As a mental exercise- I've tried to put myself in the position of defending Obama in this case. It's when I do this that I'm forced to concede the opposition- those who demand an explanation, are well within the bounds of reason and legitimacy by asking these questions. Twice this week we've seen liberal bloggers begin this questioning process.
From your piece:
It is time for the Birther movement to articulate a broader rationale for their demands that Obama produce his birth certificate. They should not be grounded alone in arguments that he is not a natural born citizen, but that he has concealed every significant document which records any part of his life since the time of his birth.
This, is THE crux of the matter and begs for answers.
Very well written, Nathan
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They should not be grounded alone in arguments that he is not a natural born citizen, but that he has concealed every significant document which records any part of his life since the time of his birth.
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In addition to the TOTAL MASS of all his personal life’s journey and event records that have either been scrubbed or sealed from any public view, and as I’ve posted before:
* “Fukino’s most recent pronouncement “says nothing about just what ‘vital records’ (a new term coming from them) she’s seen.”
* “Not being a Constitutional attorney, I wonder
how it is that a state administrative official
takes it upon herself to pronounce that Obama
conforms to the Constitutional term, “natural
born citizen,” when as far as I’ve read and
seen, no official court in the land in our
entire history has EVER even take a case wherein
that issue was at question and a ruling required.”
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Most pointedly, we see his decisions and policies and we inherently know that what we sense, see and know intuitively, as McCarthy’s piece so incisively illustrates, whether as a matter of his native origin or not:
that HIS CORE PERSPECTIVE *IS* so completely, naturally and shamelessly *anti-American* that it cannot be ignored, and therefore adds to the confounding citizenship maze and growing doubts that will not go away and may yet become critical mass.
Add to that, among many other vagaries:
the peculiar McCain “natural born” resolution before the election (has anyone ever seen a comment from McCain about that ?),
the recent Abercrombie NON-BINDING resolution which so disingenuoualy included the statement about his birthplace being Hawaii,
the difference in the language in the two different DNC qualifying statements of Pelosi and the secretary of the DNC in Denver at the convention
the inconsistencies and irregularities and atypical routines of Hawaii’s peculiar citizenship standards and qualifications (adoption records, allowing family statements, etc.)
... you’d have to be completely indifferent and disinterested in the subject to NOT be saying: HUH ?
about all the Constitutional requirements in fact having conclusively and legally been met
Admittedly, his natural paranoid propensity to be opaque OVER being transparent (ironic in itself since it’s his campaign/presidency theme) is NOT anti-Constitutional, and sadly CAN exist in a candidate chosen by the uncurious, uninformed, naively unconcerned, transfixed and mesmerized voting masses, who bought a well-written FICTION.
But .. as I’ve also said:
“Isn’t it fascinating that some people actually think CONCERN about this and all the
unresolved
unreconciled
unrevealed
parsed
covered up
lied about
obfuscated
and sealed
information about this peculiar person with the sketchiest of pasts and super radical affiliations and agendae, who now has massive power and is exercising it to the hilt, to our detriment and downfall .. will just go away ?”
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If folks don’t believe there are certain vital matters worth fighting for and demanding answers, that our Consitution *must be preserved* at whatever cost and the persistent attacks on it by this crew, then we are truly lost, the American experiment will fail, and God help us all.
I pray we fight on.