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Rick Santorum: Obama's eligibility is 'solved'
WorldNet Daily ^ | September 17, 2011 | Joe Kovacs

Posted on 09/19/2011 7:52:54 AM PDT by Windflier

JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. – The Republican presidential candidates appearing in last Monday's tea-party debate in Tampa made plenty of news when it came to issues such as Social Security, job creation and Big Brother mandates, but one subject that was not brought up during the event was the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama.

Yet once the debate was over, some were willing to address the matter.

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told WND, "My understanding is that issue was solved. If there's evidence to the contrary [showing Obama is not eligible], they should bring it forth."

The Constitution requires a president to be a "natural-born citizen," which many legal analysts believe means being the child of two U.S. citizen parents at the time of birth.

When that was pointed out to Santorum, he responded, "I don't think that's what the Constitution requires, and he (President Obama) was born in the country, so it doesn't matter."

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


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KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; eligibility; naturalborncitizen; obama
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To: thecodont

He’d only prevaricate.


101 posted on 09/19/2011 6:02:13 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Windflier

How many of the other candidates have been asked this same question? And what were their answers? It’s kind of unfair to single out Santorum who at least took the question.

No one in the public eye wants to touch it, lest they be termed ‘crazy.’ I remember Sarah Palin calling the whole eligibility issue a “distraction” before BHO produced the “long form bc” from HI in April. Mark Levin castigated his audience and said he would not entertain the issue, either on his radio show or his web or facebook page.

I may not like Santorum’s responses and am underwhelmed with his knowledge of De Vattel, but he did at least take on the question.


102 posted on 09/19/2011 6:17:39 PM PDT by EDINVA ( Jimmy McMillan '12: because RENT'S, TOO DAMN HIGH)
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To: thecodont
It's a generational thing. You'd have to be at least 50 years old to remember having been taught the definition of "natural born citizen" as it relates to Article II requirements for the Presidency.

The problem with this argument is that nobody has been able to produce a textbook from back then that uses the current birther definition of natural born citizen. The many textbooks available on the web say the President must be born on U.S. soil, with no mention of a two-citizen-parents requirement.

103 posted on 09/19/2011 6:17:58 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: Windflier; Fred Nerks; ASA Vet
Dr. Ronald Polland: Obama's Two Minute Warning; Factcheck.org Forged Obama's Birth Certificate

Santorum agrees with FactCheck--and agreed with Arlen Specter, the Democrat in Drag.

Barry Soetero will give him a cookie.


104 posted on 09/19/2011 6:26:39 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Windflier
Here is a short story. Post election... steele is running for rnc chair... he and santorum are guest hosting together on Bill Bennett's Morning in America radio show. May have been February... icy morning... I remember it matched my mood. Anyway... these two clowns are opining about how the American electorate had moved more to the left and that the republican party had to move along with it. Both parroted the “The era of Reagan is over” crap... talking about the big tent that we needed... that the republican party needed to embrace diversity. I called steele bad medicine at the time and got major grief for it here... but I turned out to be dead on in my assessment... and santorum is just another "professional politician"... and I mean that in the most negative sense.

LLS

105 posted on 09/19/2011 6:30:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Is the person that you support a Crony Capitalist... A.K.A. CRAPITALIST?)
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To: PhilDragoo

Dr. Ronald Polland thinks the Nordyke birth certificates are forgeries, too.


106 posted on 09/19/2011 6:32:01 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: EDINVA
How many of the other candidates have been asked this same question? And what were their answers? It’s kind of unfair to single out Santorum who at least took the question.

I don't know how many other candidates have had to handle this question, but that's not the point. Santorum flunked out with those statements, because he didn't say that the eligibility question remains unanswered, as he should have.

Instead of leaving it in neutral, he went to bat for Obama by declaring, "My understanding is that issue was solved." That's unconscionable and infuriating.

You mentioned Sarah Palin's take on the eligibility issue. I recall that when Trump was 'investigating' Zero's bc, she said something along the lines of, "I think it's a fair question, and ought to be looked into." (my paraphrase)

If the damn topic is so radioactive that politicians are going to burst into flame by just touching it, then Sarah's was the correct response. She took no stance, but left the question open, as a legitimate issue of concern.

107 posted on 09/19/2011 6:34:27 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
If there's evidence to the contrary [showing Obama is not eligible], they should bring it forth."

Wrong. The burden of proof remains of the job applicant to prove his credentials are sufficient.

108 posted on 09/19/2011 6:35:03 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Truth is the first object.' -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Windflier

I believe that a lot of the candidates are isolated from current events, they just don’t live in the real world.


109 posted on 09/19/2011 6:35:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: PhilDragoo
Santorum agrees with FactCheck--and agreed with Arlen Specter, the Democrat in Drag. Barry Soetero will give him a cookie.

Just another ruling class sell-out, crapping on the Constitution. P*ss on him.

110 posted on 09/19/2011 6:39:27 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: PA-RIVER

Yep.


111 posted on 09/19/2011 6:43:45 PM PDT by Squeeky ("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
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To: TauntedTiger

Yep.


112 posted on 09/19/2011 6:44:29 PM PDT by Squeeky ("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
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To: Crazy ole coot

If it says that, please cut and paste the part where it does. Because this gets said a lot, but when you read the case thingy, that just doesn’t seem to be there unless somebody cuts out some of the words.


113 posted on 09/19/2011 6:46:40 PM PDT by Squeeky ("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
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To: LibLieSlayer
[Santorum] ...parroted the “The era of Reagan is over” crap... talking about the big tent that we needed... that the republican party needed to embrace diversity.

So, this worthless, establishment RINO thought he could run for president, and fool the Republican base in the era of the internet and the Tea Party?

Unbelievable.

114 posted on 09/19/2011 6:49:13 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: EternalVigilance
The burden of proof remains of the job applicant to prove his credentials are sufficient.

Exactly. So far, all he's done is shown the public some jpegs on the internet. Sadly, that's good enough for our Congress.

The Framers weep.

115 posted on 09/19/2011 6:51:42 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
I believe that a lot of the candidates are isolated from current events, they just don’t live in the real world.

That's an astute observation, and a damning indictment of what these people are really about. They get their ticket to wealth, power, and golden parachutes, then promptly change sides to the ruling class.

Damn them to hell.

116 posted on 09/19/2011 6:54:40 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Squeeky
Yikes. Those founding fathers were idiots. /s
117 posted on 09/19/2011 6:55:19 PM PDT by TauntedTiger (Keep away from the fence!)
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To: TauntedTiger

No. The founding fathers and MOTHERS figured we probably would not be idiots. That is also why they let us keep and bear arms. Does that particular freedom scare you, too???


118 posted on 09/19/2011 6:57:41 PM PDT by Squeeky ("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
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To: Windflier

Actually, windflier, Gov. Palin said BOTH ... “it’s distracting, it’s annoying” (February 2011) and that it was a legitimate question (April, 2011), after Trump made it a major issue. So you might say Gov. Palin was against it before she was for it? Both versions are easily googled and on youtube.

But, again, while Santorum didn’t give the ‘correct’ response as you and I might like, I would ask what other pol or public figure is willing to take it on? Other than Trump, I’ve see no one.


119 posted on 09/19/2011 7:15:53 PM PDT by EDINVA ( Jimmy McMillan '12: because RENT'S, TOO DAMN HIGH)
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To: Windflier

Sorry I didn’t make myself clear. I know, as everyone with a brain knows, that Obama is not a “natural born citizen” and is not Constitutionally qualified to be in our White House.

The reason I said I was not feeling let down by Santorum’s statement was because I would expect it from him and ALL of them in DC. They all know Obama is not qualified, but will do NOTHING about it. So Santorum did not surprise me with his statement. I would expect any of the members of Congress to brush it off or say “everything is fine, let’s move along”.


120 posted on 09/19/2011 7:39:27 PM PDT by seekthetruth (A President is sworn to uphold the Constitution. If he doesn't, IMPEACH him!)
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