State representative joins group challenging Obama's citizenship

Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | February 12, 2009 | Richard Locker

[Red Steel]

NASHVILLE – A Tennessee state legislator is apparently the first elected official to add his name as a “plaintiff” in a lawsuit by a fringe group challenging President Obama’s U.S. citizenship and constitutional right to be president.

Rep. Eric Swafford, a Republican from Pikeville, used his official Tennessee House of Representatives stationery as a “consent form” agreeing to be one of the plaintiffs in a purported legal action to obtain “original birth certificate, immigration records, passports and other vital records for Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Hussein Obama,” the letter said.

Obama’s citizenship became a point of discussion, mostly on far-right Internet blogs and forums, when he emerged as a serious presidential candidate more than a year ago -- and dismissed as baseless by legitimate organizations. But some fringe groups have continued pursuing the matter, claiming that Obama is constitutionally ineligible for the presidency.

The U.S. Supreme Court in December refused to hear an appeal of a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey man, and during the campaign last year, the Obama campaign posted on one of its Web sites a copy of his Hawaii birth certificate.

But one of the groups is touting on its Web site that Swafford is the first elected official to join its action and posted the “consent form” he sent under his legislative letterhead dated Feb. 9.

Swafford, 35, a conservative in his third term in the legislature, could not be reached immediately for comment, but Democratic colleagues said today the letter is an embarrassment to the state.

“What is the mentality of these kinds of people that continuously make these kinds of goofy statements?” said Rep. Larry Miller, D-Memphis. “It’s embarrassing. We’re the joke of the nation, and they continue to make us the joke of the nation.

“It makes you want to not even go up and serve in the House with them,” Miller said

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner said he asked Swafford on the House floor today to see his birth certificate.

[Bronwynn]

Bobby Jindal’s parents were immigrants from India and not American citizens at the time of Jindal’s birth in 1971, making Jindal a citizen, but not a natural born citizen of two american parents.

As soon as the scandal of Obama’s eligibility spread like wildfire, at least on the internet, Jindal quietly stepped away from seeking the GOP 2012 nomination and said he would not be running.

[Don Joe]

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No, he can't do that. Well I have news for you. This isn't going away. He is hiding and he's not natural born. They are going to find out and then a whole lot of people are going to be up on criminal fraud charges and in jail. It is YOU who say that natural born is up for interpretation. I have proof that according to the framers, it's not. It's history and we found it. Go find yourself some historians and let them educate you because you're obviously very illiterate.

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Wow.

Remind me to type slower next time, eh?

I'll try to put it into small words and short sentences. Maybe this time you'll READ what I say, rather than taking a stab at GUESSING what I meant and then attacking me over what I didn't say.

OK, here goes:

1. The laws don't matter.

2. The facts don't matter.

3. The fix is in.

But hey, you keep on tilting at windmills. If nothing else, you'll learn how a truly corrupt world really works. Let me know when that lightbulb turns on, and you are struck with the sudden realization that it's NOT a simple matter of "proving to them that he's not qualified for the office" -- that they already KNOW it, and they don't care about it, because he's their guy, they've got an agenda, and they are NOT about to hear you out, then go, "Oh, dear, you're right! I guess we'd better impeach him!"

Tell me -- have you ever had any direct contact with bona fide criminals? You know, stuff like "getting robbed" (like the time a couple of junkies held a knife to my ribs as they relieved me of my five bucks).

If not, here's a suggestion: Save your breath -- don't waste your time trying to convince them that they're breaking the law. It'll only amuse them -- or infuriate them. Either way, there's no percentage in it for YOU.