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Foreign Policy: Born In The U.S.A. (CYA Barf)
NPR ^ | Joshua Keating

Posted on 07/17/2009 2:55:49 PM PDT by HospiceNurse

The weirdly persistent belief held by many Americans that President Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States has been back in the news lately thanks to Major Stefan Cook, the "birther" soldier who was granted conscientious objector status because he refused to fight for a president he believes is illegitimate. There's also a bill gathering some support in the House that would change election law to require candidates to prove their citizenship.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bc; clb; obama
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"But isn't the larger scandal that the anachronistic natural-born citizenship requirement in Article II of the constitution still even exists?"

The beginning of the changing of the subject.

1 posted on 07/17/2009 2:55:49 PM PDT by HospiceNurse
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To: HospiceNurse

Why does the author of the article or anyone else, find it “weird” that We The People want to see proof The Usurper is not a usurper?

Guilty is as Guilty does, and he is guilty.


2 posted on 07/17/2009 2:58:30 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force." George Washington)
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To: HospiceNurse

NPR?!

Someone’s concerned.


3 posted on 07/17/2009 3:00:51 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: HospiceNurse
Joshua Keating works for NPR and that requires him to be a citizen or a legal immigrant.

Anybody wanna' bet ol' Josh probably doesn't qualify?

4 posted on 07/17/2009 3:01:17 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: HospiceNurse
“Weirdly persistent belief” could be put to rest by Obama providing a real long form birth certificate from Hawaii.

Actually - based on the father Obama is not natural born and never can be. Only possibility is Frank Marshall is the father and even if Obama 1 is the father - they will try to claim the AA comunist is the real father. My bet is he was born in Kenya.

5 posted on 07/17/2009 3:05:21 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: HospiceNurse

What an idiot. The natural born clause was put there to, hopefully, prevent a President (Commander in Chief) from being influenced by foreign entanglements.

Besides, the Constitution was designed to protect the citizens of the United States, not those who are seeking office. Who gives a holy crap that a certain person cannot be President. There are plenty of potentially good Presidents available from the Constitutionally restricted population. This is not about Obama. It is about the people and Constitution of the United States.

I thought it was crappy that Reagan could not run for a third term. But our Constitution said he could not. I accepted that. There certainly weren’t any liberals whining that Reagan could not run again.


6 posted on 07/17/2009 3:07:09 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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To: Frantzie; TheConservativeParty; reagandemocrat; muawiyah

I honestly thought that the birth certificate thing was probably bogus. The fact that government radio is now changing the subject from, “He was born in Hawaii” to “It shouldn’t matter where he was born”, makes me think that Obama may have been born elsewhere, or was a citizen of another country.


7 posted on 07/17/2009 3:11:31 PM PDT by HospiceNurse
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To: HospiceNurse

Oh My! NPR would rather denounce the Founder’s protections for our highest office (ie. the Natural Born Citizen requirement) than to do some investigative reporting on the subject! SO PATHETIC!


8 posted on 07/17/2009 3:11:59 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: HospiceNurse
These guys...sheesh

Naturalized citizens like Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Madeline Albright have been allowed into the highest positions in the U.S. national security establishment without anyone questioning their loyalty.

Not ONE of those people served in a position that the Constitution SPECIFICALLY requires that the office holder be a "Natural Born Citizen".

It is also the same clause that requires Presidents to also be at least 35 years of age and a resident of the United States for at least 14 years...though nobody that I'm aware of has even attempted to circumvent those. Would these same retards decide those portions are anachronistic?

9 posted on 07/17/2009 3:14:02 PM PDT by Domandred (Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.. I am Jim Thompson.)
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To: so_real

NPR is trying to start the meme that NOT allowing unAmericans to be President is unAmerican.


10 posted on 07/17/2009 3:14:10 PM PDT by HospiceNurse
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To: HospiceNurse

Ahhhh .... the Liberal Word Redefinition Game! I’ve seen that played before!


11 posted on 07/17/2009 3:22:09 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: HospiceNurse

Also, an admittance that they start to believe Obama’s illigitimacy to the presidency. It just shows that these bastards put no value on the US Constitution.


12 posted on 07/17/2009 3:28:00 PM PDT by 353FMG (Death is Life without Freedom.)
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To: HospiceNurse

Also, clear proof that no one at NPR has bothered to read the Federalist Papers to find out why the “natural born” provision was included in the first place. Or, NPR people think they are smarter and wiser than the Founding Fathers. Probably both.


13 posted on 07/17/2009 3:30:33 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: HospiceNurse
Why is it less important for the “president” to prove he is a natural born citizen than any citizen applying for a passport?

That rationale is absolutely asinine.

14 posted on 07/17/2009 3:31:58 PM PDT by Know et al (Everything I know I read in the newspaper and that's the reason for my ignorance: Will Rogers)
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To: HospiceNurse

This is the change Barry hoped for ... that the affirmative action status would make America set aside the Constitution to embrace this marxist bastard.


15 posted on 07/17/2009 3:34:20 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: HospiceNurse

The gov’t run program asks:

“Let’s imagine that Barack Obama had been born in Indonesia or Kenya or anywhere else for that matter, and hadn’t become a citizen until moving to Hawaii to live with his grandparents. Is there one good reason why that would make him less fit to be president?”

Sounds like an implied admission that Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.


16 posted on 07/17/2009 3:36:24 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Frantzie

“Only possibility is Frank Marshall” (Davis)

If Frank Marshall Davis is the father of BHO, then he would be a Natural Born U.S. Citizen and a Natural Born Communist.

“My bet is he was born in Kenya.”

If BHO was born in Kenya, he is not nor ever was a U.S. citizen.

This is going to be interesting.


July 14, 2009

Birther or believer?

http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Articles-c-2009-07-14-236446.112112_Birther_or_believer.html

Dr. Orly Taitz, attorney for Alan Keyes in Keyes vs. Obama, announced late this evening that a judge has ruled in favor of Mr Keyes’ request for a trial to discover whether or not Obama is an American citizen and, as such, entitled to be President of the United States of America.

Two weeks ago, World Net Daily posted a story outlining the difficulties Taitz encountered in attempting to serve the President with a subpoena. Taitz has filed multiple legal actions around the country alleging Obama does not meet the constitutional requirements to occupy the Oval Office.

Monday’s hearing was on a request by Taitz for a default judgment, since she notified the president of the action weeks ago, and his lawyers failed to respond.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled in favor of Taitz and granted the “motion for reconsideration of order to show cause or in the alternative to certify question for appeal.”. A trial date will be set and Taitz “will immediately request access to Obama’s birth records and other documentation that could determine his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.”


17 posted on 07/17/2009 3:40:35 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (The last time I looked, this is still Texas where I live.)
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"But isn't the larger scandal that the anachronistic natural-born citizenship requirement in Article II of the constitution still even exists?"

Underlying liberal philosopy within the quote.

18 posted on 07/17/2009 3:42:01 PM PDT by tbpiper (How would you define a 'domestic enemy of the constitution'?)
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To: HospiceNurse

Yep, and how about the TOTUS spending over a million bucks to hide that pesky old document?


19 posted on 07/17/2009 3:44:46 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: reagandemocrat

Of course the naturally born citizen issue is just the overall indicator that this guy is a wholesale fraud and what used to be called a “put up job.”

A false front used by the militant left as a foil while the Nancys, the Schumers, the Barneys and the other leftist Congress-rulers-for-life milk this system for their party. The history of FDR’s destruction is being repeated.


20 posted on 07/17/2009 3:50:58 PM PDT by KC Burke (...but He has made the trains run on time.)
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