Posted on 05/19/2016 11:48:05 AM PDT by Java4Jay
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton criticized presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday, saying his recent behavior shows he's not qualified to president.
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Crooked Hillary just cracks me up!
Well she is drunk most of the time. Sleeps a lot.
Criminillary. In the orange jumpsuit.
Orange is the New Pantsuit.
They are truly insane. The Clintons both look like they are short, maybe very short, on time on this earth. They cannot take anything with them but their records of what they have done on this earth, whether good or bad, to stand before Almighty God. If they were sane in the least they would repent, and repent fast. What do they want with more money? Are they going to be dressed in it and have it stuffed all around them in their caskets?
Trump is more qualified than the Kenyan. Trump was born in the US of two US citizen parents. But she knows that because she, along with the Kenyan, put her signature to the definition of NBC on the SR511.
Mrs. Clinton,
I find myself once again putting on the hat of a degreed, professional journalist to educate you on the laws that govern the office for which you, and Donald Trump, are campaigning for, namely, President of the United States of America.
This morning on CNN, you said, quite clearly, that Mr. Trump is not “qualified” to be the president. All political arguments aside, I would expect someone who holds herself out to be a lawyer, albeit one with a law license that was suspended 14 years ago, to know one of the simplest things in the constitution.
It appears to be a common shortcoming of people in Washington politics who hold themselves out to be lawyers. Your former boss, Barack Obama the former “constitutional lecturer”, hasn’t held a law license since 2007.
So to realize that neither one of you operates with an accurate definition of “qualification” to be president, is troubling indeed. One would think as former lawyers, the text of that document would have more than a passing knowledge in your world.
But, like folks in my industry who collect video examples of politicians saying one thing and then turn around and saying something else and deny the first video ever existed (despite us playing it), I’m here to give you a refresher course on this very important subject that you have clearly forgotten about.
The source for this lesson is The Constitution of the United States of America. You can find copies of it at Yale Law school, where you earned your JD, at Harvard Law, where Mr. Obama earned his, or from any computer connected to the internet. Please open your copy to Article II, section 1.
Direct your attention to the fifth paragraph. It reads:
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.
Those are the qualifications to be president. Those are the ONLY qualifications to be president. Anyone saying anything short of this, or in excess to this, is demonstrably wrong, no matter what they claim. To recap (consider this the Cliff notes)
1) Be a natural-born Citizen.
2) Be at least 35 years old.
3) Have lived here for at east 14 years.
Now, you can opine that other things SHOULD be needed to be qualified to be president. But that’s OPINION, not law, and should be billboarded as such. When you said this morning, “I have concluded he is not qualified to be president of the United States,” you were wrong. Given that you once actually HELD a law license, it’s even more troubling that this is how you interpret, in your legally trained mind, the paragraph quoted, and paraphrased, above.
You went on to tell what you FELT the qualifications should be, and that’s your right, as it is of everyone in this country, citizen or not. But your accusing Mr. Trump of being unqualified is wrong and you know it. He is every bit as qualified as you are, no more and no less. Please refer again to the Cliff’s notes before you pontificate again on this subject. Your “legal conclusions” carry much more weight when you know the law. You apparently used to know the law. It’s time you looked again.
Then again, a LOT of people are looking again at who is actually trying to “preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States”.
The Dems are blowing thier talking points early. I didn’t expect this one until July.
But just look at how good Clinton is at investing in cattle futures.
She’s failed at absolutely everything she’s touched and somehow this qualifies HER to be President? Laughable.
Lame
aired Thurs May 19, 2016 between 1-2pm on CNN’s Wolf
The illuminating Trump-bashing Cuomo-Hillary lovefest lasted 26 commercial-free minutes.
Portions of it have been re-aired and discussed in subsequent CNN programs.
My take is that Hillary’s comments are a poll-tested boilerplate of how she plans to attack Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 election-—that is, IF Obama allows her to be the Dem nominee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUvGA5oAZXc
I wonder if she will consider Trump qualified after he gets innocent Americans killed in a far off land due to his own glaring incompetence?
“Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton”
She is not the “Democratic” presidential candidate.
She is the DEMOCRAT presidential candidate!.
“3) Have lived here for at east 14 years.”
Thank God Trump is from the east.
At LEAST 14 years. Can’t edit these things for typos...
Hillary talks about behavior and qualification to be president. “Alice, welcome to Wonderland. My name is March Hare. Mad Hatter and I will escort you.”
That usage infuriates me as well. Unfortunately, it is used all over the web and radio. The same goes for the use of “men” when referring to animals in crime, when they should, at best, be referred to as “males”.
The idiot speaks and the idiots listen
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