To be honest, We'd like to hear a lot more from Harper down here ... ;o)
Posted on 03/15/2013 12:41:07 AM PDT by Cold Case Posse Supporter
Last month on February 25, 2013, Idaho United States Senator Mike Crapo in a response letter to citizen concerned about Obama's eligibility made this statement:
"The Constitution and federal law require that, among other things, only native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who were both American citizens) are eligible to be President of the United States."
According to the republican Senator, that makes Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada to one American parent, not eligible to be president. Where the Senator gets it wrong is when he says 'native-born U.S. citizens are eligible to be president. Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 specifically uses the words 'natural-born Citizen' to be eligible for the presidency, not 'native-born'.
"Experts reviewing the documents generally concur it contains all the elements of a valid Certificate of Live Birth,including all the relevant data and signatures."
Which experts? He needs to be contacted and asked that for the record.
They “generally” concur, do they?
Methinks someone is mighty afraid of Cruz..!!
Too bad they aren’t as concerned about the resident at 1600 PA Ave.
No kidding!
First ......Cruz is not eligible to be President. Case closed. Those who continue to state as fact that Cruz is eligible need to give it up. He is foreign born...with only one parent a citizen at time of birth
Second.....Obama has never released his real Hawaii BC (if one exists)...so I wonder which “expert” Crapo is referring to?
Sad part is that it seems the same anti-eligibility folks on the GOP side are providing cover for Obama again with the “Ted Cruz is eligible” meme. The “Frank Marshal Davis is Obamas father” nonsense got debunked when D’Souza film shows Baracks half bro George looks just like Barack. Even sadder is that a fine man like Cruz is being tossed into the eligibility mess
To be honest, We'd like to hear a lot more from Harper down here ... ;o)
Does anyone doubt Crapo was teased incessantly in school?
the precedent is now established that the constitutional requirements for natural born citizenship of the presidency is no longer relevant.
america only cares about who will be the biggest candyman. It’s time to step back and watch it crash and minimize the conservative fingerprints.
“It’s time to step back and watch it crash...”
A LOT of us have already gotten ‘well-prepared’ for that to happen. How much longer can they prop-up a 6-ton elephant with 4 broken legs? There’s only so much phony-baloney money that will support all that dead weight.
Crapo is full of it. I’ll take Mark Levin over GOP-E Mike Crapo any day of the week. Bob
You nativists sound exactly like this guy...
“Though he had previously told the Associated Press that he abstains from alcohol, Crapo was arrested for DUI at around 12:45 am EST on December 23, 2012 in Alexandria, Virginia after he ran a red light, failed field sobriety tests, and registered a blood alcohol content of 0.11 percent. [9][10]
He was transported to the Alexandria jail and released on an unsecured $1,000 bond about four hours later. [11] On January 4 Crapo pleaded guilty to a drunk driving charge. He was fined $250 dollars and received a one year suspension of his driver's license. [12]”
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So I should trust Senator Crapo because???
Who is that? A movie actor, on a movie set. Make a better point.
What Crapo is LDS?..I think that makes him ineligible on FR!
The plot thickens.
Are you sure that wasn't Slick Willy saying that?
Of course it contains all the elements of a valid COLB. It was designed that way. That doesn't mean it isn't a forgery.
Having read several of Levin's books it is probably the case that he understands the truth, but has employed ridicule, and now screens out anyone asking a question about eligibility. My guess is that he will not risk his income by joining a legal discussion with so much money at stake. Lenin's Liberty and Tyranny was valuable because Levin quoted a Madison letter that explains why the definition for a natural born citizen is not found in the Constitution. If someone doubts you the snarky response would be to ask a questioner to cite any definition in the Constitution (there is one modification of but one term, which word I'll leave as an exercise.)
As Madison explained, the framers' intent was to make the meanings time invariant. The definitions of words naturally change over time. The solution was to insist that definitions must come from the common-law and language familiar to its framers. Those are the words used by Chief Justice Waite when he needed to nail the definition, create positive law, in order to construct his decision in Minor v. Happersett. There was never doubt that a natural born citizen is born on our soil to parents who are its citizens. The definition, until Minor v. Happersett, was repeated in fifteen some cases, and stated by the principal author of the 14th Amendment, which doesn't and couldn't address natural born citizenship, in two of his addresses to the House of Representatives in 1866, before the vote.
For any who have the patience, the blogs by attorneys Mario Apuzzo and Leo Donofrio are full of both essays and dialogs with Obama operatives, several of whom are lawyers who worked for Eric Holder's law firm. The history of citizenship is fascinating, and for non-lawyers like myself, provides more legal reasoning than most lawyers ever see. http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/ and http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack-obama-de-facto-president-of.html
Of course Cruz is not eligible; neither are Obama, Rubio, Jindal, McCain, Chester Arthur, George Romney, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Roger Calaro, ... Precendent cannot be established by a mob. My guess is that the GOP wants another naturalized citizen running so that their perfidy in covering for the ineligible McCain cannot be explored. Hillary was not happy being shoved aside by Obama, who she well knew was ineligible. Were we to play the mob rule version of Constitutional eligibility, I think Hillary would see that whomever was ineligible is exposed. It wasn't Hillary who covered for Obama, though she certainly violated her oath to preserve protect and defend the Constitution.
If they really want a different definition for who is eligible to be president this is the time to sponsor bills leading to a Constitutional amendment, as eight congressmen did between 2003 and 2007. The amendment proposals by John Conyers would have made Barack eligible, as would Orrin Hatch’s; Hatch made no secret that his bill was to allow Schwarzenegger to run. Dana Rorabacher tried twice and Robert Menendez onec. I should include the Obama/McCaskill S.2678, the “Chidren of Military Citizens Natural Born Citizen Act, filed in February 2008. Their purpose was transparent. If the questionable but politically powerful former prisoner of war was running no one would dare point out that Barack told us all he was born a British subject, and is, like Wong Kim Ark, a naturalized US citizen. Barack is a “native-born citizen of the US” but must be a “natural-born citizen of the US to be eligible. S. 2678 failed or Obama and McCaskill could have filed it as an amendment, something I suspect they never intended to do. Remember, an amendment begins as a law. Congress has no authority to modify the Constitution, so making it an amendment was necessary if it was to have any effect. I would like to see a carefully crafted amendment to make the foreign born children of military citizens eligible, but McCain was born on unincorporated territory, and knew full well, after law suits and hearings, that he was not eligible. That is currently the law, and Obama's S. 2678 got nowhere.
Indeed, as apparently we are being destroyed from within!
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