Posted on 08/27/2011 4:38:10 PM PDT by mandaladon
The Federal Election Commission is showing signs that it might allow a Guyana-born American citizen to file papers and raise money to run for president of the United States.
The agency released two draft advisory opinions Friday that could permit New York lawyer Abdul Hassan to go through the initial steps to run for president. But the FEC’s pending decision won’t be the last word on the constitutional issue of whether someone born outside the United States can be president.
Hassan was born in the South American country in 1974, and he asked the FEC in July whether he could raise funds as a candidate for president.
The request put the FEC in the rare role of deciding a large constitutional issue that has only a few intersections with campaign finance law. The two commonly held constitutional requirements to run for president are that the candidate be 35 years or older and be a “natural born citizen.”
The agency quickly signaled that it would decide the technicalities of filing requirements while leaving the broader issue of who can run for president to the judicial branch. In an email to Hassan on July 18, the FEC stated that he understood “that although the Commission can respond to the questions asked in [his] advisory opinion, the Commission cannot make any determination as to whether [Hassan] can, as a naturalized citizen, serve as President.”
Both advisory opinions answer three of Hassan’s four questions in a similar way. They state that Hassan could be a candidate, may solicit funds and would be required to file disclosure reports. But the two opinions differ on whether he may receive federal matching funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
The second draft ducks the issue, stating that the “Commission expresses no opinion regarding this question” because it is a “hypothetical.”---------Obama got away with it...why not this guy!
Alrighty then
President Nana
And that will be the argument in the future. The Constitution becomes less and less relevant to America.
No more foreign pres_nts! Obama is enough! They are clueless as to what America is all about and are bound and determined to destroy freedom all over the world. NO! If the boy wants to be president, send him home to Guyana and he can be president there. It isn’t fair to the U.S. taxpayer to have a foreigner determining how much taxes they will be forced to pay.
Actually, I’m not sure the Constitution actually bars anyone from running for President.
As I read the document, it only bars non-natural born citizens from SERVING.
Justice Roberts should have refused to give the Oath of Office to the usurper, as HIS Oath of Office obliged him.
Roger Calero ran and got on some ballots in the last election as a socialist party candidate. He’s a previously deported resident alien.
We don’t need any rag heads running for president of the United States!
You’re correct. The problem only really arises if a foreign born person actually wins the office.
That could never happen. [/sarc]
Watching a show about snipers the other day and figured out that the rag is to make clean up easier.
Heck, let’s put Hugo and Fidel on the ballot. While we’re at it, Muammar isn’t doing anything these days.
NBC ping...
He'd have to kill the current President. Not sure he's up to that kind of challenge.
:)
bump.
I think this is why Obambi is so detached from all outward appearance of trying to be an actual president
Because 100% of his efforts are going on behind-the-scenes -mostly by the people that are puling his strings- to try to hide his past, cover loopholes about his place of birth, and get re-elected, so the stage is set for socialist takeover
Right, this guy has precedent on his side.
Why not let the whole world vote in our elections while we are at it?
But, but, but, but, the Judicial branch have told Orly Taitz, and other Lawyers, that they will not make a decision upon this question.
What if this guy refuses to submit his Birth Certificate, or any other documents?
Will someone show the American people how to determine if this guy can have his name on the ballot?
Ping................
The ultimate insult to Americans by shredding the Constitution in front of their eyes!
Read the article about allowing Ali Hassan, a Guyanan Moslem, to run for President!
I bet he would be better than 0b0z0, but that’s beside the point.
Thank you, seizethecarp.
The upside to this is that it will make the Obot’s heads explode. To define Obama as a NBC, they have said it doesn’t matter who his parents were as long as he was born on American soil. It will be back to the drawing board for them if this happens.
Though like the unprincipled Obots they are, it probably won’t take them long. They’ll soon be defining NBC as (1) born on Am. soil regardless of parents, or (2) born on foreign soil of Am. parents. They aren’t about the truth; they are about defending Obama at all costs.
And some of the post right here at FR.
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