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.
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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!
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Looks pretty easy.
Is he eligible to be President ?
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?
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.
Big ol’ BTTT!!!...
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
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!
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
That would be fun.
Yes,how ‘bout that.They know its coming and look to trying to frame it.
Thanks so much for the links! Will definitely check them out.
Gotta spread the word that he’s NOT ELIGIBLE!!
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.
Great. The way MicHELLE dresses, we’re doomed.
Doomed, I say!
DOOMED!
It’s the PERFECT response.
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.
Medved is a putz.Sums it up perfectly.
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.
I like they way you think.
The rest of the people in Kansas were smarter then.They knew a wack job when they met one.
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