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EFFORT BY McCAIN, OBAMA, McCASKILL, LEAHY, CLINTON AND COBURN TO CIRCUMVENT US CONSTITUTION
The Huffington Riposte | Saturday, January 17, 2009

Posted on 05/07/2009 9:22:25 PM PDT by ckilmer

Saturday, January 17, 2009

MINDBOGGLING CONSPIRACY BY McCAIN, OBAMA, McCASKILL, LEAHY, CLINTON AND COBURN TO CIRCUMVENT ARTICLE TWO, SECTION ONE OF THE US CONSTITUTION
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In this article, originally posted in the blog of the same name, "Zapem" breaks a report of the history of sidestepping, skirting, and attempted Constitutional tinkering on behalf of unnatural born Citizen, John McCain -- thereby, an attempt to pave the way for Barack Obama.

If one were to look at the activity on Capital Hill during the campaign, there would be no question in their minds that both McCain and Obama were sweating the “natural born citizen” issue.

How do we arrive at that conclusion? We take McCain’s ingrained, glib advice and “Look at the record, my friends“.

Doing just that, we find that back on February 28, 2008, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a bill to the Senate for consideration. That bill was known as S. 2678: Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act. The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Sen. Thomas Coburn (R-OK).

Bill S. 2678 attempted to change article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States with reference to the requirements of being a “natural born citizen” and hence; the entitlement to run for President of the United States. This bill met the same fate that similar attempts to change the Constitution have in the past. Attempts such as The Natural Born Citizen Act were known to have failed and the text scrubbed from the internet, with only a shadow-cached copy left, that only the most curious public can find.

Sen. McCaskill, her co-sponsors, fellow colleagues and legal counsel, contend that the Constitution is ambiguous in article II, section 1 and requires clarification. But does it? According to the framers and such drafters as John Bingham, we find the definition to be quite clear:

I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen… . . - John Bingham in the United States House on March 9, 1866

From the days of James Madison to the present, the courts have held that the amendment process be justiciable in accordance with its constitutionality and not self-serving or political. But is that what happened here? Again, we must go to the record.

Within only five short weeks after Senate Bill 2678 faded from the floor, we find Sen. Claire McCaskill back again, making another attempt with Senate Resolution 511. On April 10, 2008, she introduced a secondary proposal in the form of a non-binding resolution, recognizing John McCain as a “natural born citizen” in defiance of the Constitution. Curiously, it contained the same identical co-sponsors, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

ABCNews.com reported:

“With questions - however serious - about whether Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is eligible to run for president since he was born outside U.S. borders on an American Naval base, Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. today introduced a non-binding resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that McCain qualifies as a “natural born Citizen,” as specified in the Constitution and eligible for the highest office in the land.

Co-sponsors include Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Barack Obama, D-Illinois; Leahy said he anticipates it will pass unanimously.”

One has to wonder — what dire urgency could there possibly have been in persisting with trying to legislate a candidate into being a “natural born citizen”? Certainly providing a birth certificate and reading the Constitution would be more than sufficient. Why did these candidates and their wishful nominees go to such lengths in the Senate when obviously, they had more pressing matters to attend to? And why were there two Senators co-sponsoring such an issue, twice, who were in direct competition with John McCain in the 2008 election?

One answer is that looking at John McCain’s long-form birth certificate reveals he was not a natural born citizen and Barack Obama hasn’t submitted his long-form at all. John McCain was born in an “unincorporated territory”, held by the courts to be not part of the United States for constitutional purposes. Barack Obama has submitted only a Certification of Live Birth, but Hawaii law will certify a live birth using that document for births that occurred even outside of the country. Furthermore, Barack Obama’s father was Kenyan and never an American citizen. Since the status of citizenship occurs at birth, this makes Barack Obama a citizen if born in Hawaii, but not a natural born citizen. One must have two citizen parents, at the time of birth, and be born on U.S. soil, to be deemed a natural born citizen and be declared eligible for the presidency. The Senate, for all their trouble, cannot legislate a person’s born status. It happens at birth, according to the law.

While Senate Bill 2678 fell to the wayside, Senate Resolution 511 was passed on April 30, 2008 as a non-binding resolution. However, S.R. 511 is not a law, but rather, a unanimous opinion. Technically, it means absolutely nothing what they’ve written as it’s not a law, nor did the matter reach the House for review. It’s a stepping-stone in the larger scheme of things that haven’t happened yet; the push to change our Constitution.

World Net Daily reported on November 13, 2008:

More than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama’s decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.

An Obama campaign spokeswoman told WND the complaints are unfounded.

“All I can tell you is that it is just pure garbage,” she said. “There have been several lawsuits, but they have been dismissed.”

Perhaps someone should have informed Obama’s spokeswoman that many of these cases have not been dismissed at all, rather they are mounting, and her statements are in fact, pure “garbage”.

Then perhaps someone may prompt an answer from the Obama spokespeople as to why they were entertaining the thought of fiddling with the United States Constitution back in February and April of THIS YEAR? Perhaps because it was in the best interest of Sen. Obama.

Then what of Sen. Claire McCaskill? What possible interest could she have had in these proceedings and leading the charge with her proposals? Was it a bonafide Constitutional issue of judicial importance, or rather a political one?

Digging further into the record we find that according to Wikki and subsequent footnotes therein:

“In January 2008, Claire McCaskill decided to endorse Senator Barack Obama in his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the presidential elections of 2008, making her one of the first senators to do so. She has been one of the most visible faces for his campaign.[14] McCaskill’s support was crucial to Obama’s narrow victory in the Missouri primary in February, 2008. She had been frequently mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice of Senator Obama in the 2008 run for the White House…”

So what we see is a definite political motive being dragged into the Senate for the purposes of legitimizing the 2008 candidates. But if these candidates were legitimate already, there would obviously be no reason for these proceedings.

So political was the motive of McCaskill, even Missouri’s Governor, Matt Blunt revealed that Sen. McCaskill was involved in the “abusive use of Missouri Law Enforcement“. This was dubbed as the “Truth Squad” during the election campaign by the media. The Truth Squad was comprised of Missouri officials and attorneys who set up shop on the streets of Missouri and threatened the public with criminal penalties and lawsuits if they engaged in critical speech against Sen. Obama. The Obama campaign also issued cease and desist letters to media station managers who carried advertisers who were unfriendly towards Barack Obama, namely, the NRA. Citizen outrage prompted this response from Governor Blunt:

“Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.”

Considering these facts and the judicial record, there is every reason to believe that Sen. McCaskill had no interest in resolving Sen. McCain’s eligibility, but Sen. Obama’s long-term. She manipulated the Senate and then threatened the media and the public thereafter, politically motivated at the prospect of becoming Obama’s Vice-Presidential pick. But it didn’t stop there.

Chairman Patrick J. Leahy entered into the Senate record a legal analysis of two high-powered attorneys hired by Sen. McCain - Theodore Olson and Laurence Tribe - both of whom are extremely politically active and biased, and attached that opinion to S.R. 511.

So controversial was that legal opinion, that it prompted a rebuttal by Professor Gabriel J. Chin of The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, in a discussion paper #08-14 entitled, Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President. Professor Chin points out clearly where Tribe-Olson sought to draw out implied theories in the law, which in reality, are simply not there and in fact have been decided by the courts already, in opposition to the suggestions offered by Tribe-Olson. Simply put, the attorneys hired by Sen. McCain attempt to fit the law into their agenda with contrived implications. Professor Chin brings the law back into focus, requiring no implied theories.

Legalities aside, in anticipation of the feared “Fairness Doctrine”, the whole of the main stream media has since acquiesced to the intimidation tactics of the Obama campaign and paraded the non-binding resolution known as S.R. 511 to the public with unfactual foolishness. S.R. 511 is neither a constitutional amendment nor legally binding in any way. Yet the media caved to political pressure and reported it to the public as Chairman Leahy dictated, giving the illusion to the pubic that said resolution was binding to the 2008 election. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

The public responded, initially by way of lawsuits contesting the eligiblity of not only John McCain, but Barack Obama and Roger Calero as well, citing them all, with equal disqualifying merit, as being constitutionally ineligible to run for President of the United States. Later, netizens of the internet caught wind of the court actions and responded with their own explosion of blogs, forums, websites, chatrooms, emails, etc. In an attempt to quell the discord, the main stream media offered personalities such as Thomas Goldstein which only served to infuriate the public further. The public saw such maneuvers as deceitful and an attempt to embarrass the now educated public.

However, the greater proof is in the activity which originated in the Senate in early 2008 which was hidden from the public, that sought to change what our representatives knew to be unconstitutional from the start. The public really needs to look no further than this activity, for it speaks to the heart of the deals that went on beyond the Senate doors. Rather than trust the preservation model our founding forefathers wrote into our Constitution, these respresentatives, beholden of the public trust, saw fit to manipulate the clauses contained therein, for the sole benefit of their own political self-interests.

Perhaps our representatives, the United States Supreme Court and the main stream media would be interested in reflecting on these records and then start answering truthfully the questions which have so far been ignored. The public has been promised transparency, but to date has only been dealt scoffing, deceitful rhetoric, if they choose to address it at all.

While the public has been patient and eduring, the questions remain and refuse to be dismissed. We expect them to be answered, preferrably prior to January 20, 2009.

We the people, deserve an answer!

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Listing of 9 articles from the 110th Congress as entered.

1 . SENATE RESOLUTION 511–RECOGNIZING THAT JOHN SIDNEY MCCAIN III, IS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN — Senate - April 10, 2008
2 . REPORTS OF COMMITTEES — Senate - April 24, 2008
3 . SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS — Senate - April 10, 2008
4 . JOHN S. McCAIN, III CITIZENSHIP — Senate - April 30, 2008
5 . MEETINGS SCHEDULED — Extensions of Remarks - April 21, 2008
6 . Daily Digest - Friday, April 18, 2008
7 . Daily Digest - Thursday, April 24, 2008
8 . Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
9 . Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sources:

http://thomas.loc.gov
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←→Calendar No. 715
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. RES. 511
RESOLUTION
Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=sr110-511

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-simple-resolution.htm



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: akaobama; birthcertificate; certifigate; citizen; clinton; eligible; foreignborn; fruitloop; ineligible; mccain; mclame; moonbat; naturalborn; naturalborncitizen; obama; panama; usurper
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To: calcowgirl

Wow, that is interesting. Thanks for pointing me to that. You dig up such interesting stuff in your research.


41 posted on 05/08/2009 12:44:17 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

I hadn’t read it before and I was just chuckling at all the comments here because it was obvious no one else had read it either. I figured you’d be interested — being a fellow truthseeker and all. :-)


42 posted on 05/08/2009 12:58:22 AM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: calcowgirl

I am interested. At this hour my eyes are so tired I tend to skip links. I’ll have to come back and read it tomorrow.


43 posted on 05/08/2009 1:05:55 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye; Arguendo
McCain was born on the Naval submarine base. Here's a link to the birth announcement in the Panamanian paper, originally posted by the WaPo (it's on the second page of the pdf file).

McCain Birth Announcement

The birth certificate submitted with the Hollister v. McCain lawsuit, which states he was born in Colon, is a forgery.

I agree with Arguendo that it's a moot point either way.

44 posted on 05/08/2009 1:38:25 AM PDT by browardchad
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To: TigersEye

The facts that matter are his parents are both American citizens, and their reason for being abroad were military service of our country. And “rule” that focuses on other facts (like the “fact” that he happened to be born in a Panamanian hospital) leads, as I already pointed out to an obviously absurd result and has rightly been disregarded for our country’s entire history.

I don’t know why I’m even arguing with you. This is obviously irrelevant, and people who focus on it are rightly seen as kooks.


45 posted on 05/08/2009 6:18:19 AM PDT by Arguendo
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To: Arguendo
There isn't any argument. You made a false statement and I corrected it. I didn't say anything about what it does or does not mean.

I already pointed out to an obviously absurd result and has rightly been disregarded for our country’s entire history.

Now that you bring it up give one example where it has been ignored. Or is that just more bull you're slinging off the top of your head?

46 posted on 05/08/2009 9:24:50 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: browardchad; calcowgirl
You are accepting the birth announcement in the newspaper over the BC? And furthermore you are claiming that McCain forged his BC too? LOL

I agree with Arguendo that it's a moot point either way.

That's your opinion. I didn't make a point about it either way.

47 posted on 05/08/2009 9:27:47 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

That fact was tangential to my main point. When you corrected it, I said it still didn’t matter since my main point stood, and responded with some snide comment implying that I was ignoring all facts.

If you want one example of where some people raised the objection and no one cared, look at the case of Chester Arthur.

But go live in your fantasyland where people like you are actually relevant if you want.


48 posted on 05/08/2009 9:54:27 AM PDT by Arguendo
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To: ckilmer

I’m gonna do my damndest to see that McKaskill is not re-elected.


49 posted on 05/08/2009 9:59:15 AM PDT by demsux
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To: TigersEye

The whole thing makes it look like McCain was totally snookered.


50 posted on 05/08/2009 10:19:10 AM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: ckilmer
Not entirely. It would appear that McCain has real problems regarding a claim to 'natural born citizen' status. The Canal Zone was neither 'in the United States' nor 'outside the jurisdiction of the United States' and that statute law at the time had no provision for that unusual circumstance.
51 posted on 05/08/2009 10:51:57 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Arguendo
...and responded with some snide comment implying that I was ignoring all facts.

No I didn't. I didn't even imply that.

52 posted on 05/08/2009 10:52:55 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2246688/posts?page=38#38
53 posted on 05/08/2009 10:59:31 AM PDT by Arguendo
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To: Arguendo

What is your point? That was very specific to your false assertion. It in no way can be inferred to include “all facts.” That is just a baseless assumption you made to create a straw man.


54 posted on 05/08/2009 11:05:09 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

Yeah, obviously. /s

As I said, go live in your fantasyland where your arguments matter.


55 posted on 05/08/2009 11:10:05 AM PDT by Arguendo
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To: Arguendo

Take your straw man arguments and retire. You’re finished here.


56 posted on 05/08/2009 11:17:32 AM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye
You are accepting the birth announcement in the newspaper over the BC? And furthermore you are claiming that McCain forged his BC too? LOL

That's right -- everything's a conspiracy! The Panamanian newspaper of  70+ years ago -- a conspiracy!

McCain forged his own birth certificate!  Eleventy!!!!!

Why ruin a perfectly good conspiracy theory with reality?

57 posted on 05/08/2009 3:55:56 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: browardchad
You're the one who said he forged his BC. Apparently that is easier than forging an old newspaper. /s

Of course rational people realize that newspaper announcements aren't
researched articles and the people who write them aren't senior editors.

58 posted on 05/08/2009 4:37:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: ckilmer

obumpa


59 posted on 05/08/2009 10:42:19 PM PDT by Dajjal (Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
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To: Arguendo

“How does John McCain fail to meet this definition? He was clearly born within the jurisdiction of the United States (on a Naval base) even if he was not born on US soil.”

The hospital he is alleged to have been born at was built 5 years after he was born. He was very likely born 1 mile away at Amador Guerrero Hospital in Colon. It is a walk across the park, but it isn’t the Canal Zone.


60 posted on 05/14/2009 10:09:10 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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