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To: Principled

Heck, if he gets away with this, the whole Constitution is meaningless (which is what he thinks it is anyway).

That said, I think he will get away with it. I would be truly stunned if the Supreme Court decided to examine this case.

Obviously, however, Obama is a little worried about it, which is why he is consolidating power so rapidly and trying to stay in the eye of the media (and hence, in the eye of his mob of brain-dead followers, just for insurance purposes). And probably the reason he is appointing so many Clintonistas is because many folks in the upper ranks of the Dem party know that he’s not eligible and just on the off chance that he gets booted, they want their apparatus in place.

That said, I don’t think there’s a chance in the world that the SC is going to examine this. The case involves three people, and they could theoretically find that none of them, including McCain, qualified as natural born. This might be a solution, but I think they won’t dare to touch it.


10 posted on 12/04/2008 3:10:25 AM PST by livius
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To: livius
many folks in the upper ranks of the Dem party know that he’s not eligible

Given the tight control of information that has characterized O's campaign, I'm not so sure they "know," as much as they suspect, in spite of all the lockstep blather. With the possible exception of Hillary. And what she might know could be something entirely unrelated to the question of citizenship, or "natural born."

I agree with your take on this situation, and given that his supporters are now quoting the opinion of the Circuit Court judge in the (ill-conceived and executed) Berg case, to the effect that the voters decide the qualifications of the President, it's one more nail in the coffin of Constitutional authority.

And I can't help wondering if that's been O's objective all along with this issue.

16 posted on 12/04/2008 3:48:10 AM PST by browardchad
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