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To: cycle of discernment

Told ya so.
Can we now move on to more likely to succeed opposition to Obama?


3 posted on 12/08/2008 7:13:53 AM PST by Viet Vet in Augusta GA
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA
Yep. Anyone who thought the birth certificate thing was going anywhere was positively looney. It's the same crowd that barked for years in the 1990s, "If the people only KNOW x, y, z about Clinton, they'll impeach him/throw him out/his popularity will fall." Nope.

The voters know all they want about Obama.

It is now time to get serious in the fight against his POLICIES.

6 posted on 12/08/2008 7:15:57 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA

“Told ya so.”

Big freakin’ deal...that doesn’t make you an intellect! We all knew it would probably fail..but that doesn’t mean it should....or that we shouldn’t try, and continue to try. That’s what’s wrong with the GOP, with the whole system...people with no backbone to try to correct what’s wrong..even though they get slapped down...then to get up and try again. That’s the American fabric.


83 posted on 12/08/2008 7:33:50 AM PST by Dscott_FR (Right Wing Extremist and proud of it!!)
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA

Only thing worse then an OBot is people who say “I told you so.”


149 posted on 12/08/2008 7:53:54 AM PST by Frantzie
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA

Well heck, why don’t we just throw out the whole Constitution. Hey fella, we’re moving right on to communism. I guess that’s no big deal with you.

My question to you is this, is there anything about the Constitution you are willing to fight for?


150 posted on 12/08/2008 7:54:10 AM PST by dools007
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA

“Can we now move on to more likely to succeed opposition to Obama?”

What do you have in mind?


167 posted on 12/08/2008 7:59:14 AM PST by monday
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To: Viet Vet in Augusta GA; mquinn; All

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.


170 posted on 12/08/2008 8:00:30 AM PST by rlmorel ("A barrel of monkeys is not fun. In fact, a barrel of monkeys can be quite terrifying!")
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