Posted on 05/21/2013 11:14:04 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
White House press secretary Jay Carney has been under serious pressure to handle the press’ grilling over the big scandals facing the Obama administration this past week, and when people get particularly stressed, they tend to do a lot of deflecting. In Carney’s case, he attempted to dismiss all the criticism of the Benghazi, IRS, and AP scandals (as well as an emerging one about Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius) by digging up what Bill O’Reilly would call an “old canard”: birtherism.
During today’s press briefing, Carney sequentially smacked down the outrage over Benghazi, the IRS, and the AP seizures by blaming most of the scandal fever on over-the-top Republican outrage. When CBS’s Major Garrett threw the fundraising scandal involving Sebelius into the mix, Carney deflected by dismissing all the outrage as misplaced as birtherism.
“We could go down the list of questions–we could say ‘What about the president’s birth certificate? Was that legitimate?’”
At this stage of the game, when outrage is building on both sides of the aisle, it may be just a little too late to dismiss this as just petty politics.
Wouldn’t it be funny if a whistleblower now comes forward about the birth certificate?
It isn’t the birth certificate. That is a red herring. The issue is that Obama claimed to be an Indonesian citizen to get a scholarship at Oxidential College.
The man claimed to not be a US citizen as an adult. Stop looking at him when was 6 days old and look at what he did when he was 18-20
gee, Mr. Carney, are you sure you really want to bring up the problem with his constitutional qualification for office?
I mean, isn’t your statement today rather like jumping from the frying pan right into the open fire?
He did answer one question in complete honesty...though not verbally. We now know that yes, without question, the Stupid burns.
It’s maybe more a case of the Obama’s real birth place being something he can’t stop thinking about. You can be sure there’s lots of talk about it where he works.
“The hat burns on the head of the thief” is an old expression describing a thief’s inability to hide his crime.
a reporter shoudl have said “Now you’re just beign silly” and keep sayign that EVERY time he tries to blame the republicans
He’s a dumb*** to bring it up - as voters who let the BC pass as n/a - could now tie the BC to other lies of Benghazi, AP and the IRS and finally see the light about it.
My, My aren’t they just a whirling mass of phony excuses?
“I have my White servants play the race card for me. How black is that?
It was more than legitimate, it was a moral necessity to demand that Obama provide the best available evidence of his place of birth. Unless he was born in the United States, he did not acquire U.S. citizenship at birth, because his mother was one year too young to have conveyed her American citizenship to her son, and his father was not an American citizen. Yet Obama refused to release what he claims to be his long form birth certificate until the end of April, 2011.
I doubt that Jay Carney knows even that tiny amount about Certifigate.
Pretty much everyone knows by now that Carney’s an idiot way out of his depth; it doesn’t help that he’s in the position of having to defend the most blatantly and unapologetically corrupt administration in the entire history of the United States.
I had not heard that any documents had been confirmed, though there was a record of a foreign scholarship being granted to an Indonesian citizen at about the time of Obama’s admission to Occidental. The issue which will apparently never be addressed given a corrupt media and judiciary is the simple truth that Obama told us, honestly and correctly, that he is a naturalized citizen because he was born to an British father.
Citizenship law is complicated, but in most countries, born citizenship follows the citizenship of the father. For the British, anyone born to a “subject” of the Crown is a natural born subject, and thus Barack is a natural born subject of the British Commonwealth. He said so himself, though omitting the “natural born subject” qualifier. He said “I am a native-born citizen of the US”. The “native-born” part fools some and is a useful diversion for others. American Indians are native-born, but were not made citizen by the 14th Amendment because their allegiance was to a different nation. Obama was made a citizen because he was presumably born on our soil, even if his mother was not old enough to convey her citizenship. He was naturalized by the 14th Amendment.
Naturalization requires sole allegiance to our Constitution. Natural born citizenship, being a “citizen”, not a subject, subjects being very different from citizens, naturally, requires both citizen parents, and having been born on sovereign US territory. That truth is repeated in dozens of supreme court cases, and made precedence in the 1875 case Minor v. Happersett, and treated as precedence in dozens of subsequent cases, including Wong Kim Ark, where Wong Kim is born on our soil, to two domiciled parents, but declared a citizen, not a natural born citizen, by Justice Gray.
Our media, congress, and courts, unable to pass an amendment to Article II Section 1 in time, though they tried, two attempts by Conyers, one by Menendez and one Orrin Hatch, though Hatch was aiming to make Schwarzenegger eligible, and one or two by Rohrabacher, Nickles, and even one by Barney Frank, all between 2000 and 2007 attest to the interest in amending the Constitution. But it didn't happen. McCain like most proposed Republican successors to Obama, Rubio, Jindal, and Cruz, is not a natural born citizen. He was born on unincorporated territory, territory finally made sovereign in 1937, the year after McCain's birth. Obama, his campaign chair Clare McCaskill, Leahy and others signed a resolution, Sen. Res 511, in which all senators said, in effect, the framers would have made an exception for McCain. But Resolutions are not law, and Congress cannot interpret the Constitution.
Obama was born to an alien father. Rubio, Jindal, and Cruz were all born to alien fathers, regardless of where they were born. This writer believes the Republican nobility wants to cover its tracks. I also would not be surprised, if Hillary survives Benghazigate, to see her challenge the eligibility of a Cruz or Rubio. McCain had been the subject of ten years of scrutiny by Democrats; the law was carefully explored, most thoroughly by Professor Gabriel Chin, then at U of Arizona Law School - “Why Senator John McCain Can Never Be President”(sic). McCain provided cover for Obama so both parties participated in the clever “birther” Alinsky operation to silence legal analysis, and probably also contributed to the endless rumors of Kenyan birth certificates and other probably imaginary document. The cover has been very professional, suggesting that Muslim John Brennan's contract with the State Department to maintain its documents was no accident.
You wonder why those who certainly know don't speak? Can anyone doubt what the IRS would do to any public personality, or to the Universities of any Law Professor, or any federal judge, or any noisy blogger who lends his authority to supreme court case law? Few know that Soro’s Center for American Progress CIO engineered the corruption of some twenty six supreme court cases on his associate’s legal reference site, Justia.com. Tim Stanley is Justia’s founder and Carl Malamud was Soro’s employee. They know they broke several laws, and have replaced some of their corrupted copies, and corrected their claim to be providing complete copies of historical cases, and also know they will not be prosecuted.
Oh joy!
I would agree...the two years at Oxidental College would have a lot of value if put out in full detail. If you went looking at what Oxidental offered....it probably still offers a Pacific Islander-type scholarship. I’m also guessing that his grades were so bad in the middle of the second year, that they kinda told him that the deal would end at the end of the second year. That’s likely why he moved on and found another scholarship deal at Columbia.
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