Posted on 03/16/2009 10:08:22 AM PDT by pissant
Southern California attorney Orly Taitz has emerged as a constitutional heroine in the fight to establish – albeit late – whether Barack Obama is even legally eligible to serve as president of the United States.
On Friday, she took the bold step of presenting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts with a WND petition of some 330,000 names calling on all controlling legal authorities to do just that.
And she did it before 800 people at the University of Idaho where he was speaking.
I have to tell you, this lady is rapidly becoming one of my heroes.
This question of eligibility is quite a story – or, should I say, non-story.
Anyone who dares mention it is now demeaned as a "birther."
I'll accept the title, if a "birther" is anyone who believes the Constitution really means what it plainly says about the president needing to be a "natural born citizen."
The insults won't stop me or WND from covering this issue as we have throughout the campaign and since the election. It's not going away – not until we see the complete birth certificate instead of the certification of live birth, and get some answers to questions of obviously growing concern to millions of Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
I have been reading FR forever. Is it my imagination, or is the civility going away?
FR used to be insightful, educational, witty, and sometimes downright funny - it still is but it is also getting acrimonious and is starting to imitate the spirit of the left.
Enough! We’re better than that.
If you’ve been reading FR forever, then you will most certainly know that arguing is par for the course here.
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