Posted on 09/11/2009 12:11:01 PM PDT by STARWISE
Today, CanadaFreePress writer JB Williams posted a column discussing the two legally different documents that the Democratic National Committee produced to serve to the several Secretaries of State, in theory, certifying their presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
The punchline?
The one actually received by the States did not include language specifically referring to constitutional eligibility.
Here’s AmericanDaughter.com’s take on the above-referenced article:
Barack Obama and Joe Biden were not certified as legally eligible in the affidavits sent to the states by the Democratic National Committee. The tireless research of political writer J.B. Williams has uncovered the discrepancy.
His bombshell article appears in the Canada Free Press — The Theory is Now a Conspiracy And Facts Don’t Lie:
Aware of the fact that Barack Hussein Obama does NOT meet Article II – Section I constitutional requirements for the office of President, what well-seasoned professional politician would be stupid enough to sign their name and stake their personal career upon certifying Obama as eligible?….
The proper legal text used on the DNC Party “Official Certification of Nomination” document reads as follows, and I quote:
“THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.”….
The “Official Certification of Nomination” that was presented by the DNC in all fifty states for the 2008 Presidential election, in which Barack Hussein Obama became the new President of the United States, was almost identical, and it too was singed by Chair of the DNC Convention and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, DNC Secretary Alice Travis Germond and Notary of Public Shalifa A. Williamson, dated August 28, 2008.
But this version of the document was missing the following text, and I quote;
“- and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.”
The legal certification text on the DNC certified nomination document used for the DNC ticket was limited to, and I quote;
“THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively:…”
Williams concludes that to cover this up in the face of overwhelming evidence that Obama is not legally eligible to be president would have required complicity throughout the Democratic Party and in all three branches of government.
As a minimum, every one of the fifty state election boards must have realized that they did not receive the proper form.
We have to agree. We have been cataloguing the mounting evidence since the primary campaign, and have remained in disbelief that so many intelligent folk could refuse to see the obvious.
As Mr. Williams’ article goes on to state (the whole article is well worth the read), here’s a copy of the RNC document:
The RNC “Official Certification of Nomination” for John McCain and Sarah Palin reads, and I quote:
“We do hereby certify that a national convention of Delegates representing the Republican Party of the United States, duly held and convened in the city of Saint Paul, State of Minnesota, on September 4, 2008, the following person, meeting the constitutional requirements for the Office of President of the United States, and the following person, meeting the constitutional requirements for the Office of Vice President of the Unites States, were nominated for such offices to be filled at the ensuing general election, November 4, 2008, viz;”
The certification of constitutional eligibility is there in the RNC Certification of Nomination presented to the state Election Commissions. It’s there in the document which the DNC had prepared, signed and notarized, but did NOT deliver to the states.
At first glance, I was rather skeptical at the original posting until I started to do some research in my own archives (I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the absolute yeoman’s work that Justin Riggs has performed over at yourfellowcitizen.com which forms a fundamental basis for what I’ve similarly archived).
*snip*
Instead, as I had reported here, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made her certification (as referenced above), she certified that Messrs. Obama and Biden were duly-nominated candidates for the party, not that they were eligible for such nominations.
The fundamental question is thus:
Why would the Democratic National Committee’s political heads sign off on two legally distinct documents but then send the one with lesser verbiage to be formally accepted by the States?
Remember, it doesn’t matter what a candidate claims about eligibility insofar as their being nominated by their party. After all, each political party in America sifts through a number of potential candidates as a means to whittle the field down to who they think represents their party best.
Then — as I and others have clearly shown — it’s the responsibility of the political party to do such vetting and certifying that their candidate can be put on a given State’s ballot for that general election. At least that’s what States have claimed, to date.
Friday, September 11, 2009 Update: The wonderful thing about making postings on a blog is the kind of responses one gets — vetting of articles. Here is some commentary from this posting that might help to explain the differences between the two documents:
One source — via email — explained to me that certain States have different requirements for what needs to be on the party certification forms.
Commenter “Robert” makes reference to jbjd’s site (specifically, here and here):
It would be interesting to see and compare the certifications submitted for Kerry (who served in Vietnam), Gore (who invented the Internet), and Clinton (who will never know what drew Vince away from us).
ML/NJ
Maybe someone can did up the Clinton, Carter, Johnson and Kennedy versions. Now that would be an interesting comparison.-
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That’s what I said yesterday but I don’t have a clue where to get them.
We need Clinton’s, Carters and Bush’s to compare. How do we get them?
California is government code 6250 et seq.
example of google find
http://www.thefirstamendment.org/publicrecordsact.pdf
By the way I have found South Carolina law requires the certification to state candidates are eligible but the form filed by DNC did not have the “legally qualified” in it. Who dropped the ball in SC?
I am back in the camp that there may be more to this!
New Hampshire to Investigate
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-hampshire-secretary-of-state-to.html
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