Well, this isn't the favorite position to take on THIS site, for sure. But, it has well reasoned points to make that I don;t think we should forget about so fast.
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To: Mobile Vulgus
This paragraph is the only thing I care about...
The simple reason that the founders wanted the president to be a natural born citizen was because they were keen students of history. The phrase “let history be our guide” was not just a trope. The founders knew well the many instances when a foreign ruler had entered a country and, using that country’s own laws and customs, immorally proclaimed himself the ruler of a subjugated nation. The founders wanted to prevent that possibility and also wanted to make sure that there were no divided loyalties in an American president, that the welfare of the USA would be first and foremost in the mind of anyone elected to that office. What better way than to preclude the foreign born?
2 posted on
12/09/2008 6:36:31 AM PST by
TribalPrincess2U
(Dirty Dems at their best is always the worse.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
I support following the letter of the law, not the spirit...especially if it prevents AHnold Swartzenegger from ever becoming president.
3 posted on
12/09/2008 6:36:59 AM PST by
Sudetenland
(Those diplomats serve best, who serve as cannon fodder to protect our troops!)
To: Mobile Vulgus
Of course, Obamas foreign birth, if it comes to be true, will undermine his presidency. But better to have a single presidents legitimacy undermined due to his actions than to undermine the entire electoral process. It should be noted that Nixon understood this point well. In 1960 it was pretty clear that the Kennedys stole the election in Chicago and that LBJ stole it in Texas in order to put Kennedy into the White House. Nixon could easily and legitimately have contested that election. But Nixon did not dispute the 1960 election so as not to undermine the entire system. He felt the will of the people had been heard and for the good of the nation it should stand. So, while the Constitution is mighty important, the will of the people is supreme. And the will of the people has been clearly heard in this case. The vote was not close. Barack Obama won, fair and square in the minds of the electorate. Excellent point. Do we need race riots now? 0bama won. Let's move along. Let America face her consequences.
To: Mobile Vulgus
All that “Deer Leeder” has released is a FRAUDULENT COLB”.
Not one of us can: Get a Driver’s License, Get a passport, apply for a loan, and a multitude of other activities with such a document as OBammy has presented.
And we should look the other way, and just shut up while this clown becomes president?
This clown is not Royalty, and he’s not going to be King if he is sworn in, even if he thinks he is, so I for one, am not shutting up about this.
To: Mobile Vulgus
I’d have to saw off the top of may head to make that work in my mind.
6 posted on
12/09/2008 6:39:10 AM PST by
xmission
(www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
To: Mobile Vulgus
Believe me, I dont want this clearly socialist man as our president. I think he will do us some damage. I want his policies stifled as much as you do. So, let us oppose this man certainly. But let us do it manfully and in the spirit of our most cherished ideal. And let us plan for 2010 and 2012. Amen! This bc nonsense is a stupid waste of time. 0's election reflects the will of the people. A stupid, uneducated and functionally illiterate majority of us...but a majority none the less. We need to stand up to 0 and oppose him at every turn...and prepare for 2010 and 2012.
7 posted on
12/09/2008 6:40:00 AM PST by
pgkdan
To: Mobile Vulgus
Well, I say the “intent” behind “the pursuit of happiness” means I can have my rent paid while playing Xbox all day.
Which is exactly why we don’t use “intent” in law. We use specific wording.
8 posted on
12/09/2008 6:40:26 AM PST by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: Mobile Vulgus
So it’s the people that ultimately has the last say...not the Constitution that was written for the people??!!!
9 posted on
12/09/2008 6:40:35 AM PST by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: Mobile Vulgus
10 posted on
12/09/2008 6:40:44 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: Mobile Vulgus
Publius is an idiot. Indeed, the sovereign people ARE the ultimate authority, but the way their authority was to be undertaken was by means of the processes defined in the Constitution. The “natural born” citizenship requirement is part of the Constitution, and what the Founding Fathers would say is that if “the people” wanted the provision removed, the Constitution should be amended to remove it. And THAT takes the passage of such an amendment by majority vote of both houses of Congress, and approval of three-quarters of the state legislatures. Changing the Constitution by a simple majority vote of a nation-wide plebescite was NEVER intended.
To: Mobile Vulgus
Total, unadulterated hogwash!!
Balderdash!
Baloney!
Translation: Man, are you wrong!!!
To: Mobile Vulgus
>> have discovered that Thomas Jefferson has already told us upon which side we as conservatives should descend
Jefferson was a conservative?
14 posted on
12/09/2008 6:42:59 AM PST by
oblomov
To: Mobile Vulgus
Thomas Jefferson didn't know about untraceable prepaid credit cards electing a socialist nobody either....that what we all figured, that Political Correctness would rule over common sense,the constitution, and the SCOTUS.
15 posted on
12/09/2008 6:43:27 AM PST by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Mobile Vulgus
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved), or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.
I think by this he would mean that the people KNEW AND UNDERSTOOD that the elected official was not a NON natural born citizen.
Where is the part by Thomas Jefferson that he concedes it is ok if the 'people' are bamboozled?
16 posted on
12/09/2008 6:43:30 AM PST by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: Mobile Vulgus
” But Nixon did not dispute the 1960 election so as not to undermine the entire system. He felt the will of the people had been heard and for the good of the nation it should stand.”
Only conservatives could understand this statement. I note here that Nixon DID go on to become president eventually. May God grant us the ability to survive the next 4 years!
17 posted on
12/09/2008 6:43:43 AM PST by
GWMcClintock
(Right after Lib Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans. T. Sowell)
To: Mobile Vulgus
I heard yesterday that we should stop worrying about these technicalities because the people decided.
There's something deeply wrong about that whole concept. We used to be a nation of laws and morals. I guess not anymore to many out there. If Barrack would release his birth certificate then this would all be cleared up.
The deceit and withholding of records is very unseemly.
To: Mobile Vulgus
19 posted on
12/09/2008 6:44:37 AM PST by
Corin Stormhands
(It's okay to wish me "Merry Christmas.")
To: Mobile Vulgus
How dare that Warner Todd Huston call it a “fair election”?
What a moron you are, Warner Todd Huston!
To: Mobile Vulgus
However, the founders also contemplated the “slippery slope” of incrementalist modifications to the “common understanding” and original intent.
They could not contemplate a 30 year grooming process to install a non-native, liberal socialist trained, Manchurian candidate, any more than they could have imagined “gay marriage” much less ever consider it a “right.”
23 posted on
12/09/2008 6:44:54 AM PST by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: Mobile Vulgus
I got your Thomas Jefferson quote right HERE:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
24 posted on
12/09/2008 6:45:33 AM PST by
mkjessup
(God, guns & guts have kept America free, we still need all three. The 'Arsenal of Democracy' is 'US')
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