Posted on 05/12/2019 4:32:01 PM PDT by upchuck
As Spygate proceeds to its certain conclusion -- the trials of those who engaged in this scandalous coup attempt -- we receive the details of the scheme only in dribs and drabs. Too many were involved and have too much to lose at this point by not revealing to the investigators their role in exchange for more lenient treatment, which is why I believe all will soon be revealed.
So for the moment let’s turn to the broader picture that explains in large part why so many officials were so determined to keep Donald Trump from the White House and to oust him once he won the election.
To me, it has seemed they are clinging to the privileges and benefits of an order which is dying because its underpinnings -- the post-World War II order -- no longer suit the citizens of the countries involved, or the changing world.
In this respect, I was much taken by this article in the Claremont Review by Christopher Caldwell.
The subject of this essay is Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who famously closed his country’s borders to hordes of migrants from Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. I urge you to read the entire article, which I can only selectively discuss. As Caldwell explains, Hungary has been a member of the European Union since 2004 and his political party was closely aligned with Angela Merkel’s. Remembering Hungary’s history and intellectual curiosity, Orban rejected the policies of the E.U. on migration.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That's been true here since before Nov. 2008.
It will be much more satisfying when it's true everywhere! :)
While what Clarice has to say is spot on, personally, I don’t give a $hit about Europe or the rest of the world at this juncture. In the United States we have had a failed coup attempt brought to us by people within our own government (or the one that existed with Obola to be completely correct). But most of those who engaged in the coup attempt have been in our government for years, and had Hillary won, their takeover would have most likely been complete, and with it every vestige of what they did would have been erased. So while it’s interesting that Europe is on the verge of becoming a Caliphate, it isn’t important to us. What is important is that we prosecute all those responsible here, and it would be my hope that some would face execution for their part in it.
Hey noob! Ted Cruz was not "fine!" You weren't on this forum when we hashed it out ad infinitum. Read The US Constitution and the minutes of the First and Second Congress. You will see clearly the intent of the Founders.
I’m not sure that was his mom.
There is no reason to indict him.
Grant the Egyptian request to extradite him for his part in the failed revolution, then act shocked and outraged when they hang him naked like Saddam.
I’m liking that idea!
Wasn’t McCain born on a US military base? That absolutely did make him a US citizen.
I’d like nothing better than you right about the earthquake and definitely look forward to the day!
Please add me to the list. Thanks!
Kalee
With all due respect, your grandfather understood the misapplied (US v Wong Kim Ark 1898)birthright issue not the presidential requirements. Obummer’s mom was an American born in Wichita, KS; that makes him the child of an American. Children born to US service members overseas are natural born American citizens, are they not? The debate here is what does NBC mean? You would have me believe that any anchor baby born in the US is now eligible to be president is preposterous. This turns the Article II requirement on its head. Under your interpretation, a NBC is anyone born on American soil or anyone born to an American, but that would eliminate the need for the word “natural”. All citizens would be eligible. The framers understood at that time to separate the two ideas of NBC and a citizen that swore allegiance to the new US of A. Otherwise Washington could never have been president because he was the natural born citizen of the British Empire.
Another wholesale rejecter of the Constitution.
They are simple to spot.
They lack both the intellect and the integrity to discuss the Constitution within the framework that the writers used. Few of them have ever read the minutes of the Constitutional Convention, and many lack the basic vocabulary to even discuss it.
Ask them to much as say the phrase “divided loyalty” and all they can choke out is “birther.”
You didn’t miss it. Trump just getting elected rocked the seismograph. I have a hunch what will follow will be a nasty foreshock for some of the seditious criminals close to the epicenter.
From my perspective, if I’m wrong, there will be virtually no faith, trust or confidence left in our justice system. Zip.
Obama might have been a Natural Born American Citizen wherever he was born since his mother was a citizen.
HOWEVER this does not to apply to a child born abroad to an underage mother, as was Dunham.
IF Obama was born abroad to an underage US citizen mother without a US citizen father, he is NOT a Natural Born Citizen of America.
You’ve been added to the Clarice Ping list.
His mother being a natural born citizen is not the requirement.
He has to be one.
He is not.
His foreign father made him a British subject and Kenyan national at birth and he even admitted it.
Thanks!
McCain never released his birth certificate.
We don’t really know if he was born in the Canal Zone or in Panama.
The resolution in the Senate specifies his TWO citizen parents as what made him a natural born citizen.
Merkel has not fully lost her grip yet, but she has been forced to play part of her hand by publicly revealing the development of ANTIFA resources within the United States.
She isn’t an eloquent or likable person, and has ridden to power on the back of the underground Eastern Block resources which she managed to preserve when the Berlin Wall fell.
I doubt that she will be ousted unless her health fails or someone assassinated her.
yes noob, read the constitution and watch two episodes of Veep until you agree with them.
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