Posted on 12/01/2008 12:52:16 PM PST by jeffo
Well, I had written to Senator Martinez ("R"-Florida) about the citizenship issue before the election. Today I got this mind-boggling response:
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Thank you for contacting me regarding President-Elect Obama's citizenship. I appreciate hearing from you and would like to respond to your concerns.
Like you, I believe that our federal government has the responsibility to make certain that the Constitution of the United States is not compromised. We must fight to uphold our Constitution through our courts and political processes.
Article II of the Constitution provides that "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." The Constitution, however, does not specify how that qualification for office is to be enforced. As you may know, a voter recently raised this issue before a federal court in Pennsylvania. On October 24, 2008, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania released an order in the case of Berg v.Obama.In that case, the plaintiff, Phillip Berg, raised the same issue that your letter raises regarding proof of the President-Elect's birthplace. Through his lawsuit, Mr. Berg sought to compel President-Elect Obama to produce a certified copy of his birth certificate.
The District Court dismissed Mr. Berg's suit and held that the question of Obama's citizenship is not a matter for a court to decide. The court further noted that voters, not courts, should decide whether a particular presidential candidate is qualified to hold office.
Presidential candidates are vetted by voters at least twice - first in the primary elections and again in the general election. President-Elect Obama won the Democratic Party's nomination after one of the most fiercely contested presidential primaries in American history. And, he has now been duly elected by the majority of voters in the United States. Throughout both the primary and general election, concerns about Mr. Obama's birthplace were raised. The voters have made clear their view that Mr. Obama meets the qualifications to hold the office of President.
After he is sworn into office, Mr. Obama will be our nation's President and I intend to bestow upon him the honor and respect due any man who holds that Office. Yet, I am certain that there will be times when I will disagree and oppose President Obama's policies. When that happens, you can be assured that I will pursue vigorously what I believe to be in the best interest of Florida and the nation.
I thank you for sharing your views with me and will keep your concerns in mind. If you have additional questions or comments, please contact me. For more information about issues and activities important to Florida, please sign up for my weekly newsletter at http://martinez.senate.gov.
Sincerely,
Mel Martinez United States Senator
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OK, so the fact that he won the election makes him qualified. Amazing
“The voters have made clear their view that Mr. Obama meets the qualifications to hold the office of President.”
And if the candidate lied about those qualifications ?????
Then the voters were misled and the vote is invalid.
They’re cowards...that’s what they’re afraid of.
We doan need no feelthy, steenkin' Constitution.
4 l8r
unless I missed it he never once even asserted that obama met the qualifications - just that it didn’t matter because of the vote.
under that logic if no one paid their taxes they would not be legally due!
Print out and send him this thread!!!!!!
He will get a ear full of truth hopefully.
This “ lack of logic” is insane!
As others have noted - to hear a statement like this from a U.S. Senator is a scary thing indeed. How about free speech? Do we let the voters decide on that?
But I have a question for someone familiar with the Berg case:
Did the court actually say anything like what Martinez is claiming - that voters and not the Constitution decide qualifications for the Presidency? I find it hard to believe that a court would make such a claim particularly when they would be looking forward to a review by Justice Thomas or Scalia or Roberts or Alito. Perhaps they just assumed that it would be Stevens et al that would do any reviewing.
How many of those piles of dung would you have over to your home for a pizza and beer?
NOt one.
I suggest you pass this letter on to Michelle Malkin. IIRC, she’s taking the BC issue seriously.
I remember president Bush speaking glowingly of this pile of crap Martinez.
If so, the US has become a true democracy, mob rule. Is this just the start of our downfall?
clever! but maybe they would find reasons to dismiss the case.
or do something worse if the constitution is truly out the window.
Voters Decide Constitutional Questions
"If the majority says it's so, it don't matter none what that constitution thing says," says Senator. . . . .
What's this? From Drudge.. U.S. active duty troops being deployed here in the States?
Ya think maybe? Our Man on Horseback is mounted up and ready to end this ruling-elite dictatorship before it gains more strength?
If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!
:) I can hope can't I?
Martinez’ answer is both fallacious and disingenuous. His claim that the voters “made it clear that Mr 0bama meets the requirements” is based on lie.
If 0bam proves to be a Black Kenyan Muslim then the voters will clearly have been defrauded.
How many would have voted a a Kenyan Muslim into office as President if they knew that before the vote?
Followed by the unique sound of millions of bolts rammed home into magazines.
Thhis idiot Obama is about to become the non president of half the citizens in our nation. Hope and Change?
This is going to be the rockiest time our nation has had since 1970.
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