Thank you for posting the Herlihy comment/documentation. Personally, I have always seen that as a genuine smoking gun. Why DID she come out with such a singular position at just that moment in time? In police/detective work there is a saying: there’s no such thing as a coincidence. Anybody who thinks Herlihy’s comment is ‘just a coincidence’ isn’t really thinking to begin with. It’s all part of the big picture—and a very damning picture it is.
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The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the ¡°stupidest provision¡± in the Constitution,1 ¡°undecidedly un-American,¡±2 ¡°blatantly discriminatory,¡±3 and the ¡°Consti-tution¡¯s worst provision.¡±4 Since Arnold Schwarzenegger¡¯s victory in the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003, commentators and policy-makers have once again started to discuss whether Article II of the United States Constitution should be amended to render naturalized citizens eligi-ble for the presidency.5 Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution defines the eligibility requirements for an individual to become president. Article II provides:
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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Of-fice who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.6 Although these sixty-two words are far from extraordinary, the natural born citizen provision is controversial because it prevents over 12.8 million Americans from being eligible for the presidency.7