You have an view of the Constitution based on tenditious interpretations of sources lying outside the Constitution itself which you belive somehow creates this enormous imperative that we drop everything else and focus on your obsession.
I disagree. The nation-ending disaster is not Obama serving out his term, even if he is not qualified to be POTUS based on your interpretation (which, by the way, might be correct). We have survived other illegitimate leaders. In fact I believe at least one did have a similar situation, Chester Arther perhaps?
The nation ending disaster is the fiscal one that we are on the verge of. That is what must be fixed. It’s sad to me that so many conservatives have turned into obsessive/compulsives and are literally willing to see the nation destroyed just to have some fleeting satisfaction of seeing Obama replaced with Biden.
Yes, the Constitution is worth protecting, but we’ve been doing a crap job of it for 60 years. Bush’s entire Presidency was filled with unconstitutional policies, for instance where in the Enumerated Powers is the POTUS and Congress given the power to save Africans from their diseases casused by their sexual practices?
Which do you thin would have bothered Washington more, the USA giving away 150 million dollars to a terrorist group in Palestine *OR* a President being elected whose father was a British subject when he was born? Which do you think would concern him more: the pending bankruptcy of the USA, the 100 Trillion dollars in debt and unfunded mandates, or the Hospital that the POTUS was born in.
Sure, the Constitution to worth protecting. When you fight a war you pick your battles. That’s called strategy. It is a terrible strategy to take our newly minted Congress and send them off on the “validate the 18th Century interpretation of Natural Born and remove Obama from office.”
I’m sorry you can’t see that, but a LOT of very conservative, very Constitution loving, non-RINO, American patriots do. Which is why your desires in this matter are going to be ignored.
We’re playing for all the marbles here and this issue, despite it’s importance to you, is a sideshow.
Lets do a hypothetical.
20 years from now, the son of a Chinese citizen arrives on the American political scene. The people adore him. He wins the presidency. After all, We need good relations with China, so this might help. We are behind on payments. He's gold, he was born in San Francisco. Yes, he was the son of a Chinese man, but NBC no longer applies after Obama. Afer all, He is “owed” because we have never had a Chinese president.
The communist Chinese call him up, and tell him to put all naval battle groups in a row, in the pacific. This is his fathers country calling, and he was expecting the call. Secretly , unlike Obama, he thinks Americans are dumb and lazy, and need an ass whupping for defaulting and screwing his fathers country, his country. In act, they need a good beotch slapping.
He lines up all battle groups within a 10 miles radius.
China Nukes the battle groups with one single nuke. All our soldiers are stranded in Iran.
Our Chinese president goes on TV, and he pretends to be in shock at the horror. He orders all troops to stand down to avoid further conflict until diplomacy can heal the divide.
The next day, tanks roll in through Los Angeles, Washington and NY, with the Chinese army is collecting what is owed and burning every house.
While this is happening, Our president publicly begs China to stop. He gets on the phone in private, and congratulates his compatriots. They stop, and our president thanks them, publicly, for heeding his calls for peace. He then gets the Nobel peace prize.
Our quaint, outdated and old constitution used to forbid this possibility before Obama came along.