Posted on 03/21/2009 9:58:28 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
The twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution contains what might be the key to unlocking the mystery of Barrack Obama’s long-form birth certificate. It reads as follows:
”1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.”
The portion in bold stating “or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify” in section three is particularly interesting in that it plainly seems to infer that a “qualification” of some sort must be made in order to serve as President. This is further enforced with the passage at the end of section three where it plainly states "until a President or Vice President shall have qualified." Certainly, one cannot argue that it does not require a qualification process for one to “qualify”. To infer that the lack of a “specified” qualification process means that stated eligibility “qualifications” for the office of president can be ignored is fallacious. The wording of this passage in the twentieth amendment clearly infers that a qualification is required, regardless of how this is done. There is only one set of qualifications listed anywhere in the Constitution that are not health related and they are listed in Article two, section one.
” 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; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”
To satisfy meeting the requirement of the twentieth amendment to “qualify”, a president elect must present evidence that he meets it’s requirements for eligibility to serve. This means that a proper birth certificate HAD to be presented by the president elect in order to serve as president. If this was done, where is that certificate and to whom was it presented? If this was done, why would we not have the right to verify and inspect it under the freedom of information act?
If it was NOT done, then under the provisions of the twentieth amendment, Barrack Obama has “failed to qualify” and should not be serving as president of the United States of America.
That's the gazillion dollar question.
When someone hides something, they have something to hide! Why won’t Obama produce his original birth certificate? Just about answers it.
Which interview was that, Aroostok? The only one Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham gave in 2004 when his birthplace was not an issue? Or the one done post-mortem by a psychic?
"In March 2008, the 85-year-old Dunham was quoted as saying, "I am not giving any interviews...I am in poor health."[19]—Wikipedia article on Madelyn Dunham
She said she wouldn't and she didn't. So WHAT INTERVIEW WAS THAT???
” I would much rather attack Obama’s dangerous leftism and economic profligacy than spend time worrying about this non-starter.”
I think you need to change the wording a little bit, it’s so exactly similar to others’ that it really looks as though you’re typing from a script.
Don't hold your breath.
1) Through our Representatives in Congress assembled. These Representatives voted 538-0, with Richard Cheney of Wyoming in the chair, to certify the election of Barack Obama. The Electoral Vote Counting Act designated this special Joint Session of Congress as the proper forum for challenges to the qualifications of electoral vote recipients, none were raised.
2) Through revolution.
You missed one.
We the people, either collectively or individually, have a First Amendment RIGHT to "petition the government for a redress of grievances." That should mean that any citizen of the United States has standing to challenge a Constitutional violation.
That makes sense!
I know that they can’t ignore the law forever.
The subpreme court put the lie to that one by sweariing in TWICE a man whose eligibility was deeply in question before their court. Sadly, We The People are no longer the sovereigns of this deceased Constitutional Republic.
Spot on.
ping to you
Well hi there, obamanoid n00b! Just which ‘interview’ are you trying to claim this occurred in?
The only conclusion that I can make is that sometime in the past fifty years, we ceased to be a nation ruled by law and became a nation ruled by men.
It is beginning to look like it is time to water the tree of Liberty once again...
You won’t have long to wait. I think obama’s handlers have decided ity’s time to send ACORN into a criminal flurry against the families of capitalist, to distract the nation from the final assasination to Capitalism, so the sheeple will beg for Amerika to join in the new world currency cure being written and printed by the BIS as we pound our keynoards.
If you read a little on Leo Donfrio's website "naturalborncitizen.com", the SCOTUS hands are constitutionally tied in many ways so perhaps there is still an opportunity to make the case. It just has to be based upon existing legal statutes and brought forth in the proper chain of events. I think that forcing the hand of our representatives in Congress to provide proof of his qualifications to serve would be a first step. After all, they pledge an oath to the constitution, not the people they serve. We must insist that they obey their oath's of office or face recall efforts.
That last sentence is not true. The data published by newspapers for birth announcements can come from many sources including information provided by family members. For example, when my youngest daughter was born, my mother placed an announcement in my home town paper by simply calling it in. It was included along with all of the other birth announcements, in the same format.
In addition, we already know that the birth was registered... but by who? Madelyn Dunham is a good candidate. She could also have provided the birth announcement to the papers, wanting her friends and and Stanley Ann's to know of the birth. While it is evidence, it is not definitive.
Since his father wasn’t a citizen of the United States, it doesn’t matter WHERE he was born. He’s not a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution.
The state health director said yesterday she has personally seen and verified Sen. Barack Obama's original birth certificate in an effort to address numerous requests for the document.
Here again, this article is not even as fulsome as the earlier one you linked, at least that one quoted her actual words. Given the actual quote in the other article, this one doesn't say anything more than that they have seen that they have it on file.
Again, there is NO support here for your contention that the state officials have examined the information on the face of the document and compared it to a purported COLB posted on someone's website.
They have verified that they have seen that his birth certificate is on file; I think that IS clear.
I think your idea of having a court proceeding to find out is fine, that's an excellent idea.
I have no idea what his long form birth certificate says, it may well say he was born in Hawaii in such and such hospital. Who knows.
See what you think. As far as I know, no one has proven Polarik to be wrong.
I thought that had been debunked,
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