Posted on 03/21/2009 9:58:28 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
The twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution contains what might be the key to unlocking the mystery of Barrack Obamas long-form birth certificate. It reads as follows:
1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
The portion in bold stating or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify in section three is particularly interesting in that it plainly seems to infer that a qualification of some sort must be made in order to serve as President. This is further enforced with the passage at the end of section three where it plainly states "until a President or Vice President shall have qualified." Certainly, one cannot argue that it does not require a qualification process for one to qualify. To infer that the lack of a specified qualification process means that stated eligibility qualifications for the office of president can be ignored is fallacious. The wording of this passage in the twentieth amendment clearly infers that a qualification is required, regardless of how this is done. There is only one set of qualifications listed anywhere in the Constitution that are not health related and they are listed in Article two, section one.
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.
To satisfy meeting the requirement of the twentieth amendment to qualify, a president elect must present evidence that he meets its requirements for eligibility to serve. This means that a proper birth certificate HAD to be presented by the president elect in order to serve as president. If this was done, where is that certificate and to whom was it presented? If this was done, why would we not have the right to verify and inspect it under the freedom of information act?
If it was NOT done, then under the provisions of the twentieth amendment, Barrack Obama has failed to qualify and should not be serving as president of the United States of America.
Foreign born people who move to Hawaii can, in fact, get a birth cert from Hawaii....this has all been hashed out before. But let’s keep this simple - the People should be allowed to see his birth cert, since both age and birth status are clear requirements. I don’t care if some idiot from Hawaii hints that he’s legit, or if some political website shows a grainy image, or if the dog ate his homework....just show us the darned thing. Write and call your state rep and secretary of state....demand that your state pass a law specifically requiring proof of eligibility for the next election.
I think it’s time to start a mass calling, faxing, email campaign to our representatives demanding that they get to the bottom of this. I’m willing to call my state reps. We need to get the numbers up and get this going asap. Anybody agree?
I hope you are right.
It seems like half of the citizens in this country are not really paying attention and the media is not really bringing it to their attention. It is so frustrating.
The State of Hawaii issued the short form BC to ANYONE born ANYWHERE, up until about 1972. You could be born in a foreign country, and they’d issue you one.
Obama’s sister admits she was born in Indonesia and SHE has one.
I will do so. I have emailed our representatives about everything else. I have not about this yet, but I will do so. We do need to put the heat on.
Well then, ask yourself what you would send to the U.S. Department of State if you seriously wanted a passport. The presumption here is that you actually would be serious. Which would you send, something you (now) already admit is tainted with uncertainty in acceptance by the U.S. Department of State, or something that unambiguously has no chance of being rejected?
So your position is, given enough evidence you might agree something is amiss with his concealment of all important past records, you just wouldn’t want to go on record, in the event you’re wrong. Right?
Never let the prospect of a little ridicule stand between you and doing the right thing. Every time you do, the bad guys win. And, lately they’ve been on a streak.
No banning, but let me get you up to speed as we have rehashed this issue endlessly. Feel free to ask me any questions and I will help you all I can so you can be informed too.
Ok, the state of Hawaii has confirmed that he has a birth certificate on file, but Hawaii is a rare state that allows for a birth to be registered there and issued a birth certificate if born outside the state. There are many (including our own Polarik who is a Dr. of computer graphics) who has said that the birth certificate on Obama’s website is photoshopped. You can even go look for yourself at the birth certificate at factcheck.org. Save a copy and zoom in. Notice the rectangular pixilization on the wording? That is a HUGE indicator that the text was photoshopped onto a form. Also, the seal used is a 2008 seal, but the certificate has a printout date of 2007.
Ok, so we have the Hawaii Dept of Health state (very specifically) that there is a Certificate of Live birth ON FILE, not that the information on the COLB on Obama’s website is accurate. There are plenty fo people who will say “Hawaii verified it”, not true.
As I said, if you have any more questions, please feel free to freepmail me.
Yeah, you probably won’t get banned for questioning (there are Freepers who blast us “birthers” too) but be prepared for a real quick education by declaring something a ‘non-starter’.
“I will also note that not a single person challenging Obamas citizenship has produced any evidence disputing the information in the CLB.”
Don’t you think the perfect evidence would be obama’s long form BC? And yet, he has spent hundreds of thousands in legal fees fighting it.
There is WAY more evidence pointing to him not being a NBC than there is pointing to him being qualified. By Far.
Or, second, it has been speculated that perhaps Obama is fighting releasing his birth certificate because he is trying to bait his opponents into raising the issue so he can smear then as fringers and conspiracy theorists. What does this possibility say about the character of Obama? And you have no “questions” as to this?
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I have a friend who absolutely insists this is the case. It’s a power play, and Obama will play this card in the future when the Republicans start to gain.
Let’s not forget that when Obama went to Hawaii to visit his sick grandmother, they placed his birth certificate under seal and instructed the state’s Department of Health to make sure no one in the press obtains access to the original document under any circumstances. It was a Friday night when they did this. Was this a coincidence? He left shortly afterward.
I have a CLB from Maryland in 1962. It is identical to the one that Obama has from Hawaii (except for the different state seals, etc). It is so identical that the first time I saw Obama’s CLB, my first thought was, “hey, that’s a copy of a Maryland CLB!”
That was not sufficient for me to join the Navy in 1980, or to get a passport in 1992. I was required to obtain and present a certified copy of a birth certificate from the state of MD.
That’s exactly what we think.
If you examine the document closely, even the untrained eye can detect it is a forgery. Look at the pixelation I was telling you about.
No, we are telling you that Obama has not presented a Hawaii printed COLB.
If it’s no big deal, why has he not presented this document (that he supposedly gave to factcheck.org) to a court? 20 odd lawsuits and he can’t get a lawyer to that certificate to a court unless he worried it won’t hold up and he will be committing perjury by doing so.
In other words, you believe that the government employees of Hawaii are absolutely honest, and that none of them would issue false statements or forged documants. If they are, then Hawaii is a whole lot different from all the other states in the Union.
Please follow the news a bit more closely, and you will find almost daily items about fraudulent actions perpetrated by clerks of court, voter registrars, cops, judges, politicians on all sevels, , keepers of vital statistics [birth cetrificates, death certificates, marriages],etc.
Just because a person is elected, apppointed to, or otherwise obtains a job working with and keeping track of birth certificates, and issuing forms, supposedly based on the same, DOES NOT ipso facto prove the accuracy of the of information contained in that secondary document .
And the REAL question is why that proven liar occupying the seat of the Presidency of the United States will spend millions of dollars fighting against releasing PROOF of where he was born, rather than just picking up the phone, or writing a letter, giving the folks in Hawaii permission to release that information to the press, the plainiffs in the law suits; or any other person who asks for it, for that metter. WHAT THE HELL IS HE HIDING? FROM WHOM, SPECIFICALLY? AND WHY?
Aren't you the least bit curious?
Your questions are thorough and thoughtful. Aroostook Republican is trolling Free Republic and will probably go back to Democratic Underground soon.
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