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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.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U
That locus was in the will of the people.
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This man is advocating mob rule.

If the “Will of the People” wishes to have non-natural born presidents then we the people follow rule of law and amend the Constitution.

If we allow mob rule we will reap tyranny.

48 posted on 12/09/2008 6:54:57 AM PST by wintertime
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To: TribalPrincess2U
And this sentence is the only one I care about. Nothing has really changed.

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.

That there are divided loyalties involved now are not a subject of speculation or wild guesses.

Obama has made it clear that he is a black first, and an American third.
A close second is his covert and overt embrace of islam.

It's not as if the USA has a dearth of truly qualified leaders who are American first; yes, even many black ones.

My president?
I don't think so.

149 posted on 12/09/2008 8:05:08 AM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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