Posted on 11/30/2008 10:03:16 PM PST by ckilmer
Most Americans don't realize it yet, but this Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court will review whether Barack Obama is indeed constitutionally eligible to become the next president.
The justices will hold a conference on the question and consider the case for formal review.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Barack Obama could have put this issue to rest long ago by producing a complete birth certificate from Hawaii. Instead, he has chosen to stonewall the matter, citing a website post of what can only be characterized as a partial representation of a birth certificate – one that has been criticized as a forgery.
Whether the birth certificate posted on various websites is genuine or not is almost beside the point as to his eligibility. Since Hawaii was known to register foreign births in the 1960s, the portion of the certificate released by the Obama campaign proves nothing, since it does not reveal such details as the hospital in which he was allegedly born.
Meanwhile, some of Obama’s own Kenyan relatives claim to have been present at his birth in Mombasa.
This controversy, which some have dismissed as frivolous, is as serious as the literal meaning of the Constitution itself.
75% of ALL the money spent by the Federal Government, RIGHT NOW, is UnConstitutional. It is already dead, we just haven’t figured it out yet.
yeah, who was the doctor?
The scary thing is that if this is how he behaves when he doesn’t yet have power, just what kind of nonsense is he going to pull when he has the full force of the executive branch?
Sun Yat-sen, the father of modern China, was able to obtain a Certificate of Hawaiian Birth when he moved there as a boy.
http://sunyatsenhawaii.org/english/visits/fifth/fifth06.html
Click on the certificate for a larger image.
correction: I believe the certificate was issued in 1904.
God save our country..
Wow! It's good that somebody has put a percentage on constitutionally unauthorized federal spending. This suggests that federal taxes can be reduced by 75+%.
And here are the statutes that are being wrongly ignored, in my opinion, by DC "leaders" who hypocritically swear to defend these statutes as evidenced by illegal earmark spending.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution (emphasis added) in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.Also, I personally don't regard the Constitution as dead. After all, even constitutionally clueless Obama has sworn to defend it. But more importantly, if the states wise up to the fact that the feds have wrongly been usurping 10th A. protected state powers since the time of constitutional flunky FDR, the states can demand their powers back.10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution (emphasis added), nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Did you hear that Texas?
In fact, given Sarah Palin's proven track record in standing up to the big guys, it's no wonder that God kept Sarah in Alaska. After all, Sarah and the other governors actually have the lion's share difference of government power to serve the people when the limited powers of the Oval Office and Congress are subtracted from total government powers. So it would have been a mistake to send Sarah to DC, in my opinion.
Of course Hawaii wasn’t a state at that point...
Historians may very well indicate that December 5, 2008 was the day the constitution died. The death of the republic would soon follow and we’d be in the middle of an autocratic dictatorship, aka emperor.
I couldn’t agree more.
I just keep thinking about the fact that no hospital in Hawaii will come forth and say he was born there.
My God, if he was actually BORN there they would be clamoring to make a SHRINE out of it!
This controversy, which some have dismissed as frivolous, is as serious as the literal meaning of the Constitution itself.
Some. I have asked around to see how folks think about this and they just don’t care. It is frightening. Some say, well he was voted President and that is what matters. It is just scary. Hopefully whatever the outcome is that the constitution will be intact when done. Hopefully Obama will have a real birth certificate. If he does not end up born in America, I just don’t know how people will react. It could get ugly.
NO, no, no....That would NOT have solved his problems!!!
NO, no, no....That would NOT have solved his problems!!!
That is such a good point. Thank you.
bttt
From the WND article: "Ayabe ruled that Andy Martin, the man who filed the suit, did not have standing under state law because he did "not have a direct and tangible interest in the vital statistic records being sought, namely the birth certificate of President Obama."
Courts do not take public opinion into account. Petitions are addressed to the executive and legislative branches. Those are the political branches. The judicial branch should never be swayed by public opinion. Judges follow the rules of evidence, procedures of the court and the law. The rule on standing protects you and me from being harrassed by busybodies with no direct or tangible interest in your private business. Birth records are not public records.
This controversy will never die. Even if Barack Obama produced a birth certificate, there would be challenges to its authenticity and chain of custody. I doubt that any of the past forty-three presidents produced evidence of their citizenship before or after taking office.
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