Pan_Yans Wife, speaking for Danae, since I have never found fault with her reasoning, and she didn't respond directly, why should the Democratic Party care? The Republicans refused to vet Obama and ran their own ineligible candidate. They are just as complicit. Many prominent republicans are now lauding Marco Rubio as an ideal vice presidential candidate. Only Georgia's Congressman Nathan Deal had the courage to question Obama; the response with ethics charges was almost immediate. Deal retired and ran for Governor, and no one has said anything of consequence since.
Our legislature is quiet because they all know the truth, and hope that their numbers will lessen the outrage should the public gain the confidence to read Minor, or The Venus, or Perkins, or ... for themselves, and demand answers. Likely, they will all say something like “We felt there would be race wars if we raised the issue and forced his removal.” “Silence was the lessor of the evils.” And many would agree. But this writer believes that black people in the US are not incapable of seeing the consequences, indeed the fundamental racism, in assuming people of color do not understand the importance of a colorblind republic based upon laws, and not men.
You and I might ask, why not just bury this, as both parties are currently doing? Too many of us have taken the ten minutes or so to read Chief Justice Waite's definition, or 14th Amendment author Bingham’s definition, or Chief Justice Marshall's definition. Without exception, every one of our Representatives have failed to tell us why Waite, or Evans Hughes, or Marshall, or (thirty or so times)..., didn't really understand what they were saying. As in ignoring a legal challenge, failing to respond is a statement. They depend upon Alinsky’s observation about ridicule, assuming that few citizens will have the clarity and confidence in their powers of reason to challenge written decisions. I hope, perhaps vainly, that should the Republicans offer us another ineligible candidate, there will be an honest confrontation, since too many of us would refuse to tacitly establish the precedent contracting our framer's common-law and our Supreme Court's stare decisis - precedent - confirming the common-law, Minor v. Happersett.
For any who have any illusion that “originalist” Ron Paul is any better, he refuses to comment on the definition so absolutely clearly enunciated in Minor, and cited in over two dozen subsequent cases which confirm the court's recognition of Minor's precedent on NBC. That makes Paul even more a hypocrite than Barack, since Barack has always honestly admitted that he doesn't consider the Constitution binding. Barack honestly described himself as a naturalized citizen when he said “I am a native-born citizen of the U.S.” Words mean things. “Native-born” is the term used in Wong Kim Ark to descibe citizens naturalized by having been born on our soil. Barack never said, anywhere, that he was a natural born citizen.
Obama may have no interest in running again. Why should he? He has spent his career as a con-man, probably deployed by Axelrod, Soros, and perhaps, as claimed by Percy Sutton, for Whalid bin-Talaal, benefactor of Harvard's Islamic Studies Center and largest individual stockholder, after Murdoch, in News Corp, which owns the WSJ and Fox News. Someone, clearly not The Golfer, writes the scripts for the teleprompter. Why should he continue. From never having held a real job, unless the 31 Flavors stories are true, his income is over $10 million, and that on a salary of around $300k. If he decides to leave the future to Hillary, he can make even more than Bill with occasional speeches, and play golf, or whatever he likes, providing he stays out of jail. Does anyone believe the golfer wants to be a trainer for Acorn again? Barack is a product of the most elite prep school in Hawaii. He was groomed to capitalize on the racial quota politics of the 80s, and proved to be an effective pitch man who could probably pitch as effectively for the right, or for Gucci or Barney's if they would pay him.
Barack, or whatever his name is, can move to the vacation spot so popular with the Saudi families on the coast of Spain scouted by Michelle and her entourage, and live in a beautiful home for the rest of his life. Our courts won't go after him because they failed to protect our Constitution and they all know it. He has done his job well, making billions, perhaps trillions, keeping Goldman Sachs from Lehman Bros. fate, giving GM to the AFL/CIO and stealing from the non-union retirement funds of blue chip investors. Barack is a money machine. Like the dealers in Las Vegas, who learn that tragedy is part of the job, he has done his job, and neither has he any mission to complete, not having the allegiance described by John Bingham, as passed to him from his parents, nor guilt for what he has wrought upon the people who paid Rev Wright enough to live like an investment banker in Barack’s, Louis’, Bill Ayers’, fancy Chicago neighborhood.
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I want to hear a sincere Ron Paul fan, after having read just this thread articulate why a man ostensibly so devoted to the Constitution won't address the question of "Obama"'s eligibility vis a vis the NBC definition found in Minor vs Happersett.
I’m not asking “Why not bury this?”
My comment was about what would happen if this can’t be buried.
I remember when Maxine Waters said, “Unleash us, Mr. President.” She was saying, let the Black Caucus and the black constituents roar and demand that we are given what we deserve. She wants to use black anger and belief of injustice as a weapon.
I live in Georgia. I know what could happen in Atlanta if that happens.
It isn’t that I believe that black people cannot think. I simply believe this would be the mother of all opportunities to make this a race issue. I believe there are too many people that use our history of slavery, our clumsy way that we have addressed that, and national guilt against the entire nation. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Tavis Smiley and others in the wings would use this as a flash point to tear into the soul of what it means to be an American.
I think that’s why the Republicans and the GOP have sat quiet for all this time. I think that’s why the powers that be, the Republican Representatives and Senators feel they have their hands tied. They are part of the corrupt system. If they raise their voices about how Obama has circumvented justice, the light might be turned on them. They might be found guilty of stomping our Constitution into the dirt as well.
My concern is not the Republicans, Congress or the Senate. My concern is what the people will be facing if this powder keg erupts.
If that happens, I see blood in the streets. Just like the Weather Underground wanted in their plans to revolutionize America.