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To: stan_sipple

The Obama question in this matter will not be settled until someone has ehe guts to actually do the hard work and prove one way or another his actual status as a citizen


3 posted on 09/02/2009 2:09:24 PM PDT by screaming eagle2
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To: screaming eagle2
Team Obama has seized upon a narrow opening in the Constitution. Presidential candidates must be "Natural Born Citizens."

Clearly, as the son of a foreigner, our POTUS is not. Now, who's supposed to "police" this clause? The Constitution doesn't actually say. The Electoral College? The Congress? State legislatures? The SCOTUS cannot. It is not within its constitutional authority.

I am of the party that believes that this is a power belonging to the states. Yet no state has set a statutory process over it. Time to do that. A state has to pass a law on Presidential Candidate Eligibility.

Then if the potential POTUS wannabe, or his followers, object, they would have to bring suit, thereby giving the SCOTUS authority to rule on the constitutionality of that state's law, and along the way finally setting down in stone exactly what the heck a "Natural Born Citizen" is.

Obama ain't. But we have to prove it in court. If there is no law to go by, we have no standing to be in court. The Chicago crook has broken no law. We have been had.

23 posted on 09/02/2009 3:59:59 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Congratulations Obama Voters! You are not prejudiced. Unpatriotic, maybe. Dumb definitely.)
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