[Suddenly the left is interested in the birth certificate?]
If you look at this whole birth issue as a deliberate action by this administration years ago, it might be easier to see why we are seeing the far leftwing media starting this dialogue.
The scheme was designed as ‘political tar baby’. The fraudulent birth certificate was put on display with just enough flaws for to draw attention to it to go viral.
It was designed for use in the last term of the obama regime and that’s why their media are now started to pay attention. They are just doing the job they were ordered to do.
They need all Conservatives Republicans and especially our possible candidates stuck to this issue. So far Palin and others are being very smart in responding to the MSM.
Obama is illegitimate because our framers required that our president have inherited allegiance from his citizen parents. It is our common law, never doubted, and has been cited by more than a dozen justices of the supreme court. Birth certificates are like the auto registration, perhaps a misdemeanor, but the issue was potentially lethal driving which put citizens at risk.
This thread appears mostly a playground for trolls, though trolls who may be interested in diluting any serious discussion of the real issue. It was probably an oversight to assume that the original topic, words attributed to Palin, are even legitimate.
Still, you are correct. Here is just a little bit of truth, but truth for which you can find, even without leaving Free Republic, a dozen other unarguable statements by our framers and founders expressing the same clear understanding. Our framers required that our president be the child of citizens, and born on our soil. They allowed naturalized citizens into every other position in our government. The English allowed only natural born subjects into Parliament. Here is the definition, from Chief Justice Morrison Waite, after the 14th Amendment (which made no difference), in Minor v. Happersett (1874):
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
Notice that Stephanopolis and McDonald and others always ask about birth certificates. Read Morrison Waite carefully, and it is easy to see what questions they don't want you to think about. Obama Jr was not born of parents who were are citizens. Only his mother was. He is patently ineligible to be president. The Ruling Class fears the civil unrest which would result from ruling him. They cannot legally admit to be ignoring the Constitution. They have made a cost-benefit analysis that more damage would result from exposing and removing him. It is a serious problem, but the questions are completely legitimate.