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'Birthers' Nonsense Sets Georgia Up For Ridicule -- Again
Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer ^ | January 27, 2012

Posted on 01/27/2012 6:53:39 AM PST by transducer

We will risk the fairly safe assumption, as this is being written, that Air Force One did not make an appearance at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport sometime Thursday....

You almost have to laugh at this latest chapter in the seemingly endless “birther” saga, because about the only alternatives at this point are tears and/or nausea.

It was embarrassing enough when members of the Georgia legislature -- including, to Columbus’ acute humiliation, two members of the local delegation -- drafted a “Presidential Eligibility Assurance Act” in the last legislative session.

Now Georgians get to enjoy the added spectacle of their secretary of state, Brian Kemp, warning the president (let that sink in -- warning the president) through a White House attorney that failure to appear in a Georgia court would be “at your own peril.”...

Peach Pundit editor Charlie Harper, in a blog published this week in the Savannah Morning News, wrote: “This is a mistake. We are taught from a young age that we will be judged by the company we keep … The birther argument transcends disagreements of policy and politics and spirals into pure nuttery.” How true.

Georgia, no thanks to some judgment-impaired officials and certainly without the consent of the governed, has been slumming in the Orly Taitz nuttery neighborhood way too long. Please, for the sake of the state’s already battered image, let’s just quietly tiptoe out of this putrid political ghetto and back to the daylight side of town before we attract any more ridicule....

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: birtherism; birthers; crackpots; naturalborncitizen; nonsense; orly; orlytaitz; taitz; zot
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To: Darksheare

Your sh*tting me!

NO Way! ;>)


101 posted on 01/27/2012 8:12:10 AM PST by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: transducer; Darksheare

transducer: “Every President has a constant barrage of frivolous lawsuits...”

Yes, and interestingly enough, frivolous law suits almost never get to the courtroom. Hence one would have to suggest that perhaps this is not one of those.


102 posted on 01/27/2012 8:12:38 AM PST by visually_augmented (I was blind, but now I see)
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To: lacrew
He's not confused, it's willful ignorance.

The entire story is playing to the ignorant masses which is the dems base, trying to make them believe citizen and NBC are one and the same.

Expect future stories on how Rich White Republicans consider blacks to be 3/5 of a person and not a citizen.

103 posted on 01/27/2012 8:12:51 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: Eric in the Ozarks; Bigun
There exists nothing in American law disqualifying a presidential candidate for his parents’ birthplace.

As Bigun also pointed out, at least you have one thing correct. But that is also IRRELEVANT. It's their citizenship status at the time of the offspring's birth that matters. Neither Obama's nor Rubio's parents were citizens AT THE TIME OF THEIR BIRTH. You can't say that because they were naturalized later, that Rubio is eligible. If that's what you're trying to say. That would be some kind of ex post facto decision.

104 posted on 01/27/2012 8:13:14 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: transducer; spokeshave

Tell me, has Obama been to all 57 states yet?

[note, the Islamic world has 57 states.]


105 posted on 01/27/2012 8:13:33 AM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: transducer; administrator
Where are you getting this stuff? There is no requirement for a President to be on the ballot in all states -- Lincoln wasn't (not on the ballot in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas), for example.

Mr "This issue is "Flapdoodle" " is posting more opposition research. Again, not the activity of someone who is unconcerned with this issue, but someone who is actively working for the other side.

106 posted on 01/27/2012 8:14:24 AM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: jcsjcm
You can have a Mexican woman run across the border, give birth on our land and that child is now a citizen by birth. Do you call that a natural born citizen? Could that child be President? I would love an answer on that!

Good post. Transducer the troll doesn't get it, but our forbears already gave us an answer to your query in 1874: NO, that child could NOT constitutionally be President.

Hence Obama the Usurper.

107 posted on 01/27/2012 8:15:36 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Bigun; transducer

Way!
And by the definition of natural born citizen...


108 posted on 01/27/2012 8:15:36 AM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: transducer

You


Me


109 posted on 01/27/2012 8:16:00 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: transducer
It is the obligation of every citizen to call out abuses of the Constitution.

There is good cause to doubt Obama's status, too many questions are unanswered, too many claims unproven.

If seeking justice causes hurt feelings or civil unrest it is just too damned bad!

110 posted on 01/27/2012 8:16:30 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: visually_augmented; transducer

Yeah, amazing, isn’t it?
This lawsuit wasn’t really a so-called “Birther” lawsuit.
This was a suit to prove eligibility to be on Georgia’s ballot.
Should have been a simple thing for Obama the wunderkind to do, right?
After all, we were assured in ‘08 that he was articulate and a great orator.. as long as he’s speaking froma teleprompter.


111 posted on 01/27/2012 8:17:31 AM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Admin Moderator; 50mm; TheOldLady

Retread troll tries to sue the Admin Moderator....

and loses.


112 posted on 01/27/2012 8:17:42 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Qualifications for the presidency are:
Age 35
Born in the US

Where a candidates parents were born is immaterial.


113 posted on 01/27/2012 8:17:52 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: Darksheare

I was being just a tad facetious.


114 posted on 01/27/2012 8:18:34 AM PST by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: Venturer

As I understand the case, the Secretary of State has declared that he will make a decision, based on the decision of this administrative court judge.

Team Obama will likely appeal and all sorts of stuff...and initially one would think that he could stretch this out until after the election.

However, I believe this SOS has the authority to say ‘Team Obama, you haven’t provided enough documentation to qualify for the ballot’, at any time...and he can rely on the initial judge’s decision.

So, what we may have is finally a politician somewhere, with the cajones to stand up to ridicule, charges of racism, and media smears& snears...and do the right thing. Maybe.

If anyone else is more learned in the case, and I have mispoke, please correct me.


115 posted on 01/27/2012 8:18:47 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Bigun

I know.
;-)


116 posted on 01/27/2012 8:19:13 AM PST by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

;)


117 posted on 01/27/2012 8:19:36 AM PST by jcsjcm (This country was built on exceptionalism and individualism. In God we Trust - Laus Deo)
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To: transducer

IBTZ!


118 posted on 01/27/2012 8:20:01 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: transducer
Not so (see United States v. Wong Kim Ark.

Try again! The court explicitly states that Wong IS NOT a natural born citizen.

From Wong Kim Ark -
The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.


Now to head you off, before you make the next idiotic statment, that Minor where it talked about "natural born citizen' was only dicta. In Wong Kim Ark, the court cites Minor as precedent.

This is from the Wong kim Ark opinion -
Minor v. Happersett (1874), 21 Wall. 162, 166-168. The decision in that case was that a woman born of citizen parents within the United States was a citizen of the United States, although not entitled to vote, the right to the elective franchise not being essential to citizenship.


Minor defined the Constitutional term-of-art 'natural born citizen' to require Citizen parents. It left open whether or not children of non-Citizen parents could be included in the broader class of Citizens.

This is where Wong picks up. Wong did not fall into the class of 'natural born citizen' as defined by Minor, so they needed to continue where the Minor court left off, and decide that Wong fit into the broader class of 'Citizens' that Minor used judicial restraint to avoid.

The arguments that Wong somehow declared Wong a natural born citizen are rediculous, and if the argument ever gets adjudicated, the court will have no option but to agree.
119 posted on 01/27/2012 8:20:21 AM PST by MMaschin
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To: transducer; moder_ator
He was ruled a citizen who did not need to be naturalized to become a citizen -- i.e. he was a citizen by virtue of the circumstances of his birth, aka a "natural born citizen".

BladeBryan, is that you? Your arguments are still stupid. Firstly, the Wong Court got it wrong. They intentionally ignored the debate in Congress which explicitly stated that citizenship would not apply to the children of transient aliens. Secondly, even if the 14th Amendment so intended (which it did not) it still was not intended to re-define the Presidential Eligibility requirements which Preceded the 14th amendment and remained in effect both before and after. Thirdly, You are again behaving as a opposition partisan and not as someone who considers the whole issue "flapdoodle" as you pretend.

The Fact that you lied about this is good enough for me. I think you need to be zotted.

120 posted on 01/27/2012 8:25:54 AM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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