Posted on 12/03/2008 6:53:51 PM PST by dascallie
DAMMIT! My family has fought for this country and the Constitution that binds it together! I will not stand by as certain politicians make it their motive to totally disregard the laws in this great country of mine.
Sounds like someone is setting up a movement to ignore the Constitution.
Sounds like a good argument AGAINST "anchor babies." Just because they are born here, it doesn't mean they are Americans.
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Looks like the Left is starting to downplay the importance of the Constitutional "requirement." ("It's a stupid rule anyway.")
Perhaps they know they can't win this one, so they are conceding the point, but saying the point isn't important.
Will this be their new mantra? "Obama broke the rule. So what? It's a stupid rule anyway."
If you can't win by the rules, downplay them, or change them.
Obama campaigned on "change." I'm beginning to see what he means by it.
moonbat alert at Wacko Junction
what are the odds?
looks like something has been in the works for a couple of years.
If Obama is not eligible and they ran him anyway, what about the nearly $1 Billion in donations? Sure looks like fraud. Obama supposedly understands Constitutional law, so he can't claim he was ignorant of the requirements. It was a deliberate scam with knowledge and forethought.
The stupidest provision in the Constitution is the one that permits the federal government to tax the crap out of its citizens.
Why doesn’t somebody propose an amendment to the Constitution to change this? Sounds reasonable to me.
You really want the DC clown car occupants to have a shot at the constitution?
I guess it's too late to have the Constitution sealed...eh, Barry?
Yeah, I’d say that Obama’s people have always been aware of his “little problem”.
you’re joking right?
Relevant part of the constitution:
"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."
Note that Hamilton was a citizen at the time of adoption, (1788), and he had been a resident within the U.S. since 1772. Hamilton was eligible to be president as soon as he reached his 35th birthday.
It seriously has to do with their worldview -
they see any “intertemporal” restrictions, ie, judicial rulings, constitutions, marriage contracts/vows, etc,
as invalid because those agreements were made at a time when the information available today wasn’t available.
Yes, they seriously DO think this way.
I think it wise of you to invest in reading and researching WHY there is this provision :)
Makes them all co-conspirators
Add to your suggestion.....that anyone who becomes a naturalized citizen here MUST renounce their prior citizenship....or they cannot vote.
Yep. That's why they're squealing.
Throw a rock in a herd of pigs and the pig that squeals is the pig that's hit.
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