To the best of my knowledge, the essay excerpt below has not been posted before. It is a MUST READ for anyone who follows the Eligibility lawsuits. It is an excerpt from one of the best-researched essays on the topic of the office of President and Natural Born Citizen qualification, written by Charles Gordon titled Who Can Be President of the United States: The Unresolved Enigma. It was published in 1968, during the time when then Gov. George Romney of Michigan ran for the 1968 Republican Party nomination for President. Romney was born in Mexico and had he won the GOP Nomination would have likely tested the Natural Born Citizen question via the legal mechanisms described by Gordon more than 40 years ago. Undoubtedly many of the attorneys who have filed Eligibility lawsuits in the last 18 months have read Gordons essay, especially the lawyers going the quo warranto route. Undoubtedly, too, many of the DNC attorneys (and now US Attorneys protecting the office of the President) have read Gordons essay, successfully threading the loopholes UP TO THIS POINT that could have stopped Obamas DNC nomination process at the State and Federal level February through August of 2008. Reaction time was critical in the month of August 2008, when Obamas Certification of Life Birth was released just one week before the DNC Convention and Speaker Pelosi signed off on Obamas Eligibility. Plainly put, the DNC in 2008 exploited the system via the State election laws and Boards, as well as with the DNC Nomination process, and knew EXACTLY what they were doing. The MSM's exuberance to elect the first African-American president and the MSM's reluctance to ask realistic questions about Obama's Eligibility made it all the easier for the DNC. Gordons essay may have even been the primer for the DNC strategy to push past Obamas Eligibility questions, as Gordon's essay is the only one on this topic that offers quo warranto as a legal remedy. Undoubtedly too, the DNCs decision for Obama to be the first major Presidential candidate NOT use Presidential Election Campaign Fund dollars thereby avoiding a later FEC investigation was also part of a strategy to go around built-in Checks and Balances regarding Presidential Eligibility. Not all legal strategies to challenge Obama's Eligibility are contained within 1968 Gordons essay, but beyond the Constitutional question (and crisis) of what is a Natural Born Citizen in the sense of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 lies the difficulties vexing Eligibility attorneys particularly Legal Standing. Judge Carter in last fall's "Barnett v. Obama" was actually very helpful in this regard, despite his inability to rule on the case. The are other avenues, such as couple of lesser-known cases in the 9th Circuit, as well as numerous other strategies that shall not be discussed publicly, offer other alternatives. With the dozens of Eligibility lawsuits in the system at various levels, some discontinued but many moving up the legal food chain, each new case probes Obamas Eligibility question from a slightly different angle. A success via a death by a thousand papercuts is inevitable at least one lawsuit will break through to acquire Legal Standing and successfully challenge on the Merits of Obamas status as a Natural Born Citizen at the Federal level. Heres the excerpt, with my emphasis added to highlight the important sections:
There remains the traditional method of construing the Constitution
Thus, the alternative has been for those who aspire to the Presidency
The election mechanisms established by the various states may
Since interpretation of the presidential qualification clause involves
If a judicial determination can be obtained, an early presentation of
But once a major party becomes committed to a Presidential candidate,
Finally, it may develop that there has been no judicial determination and
It is quite possible, of course, that the courts might find the issue In the end, I personally can see no other alternative than for the Courts to decide this, as Congress is too partisan to seriously tackle this question. Despite nearly 30 attempts by Congress to legally define or otherwise alter the interpreted meaning of "Natural Born Citizen" since the 1870s, no Bills have ever made it to the floor for an actual full Congressional vote. |
Bump.
(1)About 20% of all living Americans are presently capable of understanding that the Amazing Birth could have taken place in Hawaii, or on top of the Washington Monument at High Noon on the 4th of July, and one Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. could still never be, or become, a "Natural Born Citizen" of the USA, as required by Art. II of the Constitution, because the man he claims as his father was not an American Citizen. Why? Well because legal tradition holds that a "Natural Born Citizen" has two American Citizen parents. This fact is well known to BHO, Jr., and to prove it, he never claims to be a "Natural Born Citizen." All he claims is "Native Birth." BHO, Jr.'s handlers know that the difference between the words "Natural," and "Native," is now beyond the scope of understanding of most Americans under 70 years of age.
(2) About 35% of all living Americans don't really give a rat's rectum if our POTUS is eligible or not, and know far more about Brittany Spear's muffin top than they will ever know about George Washington, the location of Washington DC, the Constitution, or long division.
(3) About another 30% of Americans are actually OK with the guy as POTUS because they love watching black people say really nutty things on TV. Oprah, Obama. Whatever.
(3) 10% are illegal aliens and will vote for whomsoever they are told, or where ACORN delivers their multiple absentee ballots, for fear of losing ACORN-brokered welfare benefits, sweetheart mortgage deals, or SBA Loans.
(4) The remaining 5% (If you are counting Philadelphia voters that total percentage is allowed to be higher) believe that once our POTUS is proven ineligible, he will be so mortified, and Congress so shocked, shocked I tell you, that he will resign, or be immediately impeached and convicted. It is for this 5% that I have the deepest sympathy.
OBTW, of course it will eventually be shown that BHO, Jr. is ineligible to run for, or hold the office of POTUS. This will happen when he is a grandfather and again working as a Marxist Community Organizer, in Chavez City, Venezuela.
Can you tell me where you found your excerpt?