Posted on 03/02/2009 5:31:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama has hired an army of lawyers to prevent access to records that may show he is constitutionally unqualified to be president of the United States. Doesn’t that seem odd to you?
The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."
A California lawsuit seeking documentation from Occidental College that could verify the nationality under which Barack Obama entered the school has been filed by Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, which has brought a lawsuit on behalf of Ambassador Alan Keyes over Obama's eligibility. Defense lawyers for Obama are trying to quash the request for Occidental records, arguing that any objections to Obama's presidential candidacy and victory should have been raised in Congress at the time of the Electoral College vote. However there was an effort to raise the question with the Electoral College but the court refused to intervene. Lt. Col. Donald Sullivan sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Electoral College vote in North Carolina until Barack Obama's eligibility could be confirmed, alleging doubt about Obama's citizenship but his case was denied.
As part of the suit filed by USJF, a subpoena was served on Occidental College for its records. School officials immediately contacted lawyers for Obama and said the demand would have to be answered unless they intervened. Obama's lawyers then submitted a demand to the court arguing the case was moot because the election was over and the correct place to resolve such concerns was in Congress now and challenges should have been made to the Electoral College who confirmed Obama’s election as president. [But as pointed out previously such an effort was timely made but was rebuffed.]
Papers filed on behalf of USJF also cautioned: "If MR. OBAMA is not constitutionally eligible to serve as President of the United States, then no act that he takes is, arguably, valid, the laws that he signs would not be valid, the protective orders that he signs would be null and void, and every act that he takes would be subject to legal challenge, both in Courts of the United States of America, and in International Courts, and that, therefore, it is important for the voters to know whether he, or any candidate for President in the future, is eligible to serve in that office."
Obama has refused to document his U.S. citizenship and as a result his eligibility to be president under the Constitution's requirement for a "natural born" citizen, have been challenged in court.
"MR. Obama’s actions to block any attempt to inquire into his status as a 'natural born citizen' raises questions which must be answered in order to avoid a situation where, perhaps several years in the future, it is discovered that he was not eligible to serve as President of the United States, and, therefore, all of his acts would be null and void, and that the resulting chaos could lead to a constitutional crisis, immobilizing the United States," the USJF said.
Obama supporters have all along stated that his birth certificate was posted on the internet web site. However the "Certification of Live Birth" which was actually posted doesn’t confirm a birth location. "[Hawaii] statute 138 allows foreign born children of HI residents to get HI [Certificates of Live Birth] and get them based on a statement of one relative only. While Hawaiian officials confirmed a birth certificate exists, they did not exclude the possibility it was "one obtained for a foreign born child." It is also noted that in Obama's immigration to Indonesia at age 5 he was considered an Indonesian citizen.
In addition to the USJF law suit, many other suits have been filed and all are documented in various article posted on the internet, including several described by WorldNet Daily. Some of the lawsuits question whether Obama was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. Some suits contend that if he was born out of the country and some contend that Obama's American mother was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.
Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth. This would make the father a dual citizen. However the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.
Although Obama could settle all questions about his eligibility to be president by simply producing his birth certificate or authorizing others to do so; instead, a series of law firms have been hired on Obama's behalf around the nation to prevent any public access to his birth certificate, passport records, college records and other documents.
Obama has refused to document his U.S. citizenship and, therefore, his eligibility to be president under the Constitution's requirement for a "natural born" citizen.
What do you conclude from this?
Can you imagine the outcry that would have happened so long ago had this been a Republican? The person never would have made it past the primary.
He has shown, however, that he is morally and intellectually unqualified.
Yep. I was a skeptic early on because there was no way the democrats could be so stupid and nominate someone who couldn’t serve. I assumed it would all be cleared up before the election and Zero would be proven eligible.
That obviously hasn’t happened and the democrats show an ever more blatent disdain for the constitution and the people it represents.
Keep up the pressure.
One day soon, someone who can do something about this, such as leaking information on some record somewhere, will become angry enough about the destruction of our country and economy that he will act.
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What is it? Does anyone know?
We once had a free press.
Nobody had the balls to call him on it, for fear of being labeled a racist.
The fact he has spent close to a million dollars (or so I’ve heard) in fighting the release of ANY of his records (birth, scholastic, passport, et al) suggests to me he definitely has something to hide.
I dunno. John McCain was born in Panama. He released his actual birth certificate for all to see.
>>>Can you imagine the outcry that would have happened so long ago had this been a Republican? The person never would have made it past the primary.
Well, there are those that claim that being a natural born citizen requires birth on US soil, which would disqualify McCain. See the case of D’onfrio vs. Wells, which argued being a “natural born Citizen” requires meeting both of two criteria: (1) citizenship must be passed on by the constitutionally pertinent principle of natural law, which assumes that citizenship is inherited from one’s father’s citizenship, and (2) citizenship must be granted by means of being born in the actual territory of the United States.
Can you imagine the “Presidential Library” he will build (if allowed) that will have NOTHING in it about his “pre-Presidential Past”? It won’t take up much room...
It appears to me that the reason The One is moving his agenda so fast and pushing so hard for everything he wants is that if he’s declared ineligible to be POTUS, all the crap he’s enacted so far will stand for the balance of his term. After that, the next POTUS, hopefully a Pub, will reverse all of The One’s BS.
Thus far, his desire to keep his BC (if one truly exists in Hi) secret has more weight than the Constitution of the Unite States.
Whether he is a natural born citizen or not, that scenario in itself is an outrage.
Thus far, his desire to keep his BC (if one truly exists in Hi) secret has more weight than the Constitution of the Unite States.
Whether he is a natural born citizen or not, that scenario in itself is an outrage.
Sorry for the double post. It didn’t look like it posted the first time.
Two things:
1)Previously the proof was self-evident. Armies of relatives, neighbors, and friends could testify to the family and candidate's standing in the community. These people were witnesses to the mother and her newborn in the community.
Since Obama can not provide self-evident evidence, he should be required to provide other evidence ( birth certificate, as well as, school, immigration, adoption, passport travel, and repatriation records.
2) Moral integrity...but no more.
It is impossible to write enough laws to control an immoral people. In the end, the success of our republic rests upon the good will and honesty of its citizens. The Marxists in our nation's schools, media, entertainment, and arts are quickly driving a stake through the heart of morality.
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