For this term, absolutely.
But you can't deny that this exposed a weakness in the enforcement of clauses in the Constitution. What would you change for the next time?
Would you not support taking active measures to ensure that future presidents clearly present their credentials to the American people prior to running for office?
When a potential candidate announces that they are forming an "exploratory committee," why shouldn't the appropriate governement entities also "explore" the qualifications of the person during this exploratory phase?
-PJ
I haven’t seen anything to suggest the new President isn’t a citizen of the United States of America.
What I have seen is some on the Right of the political spectrum beginning to behave EXACTLY like the 9/11 kooks...or those afflicted by Bush Derangement Syndrome.
I think its counter productive to Conservative issues in general, and websites that end up having it up in their respective forums specifically.
JMHO here.
The rule of law is now the rule of federal dictate.
We are at the stage encountered when the Declaration of Independence was written and signed.
The people in the voting majority will be the people for whom the federal oligarchy focuses, to consolidate the federal jobs, and the powers of labor and income for those industries sympathetic to federal rule.
The unions will be empowered on a much broader scale now, the state legislatures will be made beholden to the federal coffers to stay afloat and pay the state government employees, and the orgs that can deliver the number of votes (not voters, the number of votes) will be financially empowered and put to work consolidating the power of the ruling party, the Democrats.
America ceased to be a Constitutional Republic and slid into being a federal oligarchy today, and most of the people heiling and bowing before this affirmative action fraud want it that way ... and perhaps a few conservative website owners and talking-head show clowns in radio and television.
Time to not make waves, to avoid becoming the focus of federal goons wielding a fairness doctrine. Standing up for the Constitution is too risky, draws too much attention. After all, the clause of eligibility for the presidency is so weak, so ... passe.
You said — “But you can’t deny that this exposed a weakness in the enforcement of clauses in the Constitution. What would you change for the next time?.
Enact state laws specifically requiring certain documentation in the statute language that the Secretary of State must get from the candidate in order to prove his eligibility under the Constitution, or else he cannot go on that state’s ballot.
And how would you force that to happen? Nobody could make it hapen this time, and the issue was identified in plenty of time before the election. We were impotent to do anything, and that is the chilling wake-up call. Like 9-11, this wasn’t supposed to happen here.