The Obama Camp Tried to Delegitimize Natural Born Requirements Prior To Elections

timothybirdnow.com ^ | December 4, 2008 | Timothy Birdnow

[smokingfrog]

Obama’s “Cafeteria Constitutionalists” started years ago to try to to delegitimize the “American born President” provision of the Constitution. As the conclusion of this article states, “Can you say President Soros?”

Obama And The Three D’s: Deny, Delay Destroy

Barack Obama has successfully merged Chicago with Clinton-era politics. With that, we now have the Three D’s rearing their ugly heads again. For those of you who were in elementary school when Bill Clinton was president, the three D’s stood for `deny, delay, destroy`.

In this case, with regards to the whole Barack Obama birth certificate stall, the `destroy` part is in regards to the U.S. Constitution, and it takes time (deny and delay) to do this.

With that, meet Sarah P. Herlihy.

The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the “stupidest provision“ in the Constitution, “undecidedly un-American,“ “blatantly discriminatory,“ and the “Constitution’s worst provision.“ Since Arnold Schwarzenegger’s victory in the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003, commentators and policy-makers have once again started to discuss whether Article II of the United States Constitution should be amended to render naturalized citizens eligible for the presidency. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution defines the eligibility requirements for an individual to become president. Article II provides:

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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AMENDING THE NATURAL BORN CITIZEN REQUIREMENT: GLOBALIZATION AS THE IMPETUS AND THE OBSTACLE

According to Ms. Herlihy:
Ultimately, the emotional reasons to oppose a constitutional amend-ment abolishing the natural born citizen requirement for presidential eligi-bility will prevail over the rational reasons because the rational reasons derive, in large part, from the increase in globalization. The current Ameri-can perceptions about the effects of globalization and the misunderstand-ings about what globalization actually is will result in Americans deciding that naturalized citizens should not be president because this would, in effect, be promoting globalization. Although this argument is admittedly circular, because globalization is the thing that makes the need to abolish the requirement more and more persuasive, Americans’ subsequent percep-tions about globalization are the very things that will prevent Americans from embracing the idea of eliminating the natural born requirement. Logi-cal Americans are looking for a reason to ignore the rational reasons pro-moted by globalization so that they may vote based on their own emotions and instincts. Whether it is because of fear, racism, religious intolerance, or blind faith in the decisions of the Founding Fathers, Americans want to find a way to avoid changing the natural born citizen provision to allow natural-ized citizens to be eligible for the presidency. Ultimately, Americans will rely on the perceived negative effects of globalization, or rather their per-ceptions of globalization’s negative effects, to justify their decision to al-low emotion to prevail over reason.

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[freedumb2003]

Every FReeper should Bk this one!

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[seastay]

These people are just plain evil, there is no other word for it. Where ever there is evil there are lies, such that what is being peddled here is the opposite function of what the US government and it’s leaders are chartered to do for its people. The one and only purpose for the government is to protect its people, and NOT to let its people be assimilated!

By setting a precedent that immigrants can rule office, and subsequent through the following amnesty plans, which will allows immigrants to vote for their agents in US offices, we are screwed as US citizens! The left is not just unpatriotic by pursing this globalization, but evil, by forcing US citizens to give up it infrastructure that was hard earned to others on the planet whom had nothing to do with the prosperity.

[arrogantsob]

Another instance of foreknowledge that this was a problem for Zero was the Senate Resolution intended to bless McCain by declaring him natural born and eligibile. It would have as much meaning legally as declaring day night. A RAT stooge had started this by filing suit claiming him to be ineligible like the idiot Donofrio. McCain simply went to court with his BC showing him born to American citizens. Those running the stooge knew this but it gave the the RATS the chance for the Senate manuver. But its real intent was in a provision McKaskell, Schumer and others tried to sneak in declaring naturalized citizens eligible.

Now why in the world would anything like that have been attempted?

[arrogantsob]

The American people love lies and lap them up like mothers’ milk begging for more.

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Yeah, one thing for sure....Obama may or may not be a natural born citizen, but he's certainly a natural born liar....

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[Kevmo]

But its real intent was in a provision McKaskell, Schumer and others tried to sneak in declaring naturalized citizens eligible.
***Wasn’t Obama one of those others, or at least connected to the effort?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade here, but this Sarah P. Herlihy connection is really weak. Kirkland & Ellis is a huge law firm (over 700 lawyers overall, with more than 600 in the Chicago office alone). Ms. Herlihy was in law school when she wrote the article, and was a law clerk for a Federal judge when the piece was finalized and published (so, at the very most, the only contact Ms. Herlihy might have had with the firm prior to the article being written/published would have been as a summer associate in 2004). Further, Ms. Herlihy works in the litigation group, while both of the firm's partners work in the firm's corporate group. Quite frankly, in a firm the size of K&E, the likelihood that a summer associate (or first-year associate) in the litigation group had any sort of working relationship with a senior partner in the corporate group is slim to none.

[BIGLOOK]

Will Obama swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States in good faith?

Or will his oath of office be a reflection of his bad faith.

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110TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION

 

S. RES. __

 

Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.

 

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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 

Mrs. MCCASKILL (for herself and Mr. LEAHY, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. COBURN, Mrs. CLINTON, and Mr. WEBB) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on

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RESOLUTION

Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.

 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 

Mrs. MCCASKILL (for herself and Mr. LEAHY, Mr. OBAMA, Mr. COBURN, Mrs. CLINTON, and Mr. WEBB) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on

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RESOLUTION

Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.

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[TheCipher]

Not only that, Obama did a sneaky thing. He was a cosponsor of the resolution. He had this line inserted which was totally out of place within the context of the resolution since it was talking about John McCains specific circumstances

Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President;"

This line wasn't needed if you read the rest of the resolution

Of course the resolution has no force of law but most of his blind followers wouldn't know the difference.

[Just mythoughts]

Whereas the term `natural born Citizen', as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States;

Who put these words in a non-binding resolution?

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