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Go `Birthers' go! (MSM starting to make arguments to cover Obama even if born in Kenya!)
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Posted on 07/21/2009 6:32:52 PM PDT by pissant

The increasingly popular term for them is "Birthers" -- the indignant, frantic, seething fringe Republicans who are persuaded that there is strong doubt about where President Barack Obama was born and, therefore, strong doubt about the legitimacy of his presidency.

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Even assuming Obama was born in Kenya despite the considerable evidence that he was born in Hawaii, that five-year provision in the law was intended, pretty clearly, to prevent a person from claiming U.S. citizenship when he was born in another country to parents who were long-time residents of that country, simply on the grounds that one of his parents was still, technically a U.S. citizen.

Say "Jim" is born in the U.S., lives here until he's 11, moves with his parents to Germany, comes of age there, marries a German woman and, when he's 25, has a child. As a matter of national policy and common sense, we don't want Jim's child to be able to claim automatic U.S. citizenship -- he is born in Germany to long-time residents of Germany. Declaring him a U.S. citizen is fundamentally absurd.

The thinking behind the law seems to be that if Jim spent at least five of his 10 years after age 14 in the U.S. before moving to Germany, he has been sufficiently "Americanized" that his children shall be considered U.S. citizens.

It's fairly clear to me and, should push come to shove, will be fairly clear to the courts and to Congress, that the law was not intended to be a "gotcha!" moment used to deny citizenship to the children of life-long U.S. citizens in their late teens who happen to be out of the country when they give birth.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: bho; bho44; birthcertificate; certifigate; colb; kenyabelieveit; larrysinclairslover; obama; truthers; usurper
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Ummmm....is it okay if I pass on the “mints”? Maybe one of our male FReepers could try that?

I don’t think your tag line is sarcastic at all but asks an honest question. And the answer is that it’s not working out well at all.

Ya know, it might look cool on a post-it note....THANKS!


161 posted on 07/21/2009 9:55:27 PM PDT by azishot (Please join the NRA.)
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To: azishot

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Is he eligible to be President ?


162 posted on 07/21/2009 9:56:43 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: SpaceBar; All
If the COLB is a forgery, that alone is a felony, checkmating the whole matter.

Remember, with Nixon it wasn't the break in, It was the Coverup. The fake COLB is Obama's Coverup. When do the hearings begin? Maybe Hillary could help again!? Deja' Vu all over again?

163 posted on 07/21/2009 9:57:12 PM PDT by Art in Idaho
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To: Uncle Sham
Anyone serving in Congress can demand to see proof of "qualifications" by the President elect and in fact are required to do so by their oath of office from Article six.

Uh, wasn't this supposed to happen January 8th?

They are oath-bound to "support this Constitution" and if they are not enforcing it, they are breaking their oath of office.

So Congress failed to demand BO prove his eligibility. They have failed. The lot of them.

So, as you can see, there is a process right there in our Constitution. If it has been enforced, then we have a right to know who did what and where the evidence is. If it hasn't been enforced, we do not have a President.

We do not have a President.

164 posted on 07/21/2009 9:58:09 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Polarik

Big ol’ BTTT!!!...


165 posted on 07/21/2009 9:59:43 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: pissant; STARWISE

Related thread:

Why should it even matter if Obama was born in the U.S.? (Cafeteria Constitutionalism?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294497/posts


166 posted on 07/21/2009 10:04:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I am Jim Thompson!!)
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To: pissant
This article is a joke. It ridicules the birth certificate issue then proceeds to lay the groundwork for a defense in the event that Obama is proven not to have been born in the US. Their argument....."But it wasn't the law's intent!"

Journalism is a disgrace. This is the same Chicago Tribune that pushed to have Jack Ryan's CUSTODY RECORDS and Blair Hull's DIVORCE RECORDS RELEASED! The more I read this stuff, the more outraged I get!

167 posted on 07/21/2009 10:07:27 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: HerrBlucher
You are absolutely correct, including those fine RINOs over at The Next Right, who unceremoniously booted me off their website for being a "birther".

All they really wanted to talk about was how best to gin up the grassroot so they could best reoccurringly hit them with donation appeals.

ex animo

davidfarrar

168 posted on 07/21/2009 10:11:04 PM PDT by DavidFarrar
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To: Know et al; penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; ...
We need a "Blue Dress" discovery event.
169 posted on 07/21/2009 10:13:42 PM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

That would be fun.


170 posted on 07/21/2009 10:16:35 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Obadiah

Yes,how ‘bout that.They know its coming and look to trying to frame it.


171 posted on 07/21/2009 10:19:09 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (I am Jim Thompson,Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: STARWISE

Thanks so much for the links! Will definitely check them out.

Gotta spread the word that he’s NOT ELIGIBLE!!


172 posted on 07/21/2009 10:26:11 PM PDT by azishot (Please join the NRA.)
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To: CommieCutter

How do they explain the millions of dollars that went towards his campaign from overseas that was never explained?The sonofabitch is not qualified period.SOROS has his prints all over this.


173 posted on 07/21/2009 10:26:27 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (I am Jim Thompson,Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: STARWISE

Great. The way MicHELLE dresses, we’re doomed.

Doomed, I say!

DOOMED!


174 posted on 07/21/2009 10:28:25 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 182 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Polarik

It’s the PERFECT response.


175 posted on 07/21/2009 10:32:13 PM PDT by azishot (Please join the NRA.)
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To: annelizly
what gets me is this: the entire GOP during the election....NO ONE thought to check his credentials??????

While the left could not pursue the issue for their own reasons, IMO the reason the GOP could not pursue it is the same reason that conservative pundits could not pursue it. The risk is too great. If Obama was in fact born in Hawaii, and released his long form birth certificate to prove it, those who had claimed otherwise would lose credibility and find themselves permanently branded as racists.

Prominent conservatives don't want to find themselves in Andrew Sullivan's position. Any remaining shreds of Sullivan's credibility were destroyed when Sarah Palin's doctor released her summary of Palin's medical history, confirming that Trig was Palin's son, not Bristol's as Sullivan had claimed. Sullivan has now become simply a punch line, the gay obstetrician.

176 posted on 07/21/2009 10:33:31 PM PDT by TChad
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To: pissant

Medved is a putz.Sums it up perfectly.


177 posted on 07/21/2009 10:34:58 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (I am Jim Thompson,Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: LucyT

There were so many instances leading up to the election that told anybody with common sense that this cat was not who he said he was.


178 posted on 07/21/2009 10:39:29 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (I am Jim Thompson,Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: conservativegramma

I like they way you think.


179 posted on 07/21/2009 10:44:00 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (I am Jim Thompson,Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: jokyfo

The rest of the people in Kansas were smarter then.They knew a wack job when they met one.


180 posted on 07/21/2009 10:47:48 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (I am Jim Thompson,Life is tough.It's even tougher when you're stupid.)
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