Posted on 02/19/2011 7:18:52 AM PST by Zakeet
For the past couple of weeks, I've been writing about Republican politicians' birther problem.
Whether or not the issue is one of mere symbolic belief or genuine agreement among large segments of the Republican base, GOP leaders feel obligated to mollify those among their base who believe the outlandish conspiracy theory that president wasn't born in the United States or that he's secretly a Muslim. But now former President George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove has come up with a new conspiracy theory that is less dumb than the original one, but not by much. According to Rove, the White House wants Republicans to continue raising doubts about Obama's citizenship in order to make the GOP look kooky:
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The problem, of course, is that at least one recent poll showed that a majority of Republicans have doubts about the president's citizenship, which explains the rise of "post-birtherism." Republican leaders don't want to anger a large section of their base by flatly calling this stuff what it is, which is nuts. So the new approach is to joke about it or to carefully avoid denouncing the idea completely.
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The idea that the issue is a "trap" is belied by the ease with which Republican leaders could shut the entire matter down. All they have to do is say it's silly.
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Passing (or failing to pass) a sense of the Senate resolution is just a political stunt. It provides no controlling legal authority
. In this case, it's as if they passed a sense of the Senate that two plus two is four.
The fact is, both McCain and Obama are eligible, since both are citizens by birth, which is what NBC means.
And even if Obama were shown not have been a citizen at birth, we'd still need 67 senators to do anything about it. But if we had 67 senators, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia would be excuse enough to remove him. No need to sort out the circumstances of his birth or get into NBC esoterica.
If the GOP does not get serious about Obama’s Eligibility....they will lose everything in 2012 that they gained in 2010. A small percentage of Birthers not voting in 2012, or voting independent/third party...and 2012 is over for the GOP
By attacking Birthers, the GOP and GOP Media just demonstrates that they are nothing more than Liberal RINOs who pander to what the Liberal Media and the Democrats think.
So many Americans have questions about Obama’s Eligibility....by dismissing those people as “nutcases” is not the way to get votes.
If you are not an Obama Birther....you will be an Obama Enabler
I'll be neither, because I won't be voting for him.
The fact is....McCain is “natural born” and Obama is not.
The ComPost cannot explain why O’Kenyan has a Connecticut Social Security number....but can attack, at will.
Liberals want war, they could get it, very, very soon.
Answer every question they ask with questions that make the MSM explain what a NBC is, what dual citizenship is, why anyone should care about obama's citizenship, lack of paperwork and history, etc.
Make them do their job by asking questions they don't have answers to. Make them do their research. Others, like Cashill, have done that research and what they have learned is coming out. Make the MSM explain how others have done the job that American MSM just won't do. Easy pickings.
McCain was not born on US soil.
He was born a U.S. citizen. that's all that matters.
Everyone concerned should stop being Obama's patsy, think smartly, and focus on requiring candidates to provide specific documentation at the state level to prove constitutional eligibility.
Republican politicians should steer well clear of this trap and focus on the jobs they were elected to do.
“I will stand with the muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction”
HOLY CRAP - did he really say that?
Had it passed, it would have been silly and irrelevant. That's because military brats, like other children born to Americans abroad, are natural born citizens. Although Bitch Napolitano, of Homeland Security, might prefer to exclude at least the military ones.
If anyone believes it is possible that Obambi likes this issue because it makes us look like kooks... Then all they have to do is prove he is a citizen and we are done for-
Why havent they?
E.G., "Be it resolved that Monday, March 31 shall be recognized as National Dill Pickle Day"
That's a congressional resolution. Obama VOTED FOR the McCain Resolution and I have a hunch that the inept old jet jockey* would return the favor, if the opportunity arose.
One of the worst naval pilots ever seen. Ever. Guy got lost over the Chesapeake. Destroyed enough US planes to become an ace .
Nope. To be a President, to hold that one singular office, the Founding Fathers had a higher standard than merely being a citizen.
To be the President one has to have no ties to another country, either by blood or by birth place.
Imagine, if you will, that McCain was elected. What would be his appropriate action if like Honduras, the local president tried to suspend the Panamanian constitution and become dictator for life?
Anything he does or doesn’t do would be seen as being influenced by his Panamanian birth.
This is why the Founding Fathers used that singular term ‘Natural Born Citizen’ for that office and nowhere else. They followed Vattel and Blackstone’s definitions: A child born of citizen parents, on the country’s soil.
Everyone concerned should stop being Obama’s patsy, think smartly, and focus on requiring candidates to provide specific documentation at the state level to prove constitutional eligibility.
Republican politicians should steer well clear of this trap and focus on the jobs they were elected to do.
Why should I waste my conservative vote on someone who lowtows to the Liberal Media...by refusing to make Obama’s Eligibility an issue?
Could Grandma’s DNA shed any light on this?
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