Posted on 05/17/2012 10:58:09 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii."
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Yes there is. It's called the Twentieth Amendment, Section 3
My dad was a career Army officer. Both of my parents were US citizens. I was born in Okinawa and my sister was born in Germany, both of us in the Army hospitals. This was back in the 50s. In about 1963 my sister and I went through a naturalization ceremony held at Ft Ord, CA. where dad was stationed. We were 2 of 9 children of Army personnel to receive citizenship certificates that day. I remember my dad jokingly telling me I probably couldn’t run for president. He said it wasn’t clear if we needed to do this or not but to avoid any possible problems in the future, the Army suggested it. This is just anecdotal but I find it interesting that the Army arranged for dependents of active duty military to go through this process. I still have the newspaper clipping with our pictures.
No Person who fails to qualify under Section 3 of the Twentieth Amendment can EVER be legally President. The term "No Person" doesn't allow for "ipso facto".
Unbelievable. All he had to do was go to a US consulate and register your birth. I really do have a hard time believing they made you go thru a naturalization process. It was totally unnecessary under the law then and now. The Army gave you bad advice.
Obama is legal until proven otherwise. He is signing laws and Executive Orders. Let someone disobey them and see what happens. Oh, that’s right somebody tried that and was court martialed.
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You seem gleeful that someone was court martialed for “disobeying” the usurper. What’s up with that?
LOL. You don't seem to understand the intent of the 20th amendment or what the wording "qualified" means.
Gleeful? Are you on drugs?
The burden of proof is on the President-Elect to prove to Congress that he qualifies or Congress must name a replacement. Congress not doing their job doesn't mean he qualified. It just means that Congress didn't do their job. The eligibility requirements start out with the term "No Person", which means if you fail to qualify under the provisions of the Twentieth Amendment, Section 3, you can NEVER be President.
What this country has had for the past three and a half years is a "Resident", not a President. If you like his signature so much, I suggest you get his autograph while there is still time. The clock is ticking.
His literary agent is a racist liar, who knew one day he’d want to be president, and wanted to stop him from getting uppity with his paternalistic birther lies./s
You seem gleeful. Maybe you are. Maybe you aren’t. That is how it comes across to me after reading your comment(s).
Think about it.
Please enlighten us. What does it mean?
The Twentieth Amendment also sought to resolve some ambiguity in the Constitution regarding what to do in a hypothetical scenario in which the winner of a presidential election dies before his inauguration day, or in which no candidate wins the presidency prior to the beginning of the term. (No such scenario has ever occurred in real life, before or after the passage of the Twentieth Amendment.)
You did not tell us what the term “qualified” meant or referred to.
Our births were registered with the US consulates. My birth certificate is 4 pages long. But because we were born in foreign countries we could claim citizenship of those countries. At the time, the US didn’t recognize dual citizenship. This process was to prevent any confusion.
Part of the Constitution, The Twentieth Amendment, Section 3 requires that Congress ensures that the President elect shall have qualified or they, Congress are to name an interim President. Here's the text itself.:
"3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified."
A few notes.
1. There is no such position as a "President elect", legally, until such a time as Congress has accepted the results of the electoral college votes and a person is actually named as the "President elect". This means that the term "shall have qualified" refers to something other than the results of winning an election. There is only one place left in the Constitution having to do with "qualifications" for the office of President, that being the eligibility requirements from Article two.
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
2. Since it is the duty of Congress to name an interim President in the event of a President elect's "failure to qualify", they, Congress, must know whether or not to do so. This means that they, Congress, must be aware of whether or not a President elect meets the eligibility requirements from Article two. It is the burden of the President elect to "qualify" or "fail to qualify", thus not proving one is eligible under Article Two to Congress is the same thing as failing to qualify.
3. How was Obama's eligibility proven to Congress without a valid long form birth certificate? He apparently does not possess such a thing or we would have seen it a million times by now.
4. The eligibility requirements start out with two simple words which forever preclude anyone who "fails to qualify" from serving as a legal president, "No person". Someone who sneaks in because Congress failed to uphold it's responsibility to enforce the Twentieth Amendment, section 3 doesn't legally exist. The Constitution cannot be fooled just because Congress didn't act when it was supposed to. A President elect either qualifies or he cannot ever be President, period.
What we have is a Congress that did not uphold it's oath to support the Constitution and a usurpation of the office of President is the result.
Warrant, warrant—whose got the warrant?
Everything Obama has done is illegitimate. He should be removed now and criminal proceedings should begin immediately—especially those involved in this heinous coverup. This con-artist has his finger on “the button”. He needs to go right now.
Thanks for your work!
Perhaps the military wasn’t up to knowledge about citizenship requirements(sarcasm). By the way my brother was killed on Okinawa in WWII. I visited Okinawa in 1945 to honor all those that died in that battle but especially the infantry soldiers. I almost got lost in that huge market in Naha.
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