Has anybody clued Ken in on the fact that Barry’s Dad was from Kenya and his mom was too young to confer citizenship on him at the time of his birth? Just askin.
You nailed it Georgia Girl. The birth certificate is a smokescreen, intended to distract. No matter who his parents were Obama, in two autobiographies, told us he was born a naturalized citizen of the US, and a subject, probably natural born, of the British Commonwealth. Not only has Barack never claimed to be a natural born citizen, never forget that every US Senator signed their agreement to Senate Resolution on 30 April 2008 in which Senator Leahy, agreed, along with every other Senator, with Judge Michael Chertoff:
“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied. “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.”
This is a stupendous confidence job in which both parties are complicit. They feel they have no alternative but to tell anyone who questions eligibility that they are “birthers”, using Alinsky’s 5th rule applying the power of ridicule. No judge, no legislator, no media pundit will speak the words of Chief Justice John Marshall, Chief Justice John Jay, Chief Justice Morrison Waite, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Congressional Historian Dr. David Ramsay (1789), author and originator of the 14th Amendment, John Bingham, who twice explained the meaning of natural born citizens. Remember, no terms are defined in the Constitution. Definitions come from the common-law and common language familiar to its framers. The common-law was needed to decide Minor v. Happersett, and so confirmed as precedent by Chief Justice Morrison Waite who said:
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
Obama operatives along with Republicans, whose candidate McCain was never ruled eligible, want you wrapped in the soap opera mystery of Obama’s origins because the facts are there for anyone to read - but only for those who trust their abilities to reason, and who are willing to read a bit. They are counting on the public remaining sheep. More and more are finding the time to learn the truth, and the quotations above are the tip of the iceberg. There is an enormous historical record confirming what the Senate agreed with in 2008, but has now conveniently forgotten.