blackdog

They certainly don’t want their fundraisinging and politicking to take a backseat to working, do they.


152 posted on 01/24/2011 5:43:36 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: jamese777
Speaker Boehner says: “The state of Hawaii says that the President was born there, that’s good enough for me.”

It is not good enough for any thinking person.

153 posted on 01/24/2011 6:16:03 AM PST by itsahoot (Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about politics.)
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To: butterdezillion
That doesn’t mean that another state can’t require more proof than just that record.

You're right, the Constitution doesn't say anything about birth certificates and so a state could presumably come up with some different kind of test. Maybe a state could require that a candidate produce a live witness who can testify that he/she was present at the birth and observed the child often enough thereafter that he/she is certain that the candidate is the same person he/she saw being born. But, who can pass that test?

I don't think the Full Faith & Credit clause requires the use of birth certificates, but if they are used, I believe that a state will have to accept the certificate recognized by the issuing state as a public record.

Wouldn't it be easier for the House of Representatives to just subpoena the Hawaiian records?

154 posted on 01/24/2011 6:48:12 AM PST by Walts Ice Pick ("I'm not going to shut up!" - Sarah Palin)
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To: pissant
Or translated:
“He is a citizen”. “But I can neither confirm nor deny if he meets the legal requirements for the office of President.”
155 posted on 01/24/2011 6:51:49 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Vote like Obama is on the ballot)
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To: butterdezillion

Brilliant post butterzillion.

I was just searching for who checks the eligibility qualifications of U.S. Senators. I should have known it was the U.S Senate itself.

According to some sources, the process was not rigorously enforced in the early days and many ineligible ‘Senators’ slipped through.

Do you or anyone else know how this vetting process is done in the Senate today? What Committee, etc. -— are they required to keep records?

If they are required to keep records, I’d be curious as to what Obongo used as identification for his age and citizenship. You’d think after 9/11, a Marxist noob from corrupt Chicago with a name like Barack Hussein Obama would have recieved a little extra scrutiny from a ‘Republican’ held Senate. [Probably not]

FOIA.....pipe dream?


156 posted on 01/24/2011 7:13:00 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (I'm armed and Amish.)
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To: blackdog
"...Ruh Roh....... Legs are growing more and more...."


157 posted on 01/24/2011 7:19:49 AM PST by NCC-1701 (HEY, NAZI PELOUSY, ON NOVEMBER 2, WE DRAINED THE SWAMP!)
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To: pissant

Where’the BEEF!


158 posted on 01/24/2011 7:23:08 AM PST by jetson
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To: jamese777

IF the truth ever comes out about THE 1 and it’s proven that he’s not a NBC, then we can add Boehner’s and Cantor’s names to those who were willing participants in the most massive fraud ever in US history. Pelosi and Reid are already on that list as well as the members of the SCOTUS that refuse to even look at the issue. Every one of them may be dead by the time the truth comes out but they will be stained by the fact that all aided and abetted the worst person ever to hold the office of POTUS.


159 posted on 01/24/2011 7:26:27 AM PST by NCC-1701 (HEY, NAZI PELOUSY, ON NOVEMBER 2, WE DRAINED THE SWAMP!)
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To: danamco

“I served on a ship where the Swedes tried to persuaded me a try. As very young and inexperienced I had to throw up immediately and even some coming out of my nose, yakking. Go figure!!!”

I figure that’s exactly what they wanted, and that they laughed for days. ;)


160 posted on 01/24/2011 7:47:53 AM PST by Fantasywriter
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