Posted on 12/22/2008 10:14:22 AM PST by Kevmo
Obama Watch, Issue #11 - Citizenship and Other Important Questions
Posted on December 16, 2008 by Keith Lehman
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Alexander Hamilton, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers, wrote:
In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.
Unfortunately, today, there are too many who ignore or suppress what is the “primary truth” like when discussing the “global warming” issue - which the media and its cohorts have recently began to change the wording to “climate change” - a theory that has turned into an assumption based on false data from a computer program’s software errors. And the newly elected President of the United States is firmly set to waste taxpayer funding on the consensus of climate change. Maybe they changed it because they are not sure if the natural process of climate change will be for a warmer climate or a colder one.
I contemplate this the night before as winds reached gusts to 45 miles per hour, now settled down to a 10-15 mile an hour wind that has caused the basic temperature of 4-degrees tonight to be well below the freezing point in terms of Fahrenheit temperature range. Celsius is a better gradation because freezing is at the sensible temperature scale of zero, and like the metric system itself, based upon tenths - it is a more accurate system. At the turn of the century around 1900, the American Congress, in charge of weights and measures as prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, failed to pass legislation declaring the metric system as the American weights and measures chart - leaving the United States the only one who didn’t use this system among the nations, failed to be enacted by five votes. That pretty well describes the historical record of our governing legislative branch called Congress, as well as the counterpoint against those who say their votes do not count.
President-elect Obama’s senatorial record concerning the illegal immigration issue and security of our borders has and is in plain view and access to the public - yet, for the Obama groupies, this was either ignored and they didn’t bother to do their research before going to the voting booth on November 4th. The result, even without the assistance of Mr. Obama producing any evidence to the contrary, is that we now have a President of the United States who is an illegal alien - and that is the technicality of it, no political rhetoric here. Indeed, a relative of Mr. Obama was found to be here illegally from Kenya, after reporters had meant to describe her economic plight and others wondered why Senator Obama had not helped her. He did send back the donation money she sent; however, like all his associates that prove to be another piece of information against him, he removed himself from contact. The question still remains concerning the Obama associate issue: Does he have bad insight in who he selects to associate with? OR Does Mr. Obama select associates to gain what his goals may be. In this case, the President of the United States - these and other important questions brought up before the election still remain as the time closes in when he will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.
In Joan Swirsky’s America the Beautiful, written in November, after the election, she wrote:
For those who witnessed, as I did, the violent racial strife of the 1960s, the assassinations of the most ardent advocates of minority civil rights, and also the redemptive messages and effective actions of Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican, it is stunning to realize that, not 40 years after blacks were being murdered for aspiring to equality, a person-of-color has been elected to the highest office in the world. And for those of us lucky enough to have also witnessed men walking on the moon, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the invention of the Internet, President-elect Obama’s election is yet another affirmation of the exceptionalism of America - its limitless opportunities, God-given freedoms, bountiful generosity, and the essential optimism and decency of its citizens. For nearly two years, our electorate has watched and listened as the candidates presented their versions of the American Dream, explained or rationalized their past and current associations, and defended their stupefying verbal gaffes. Like other conservatives, the American Dream I prefer is about small government, low taxes, a free-market economy, domestic-energy independence, a judiciary that strictly interprets the Constitution, and value for the life of the unborn. But the American electorate - besieged by a shaky economy and entranced by a charismatic “change” agent who stood for none of these values - strangely opted for a candidate who touts big government, high-taxes, strict curbs on domestic drilling (and the destruction of the coal industry), leftwing Supreme Court justices in the mold of Ginsburg and Stewart, and a remarkable disdain for the value of in-utero infants. It almost makes you believe that the people who voted for Obama have been living in an alternative universe. After all, under the first six years of President Bush’s stewardship, the economy soared to heights previously unknown, consumer confidence was at an all-time high, unemployment levels were unprecedentedly low, and the affordability of both gas and food was never a topic of conversation. … In spite of this, our electorate selected a man who promises a trillion dollars in new spending and draconian tax hikes on the most productive members of our society. His election inspired plenty of dancing in the street - both here and overseas - but the stock market reacted by taking the greatest plunge in history after a presidential election. It’s going to take a whole lot of “hope” to get us out of this Democrat-created mess! … At this point, Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s Clerk informed Philip J. Berg, the lawyer who brought the case against Obama, that his petition for an injunction to stay the November 4th election was denied, but the Clerk also required the defendants to respond to the Writ of Certiorari (which requires the concurrence of four Justices) by December 1. At that time, Mr. Obama must present to the Court an authentic birth certificate, after which Mr. Berg will respond. Also remember that on December 13, the Electoral College meets to casts its votes. If it has been determined that Mr. Obama is an illegal alien and therefore ineligible to become President of the United States, the Electors will be duty-bound to honor the Constitution. …
However, if the electorate as well as the Supreme Court had performed their job BEFORE the election it certainly would have been better because the American majority of voters would have to decide who would be President without the Obama “Change” factor. Senator McCain certainly wasn’t a prize example of statesmanship - and Joe Biden is a Democratic flunky. Either way, the race card that the political left uses so well would have been used. When it comes to political poker - the Democrats are pros when it comes to fancy card playing. Meanwhile, the Republicans moan and still don’t realize they cut their own throats by backing a senator like John McCain for President. I warned them in an article, but it certainly appears no one paid attention. The electoral process will become what it was meant to be if American voters took the primary elections more seriously. It is a decision as to who will be the final runners up. It is the time when decisions are made as to who will represent party loyalists. A time, well it should be, when independents and third parties should have the chance to represent themselves - but the two ruling political parties will have none of it, with the ardent help of the mainstream media.
And, remember the saying about people who live in glass houses? At Newsmax, Diane Alden reveals the facts concerning racism and equal rights, this is how the Democrats and Republicans have interacted through American history:
During the Civil War, Republicans planned the most significant amendments ever to our Constitution and enacted - despite fierce opposition from the Democrats - the 13th Amendment to ban slavery, the 14th Amendment to protect all Americans regardless of the color of their skin, and the 15th Amendment to extend voting rights to African-Americans. 2. For its first 80 years, the Republican Party was the only one to provide a home for African-Americans. Until well into the 20th century, every African-American member of Congress was a Republican. The same was true for nearly all state legislators and other elected officials. 3. In 1888, Republican Senator Aaron Sargent introduced the “Susan B. Anthony” Amendment to the Constitution, according women of all races the right to vote. Strong Democrat opposition to what would become the 19th Amendment delayed ratification until 1920. 4. In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of their votes, while the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes. See here and here. [America the Beautiful by Joan Swirsky] 5. When President John F. Kennedy was a senator from Massachusetts, he could have voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act pushed by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, but he didn’t. This Act only passed with the help of Republicans. After JFK was elected president, he failed to suggest any new civil rights proposals in 1961 or 1962. 6. In 1963, Kennedy decided to act on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but faced a filibuster by southern Democrats. Republicans favored the bill, which would have failed without their votes. 7. Hubert Humphrey, a member of Congress when Democrats held both houses of Congress, admitted that, “without the leadership and help of Republicans,” legislative efforts “would have been watered down or failed because of obstinate Democrats - i.e., the Dixiecrats.” 8. The Republican Leader in the Senate, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), wrote the 1960 Civil Rights Act, and was the person most responsible for defeating the Democrat filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 1964 Civil Rights Act passed the House of Representatives with 80% Republican support but only 61% of Democrats. In the Senate, 82% of Republicans supported the bill compared to 69% of Democrats. 9. Similarly, the 1965 Voting Rights Act was supported in Congress by a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats. Democrats vigorously opposed Republican efforts to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, from Reconstruction until well into the 20th century. In much of the country, racist Democrats virtually destroyed the Republican Party, which did not become a force in those areas until President Reagan’s message of freedom and equality prevailed in the 1980s. Today, the Republican Party continues its historical commitment to civil rights at home and around the world. 10. In 2004, [America celebrated] the 150th anniversary of the GOP as well as the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education - a watershed of the modern-day civil rights movement. In May 1954, former Republican Governor and GOP vice presidential candidate Earl Warren, appointed Chief Justice by Republican President Eisenhower, wrote this landmark decision declaring that “separate but equal” is inherently unconstitutional. To help enforce this principle, the Eisenhower administration drafted the 1957 Civil Rights Act and guided it to passage over a Democrat filibuster. And Ms. Swirsky points out correctly:
In Why Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican, Frances Rice, Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, tells us that, “in that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S’s: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism.”
Educated African Americans have increased over the past two decades and with that the statistic of more African Americans becoming middle and upper class citizens. They didn’t leave the ghetto by looking for excuses or just sitting back whining about their predicament - they took the bull by the horns and armed themselves by educating themselves.
The historical facts of history, as Frances Rice points out in his book, as well as Joan Swirsky in her article …
The Democrats fought just about every proposed legislation concerning civil rights from the 1860s and on into the 1960s. President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and even sent troops to protect African American students in Arkansas attending desegregated schools there. It is true that President Harry Truman issued an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military - a better showing than his predecessor, the Democratic demagogue, Franklin D. Roosevelt,[A] but it was President Eisenhower who made it happen. President Kennedy opposed the 1963 Peace March at Washington, DC by Dr. Martin Luther King that was organized by Mr. A. Phillip Randolph, an African American Republican. And it was well known then and now that Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Democrat and brother of JFK, who ordered Dr. King to be wiretapped and investigated by the FBI under the suspicion of being a Communist - but really worried about matters of sedition. Indeed, in the conspiracy scenarios, it is the FBI who sets up Dr. King’s assassination - his supposed assassin denying to his death that he did not kill Mrs. King’s husband.
Affirmative Action, once a useful legislative tool to force people to recognize rights of ALL Americans has now turned into an albatross around America’s neck. It is because the Democrats turned it into a quote system that is not only unfair to African Americans, but to all. President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, was a bigot and terminated any African American working in federal government jobs in 1912. [Note: Author did not provide source, so used mine]
Republicans founded Black Colleges. Senator Barry Goldwater, who lost the election of 1964 to President Lyndon B. Johnson, fought to stop the discriminatory laws of the South. Democrat from Texas, President Lyndon Johnson demonstrated his racism by expressing anger at Dr. King’s protest against the Viet Nam War by referring to Dr. King as “that Nigger preacher.”
Senator Robert Byrd, a Southern Democrat, formerly a member of the Ku Klux Klan has been deemed as a “prestigious” statesman by the Democrat Party.
Today, the Republican Party doesn’t fare well because they have left their political platform behind - using the same ideology and tactics, sometimes, as the Democrats, just in a different manner.
Frances Rice states:
Today Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. … Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30-40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. Over $7 trillion dollars has been spent on poverty programs … with little, if any, impact on poverty.
Joan Swirsky writes:
In 2004, they blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Bill Clinton before he finally signed it. They are opposed to school-choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools, and they blocked Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).
And with this only being the tip of the iceberg of Barack Obama’s political history with the Democrat Party - we enter a new era, or a continuance of a new era begun in the last ten years and identified, in which racism has come to the forefront. By now we should have gotten past that point. I did not vote for Senator Obama, and it certainly wasn’t because of his African heritage or the pigmentation of his skin. It was because, although in the beginning he intrigued me, Mr. Obama has proven to be a crafty tool of the political left, the movement to replace our democratic republic with a cross between pure democracy and an engineered form of socialism designed to be subtle in its appearance. History proves that after a point, that subtleness disappears and the real face of the monster is revealed. The movement began in our institutions of education, a lesson from the Lenin and Stalin camp that knows if a nation’s youth can be corrupted and kept ignorant of the true nature of things - facts and truth, it will take more time than forced revolution, but it will be far more effective.
If the America voter was so bent on having the first African American President of the United States - why didn’t they afford Alan Keyes the opportunity? He has left the Republican Party and refuses to bend to the Democrat Party and its agenda - being independent and recently starting his own third party. Many people don’t even know about Dr. Keyes, because the mainstream media doesn’t want him to know and the two traditional parties certainly don’t want any more competition.
In the Election of 2008, I didn’t vote for Obama or McCain. I voted for the Constitution Party - only because Dr. Alan Keyes did not meet the Wisconsin candidate requirements presently enforced. I refused to accept the voting atmosphere of choosing the best of the worst. Of course, without majority voter support this could never happen - thus the need for real change by the American voter.
It is time for an independent political president or a third party president. Recent history demonstrates that is the only way that the traditional political entities, Republican and Democrat, will truly reform itself, or just fade into the back pages of history. We need an independent who believes that the US Constitution is a document like no other document in the history of government, and although there are challenges in applying it to the changing conditions and events of the world - it stands strongly on itself - a foundation that produced the greatest story of a nation on Earth. While luck was on the side of the Founders in having territory to create a nation filled with natural resources and big enough for growth, and while history reveals the mistakes of Americans and their government - I fear that today’s Americans are not learning from past mistakes. They are becoming increasingly ignorant of history and truth. It is because my generation allowed corruption and the silent entry of socialism in our educational and government institutions, as well as perpetrators getting away with it. And during that course of change, one can witness the future result at this rate.
America does need change, but not what this President-elect has to offer thus far.
I am hoping, because he is a sincere communicator with the people, setting up a website to do so even before he takes office and promising to take into serious consideration of what the People of America are saying - that he will forget any assumed or liable favors owed to those associates in question, which includes the progressive socialists that have smothered the Democrat Party for decades - and now threatens the counter-acting party that seemed to hold things together for a time - the GOP.
And, excuse me, but at minus ten degrees Fahrenheit without the wind chill factor as I write this - I cannot possibly jump on the Global Warming or Climate Change wagon[B] that President-elect Obama is setting up for is administration policy. I believe in maintaining a clean environment - air and water - but let’s do so in a sensible way without listening to the alarmist environmental wackos that have permeated the entities that produce laws and policy.
Mr. Obama has demonstrated that he can flow with what is actually going on in the real world, versus the world of political rhetoric and false intellect, by his initial response to national security issues as well as important foreign policies. Let’s hope Mr. Obama will be like Mayor Richard J. Daley, Sr., a product of the Chicago Political Machine yet was truly sincere and used his power to improve Chicago and its people, for the most part. However, even in that incidence, we cannot ever allow the checks and balance system be destroyed or the rule of law set aside.
And, in conclusion, I report that as of December 8th, 2008, according to the Chicago Tribune, in an article entitled Court Won’t Review Obama’s Eligibility to Serve by Tim Jones …
The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election. Donofrio says that since Obama had dual nationality at birth — his mother was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject — he cannot possibly be a “natural born citizen,” one of the requirements the Constitution lists for eligibility to be president. Donofrio also contends that two other candidates, Republican John McCain and Socialist Workers candidate Roger Calero, also are not natural-born citizens and thus ineligible to be president. At least one other appeal over Obama’s citizenship remains at the court. Philip J. Berg of Lafayette Hill, Pa., argues that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii as Obama says and the Hawaii secretary of state has confirmed. Berg says Obama also may be a citizen of Indonesia, where he lived as a boy. Federal courts in Pennsylvania have dismissed Berg’s lawsuit.
Don’t blame the Supreme Court for their decision - it was a technicality that should have been brought up and addressed by the Electoral College and someone responsible for real journalism among the many in the mainstream media during the campaign - not allowing Obama to go any further without a decision being made by the Supreme Court or the election entity responsible to ensure that rules are applied and followed.
In the meantime, Americans need to educate themselves, be more responsible in their voting habits - and vote for people who are constitutionalists For the People, as well as being a communicator to the people. Americans who work hard and produce need to be the ones rewarded, not the ones who are political and social parasites. Members in Congress and the person sitting in the Oval Office, as well as the justices and judges in our judiciary system should represent the best of us - not the corrupted, uneducated, self-centered people now controlling our government as a majority.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [A] It was President FD Roosevelt who rounded up innocent Japanese Americans to be sent to camps - losing their rights, their homes, jobs and businesses, just because they were immigrants-become-citizens from Japan, who performed a dastardly and cowardly attack upon Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941.
[B] Or whatever made up descriptive terminology chosen to steer the facts away from junk science.
Lots of words just to whine about the US not being on the metric system!
;-)
Some very thotful information. I especially appreciated the information regarding the Republican Party as originators of many of the Amendments and the initial home of African Americans.
So far only 3 replies; this thread will never make it to bugzapper status. The article is too wordy.
Exceptional article! Could’ve used paragraphs though. I did read it all; needs a follow-up to point out where the Republican Party went wrong, with the result that blacks quit voting Rep. at some point, 20-30 years ago? In what years did the Dems woo them away, and by what attractions?
You must be right, it is obviously lacking in pictures for the DUmmies to see.
It was good reading and maybe its over their head? Too many sentences without the mandatory F*** word?
In what years did the Dems woo them away, and by what attractions?
***It was the Rainbow Coalition IIRC, and the Vietnam war. Reaching past that point is beyond my time.
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