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To: allmendream

What I think most amazing is how people will repeatedly post the claim that a “natural born citizen” must be born in the country to two citizens, as if this claim is an undisputed fact.

I’m perfectly willing to agree that the issue has never been definitively settled, due to a failure by the Court to rule on the issue. My reading of the various Court decisions that bear on the case lead me to have a real good idea that if the Court were to rule it would agree with you and me.

But I still don’t post my opinion as if it were a fact.

I strongly suspect that if the Court were to rule agreeing with us, a lot of these fanatics on the issue would still refuse to accept the Court’s ruling as valid.

The whole thing reminds me of the “Why doth treason never prosper?” quote.

Even if the birthers are right legally and constitutionally, they have no mechanism by which they can impose their (correct) opinion on the rest of the country. So what is the point of agitating on the issue? Spend your efforts on defeating his reelection campaign.


40 posted on 06/01/2011 1:14:35 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
What I find amazing is that they say they are following Vattel when they quote that claim as an undisputed fact - follow up with how McCain isn't eligible - insist that Vattel’s book was “the blueprint” for our Constitution - and then ABSOLUTELY IGNORE Vattel’s passage #1:217 that directly contradicts their simple minded slogan.
41 posted on 06/01/2011 1:24:32 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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