Posted on 12/08/2008 7:12:24 AM PST by cycle of discernment
too bad
Frmail just received:
“The National Press Club has scheduled a news conference in the Murrow Building to discuss Obama’s citizenship at 1:30 PM today.
Please let everyone know. I’m not sure on which cable channels it will be carried, if any, but it may be broadcast online in real-time. Normally, C-SPAN would carry it.”
Nice graphic, but it should read “Corsican.”
Well said, my friend. These people who are so anxious to move on do not have the guts or patience to mount a meaningful fight. Personally I think the “can’t we just move along crowd”, if they aren’t already, should reregister is demrats. That’s what they are.
naaa. they always provide fun time to watch.
KANGAROO court.
Wait a minute. The title says “Orders in Pending Cases” and says that Donofrio’s requested “stay” iss denied but did not appear to dismiss the case entirely. Why would it be under the “pending” section?
“Can we now move on to more likely to succeed opposition to Obama?”
What do you have in mind?
Yes, it does -- with breaking news you'll sometimes see five or six almost simultaneous identical threads; and then most are yanked.
Don't take it personally -- the mods try to leave the earliest one up, but it doesn't always work out that way.
This issue will not go away, the Supremme Court may or maynot hear this but they will realize the effects from their cowardness soon enough.
I wrote this on another thread, and it is just as relevant here. You and some others feel this is not an issue at all and should be disregarded. You have chosen to categorize as lunatic fringe, sour grapes or irrational, those people who think the question of Obama’s citizenship is an important issue.
I disagree, and here is why:
It has been suggested that a citizens, we are “obliged” to honor the majority choice as President elect.
We are not “obliged” to honor their choice. If Barack Obama is not a citizen as outlined in the US Constitution, then he should not be allowed to assume office.
That requirement is found in the Constitution of the United States, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5: 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.
The founders put that stipulation in there for a REASON. A specific reason. A GOOD reason, one that is just as relevant today as it was back in 1787.
If the population of this nation decides there is a valid reason to allow foreigners to run for the office of the Presidency, then the founders, in their wisdom, included a mechanism within the Constitution to change the document.
The mechanism sets a bar of difficulty that is high, but there is a reason for that as well. We WANT the document to be difficult to change, so that if a change is proposed, there will be debate to ensure it is appropriate.
It was designed specifically this way to prevent any tin pot dictator or politician from proposing and enacting changes due to a hue and cry of the moment to a document which was very well thought out.
If anyone thinks that we, as a country, can disregard both the Constitution, and the mechanism included in it to make changes to the document, then the entire document may be disregarded as the situation dictates. If that is true, we are finished as a Republic.
Do you know where the Press Conference will be shown?
We can only hope. This case never had a chance of succeeding, and quite frankly, it's making some of us look like howling moonbats. There's nothing there. This smacks of the way the left kept raising the bar on WMDs in Iraq; This person verified it - "well that's not good enough."
There's so much low hanging fruit with his policies, we should be directing fire on those.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
Coriscan? :)
“Maybe now the FR will regain a bit of its sanity and purpose.”
Not sure you’ve been around long enough to know FR’s purpose.
Not a constitutional expert, but could it be the stay was denied, but the issues in this case may be considered in light of others coming up to the court? The case is still listed under pending cases as you said.
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I can’t believe that there were posters here who actually saw this as having some chance. Totally ignorant. This was going nowhere.
CharacterCounts, as a citizen of this country, whose life is DIRECTLY affected by the actions Barack Obama, do you disagree that I do NOT have "standing"?
If this case is not examined in court, then it will NOT be on the basis of a "lack of standing", it is going to be on the basis of cowardice and political expedience.
What a blatant attempt at trying to get the party to move even more left. Won’t work, pal.
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