The proscriptions of our Constitution are NOT mere "technicalities".
Yes, we need to fight Obama on political grounds, but our Constitution is being VIOLATED by this crypto-Marxist thug.
To continue to insist that Americans abandon their support and defense of our Constitution is completely indefensible, and nearly treason.
Give it up, folks.
No. Leave us if you must, but stop trying to make the rest of us stand down from this issue. It's our right and duty to insist that our Constitution be followed.
You follow whatever duty seems best for you.
You missed my point. The Constitution is not a technicality, but Obama fails to meet “natural born citizen” status, if he does fail, by a technicality of the statutory law of the 1950s that was in force when he was born.
The Constitution says you have to be a natural born citizen but what defines “natural born citizen” has varied from time to time and was defined by laws subsequent to the Constitution.
If Obama was born in Kenya, then the only reason he is not a natural born citizen is that his mother was 1 year short of the requisite number of years of residence over the age of 18. Since she was short not because she was an immigrant but because she was young, POLITICALLY SPEAKING, to disqualify him on that basis is a technicality.
I respect the Constitution as much as you do. I also understand politics. Obama’s shortcoming is 1 year based on 1950s law. The vast majority of Americans understandably would see that as a technicality. If you can’t begin to understand how the rest of the country thinks and feels, you can’t possible persuade them of anything you care deeply about.