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BHO resisted giving up his personal Blackberry upon taking office. He is plenty tech savvy. There’s no way he didn’t realize Hillary’s email was not a .gov address.

Should Anwar al-Awlaki have been eligible to run for President?

Anwar al-Awlaki was born in 1971 to Yemeni citizens in Las Cruces, New Mexico. US Intelligence reports that, from the age of seven, al-Awlaki was raised abroad, becoming an enemy of America, indoctrinated by the highest powers of Al-Qaida and studying under the same teachers as Osama bin Laden. He eventually influenced various terrorists such as the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, and helped plan the thwarted attack of the “Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Al- Awlaki’s phone number was found among the contact information of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the man known as “the 20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks.

Those who suggest that there is no distinction between “citizen” and “Natural Born Citizen” would have us believe and accept that such a person might have been eligible to run for President of the US simply because he was born in America. According to defenders of the alleged eligibility of Barack Obama (or Marco Rubio, or Bobby Jindal), any person born on US soil to one or more alien citizens could be the leader of the free world. At some point, according to that path of logic, this should have included Anwar al-Awlaki.

So, to say that every child born in America is a natural born citizen is also to say that any foreign interest whose child was born in the US could be allowed to raise that child abroad as an enemy of the US and return that child to this country in time to meet the Constitution’s 14-year residency requirement for President. Considering that Islam has been at war with itself and the rest of the world at least since the death of Muhammad almost 1400 years ago, it takes very little imagination to project how a powerful enemy of the US might take the necessary 35 years and other resources to groom a “Manchurian Candidate” for the US Presidency.

If we accept the premise that every person born in the US is a natural born citizen, we allow the establishment of a flawed precedent permitting a family such as that of Anwar al-Awlaki (or a communist government, or a Mexican drug cartel, etc.) to gain control of our country through an orchestrated, long-term attack on the Presidency. This is precisely what the Framers were trying to prevent with the natural born citizen requirement.

A note from John Jay to George Washington explains to us why the Framer’s included the natural born citizen requirement for POTUS. It was not, as some would have us believe, to discriminate against any particular race or to keep white men in power. Jay stated outright that the goal was “to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government.”

This is not a proscription against any ethnic heritage. It was the Framer’s best effort, within the framework of a free society, to restrict the trust of our highest office only to persons with the greatest likelihood of being reared with an abiding love of American values. The Constitution itself argues against the assertion that every child born in America is also a natural born citizen.

Constitutional eligibility requirements for members of the House and Senate include that they be “citizens,” with progressively tighter restrictions on length of residency for Senators and the President. Following that same pattern of progressively increased restrictions, the Constitution also requires that the President must be, not just a citizen, but a “natural born Citizen.”

The natural born citizen requirement is not an incidental flourish of language, but a national security provision of the supreme law of our land. It is not a “big tent” invitation but an intentionally restrictive, but not racist, prohibition. It serves as a foundation on which to permanently secure and preserve the rights and freedoms which are the heritage of all Americans. It’s purpose is to ensure, to the greatest possible extent, that every American President has sole allegiance to the USA by virtue of a childhood steeped in the richness of American culture, anchored in a respect for freedom, emboldened by the spirit of independence and innovation, and committed to the continuation of the noble experiment of a republic created and protected by free men and women and their progeny.

Uhm, isn’t there some law(s) against defending a declared state sponsor of terrorism against one of our strongest allies?

Thank you. That is exactly what I want our Congress &/or SCOTUS to do - definitively and finally. It is their job, not mine.

Anyone who is literate can see the distinction in Article II, Section 1, not just an attorney. If you were born before ratification of the Constitution you must be a Citizen to be President. After that, you must be a natural born Citizen.

See here:

“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...”

I began advocating to abolish the IRS in 1976 (replace income tax with nat’l sales tax) and Cruz has been pretty forthright about supporting that, so I would love to support Cruz for President, but I cannot because I believe in the Constitution.

The Constitution distinguishes between Citizen and natural born Citizen, in the very eligibility requirements for POTUS in Article II, Section 1. This is a fundamental national security provision of the highest law in the land and there is no provision for ignoring the distinction.

Ted Cruz is well aware of this distinction and does not claim to be a NBC. He passively allows low-information voters to recognize the difference - or not. This tactic worked fine for Obama.

Every US President born after Ratification (a salient point; see Art. II, Sec. 1) was born in the US to two citizen parents, except for two:

1. Chester A. Arthur, who lied about his citizenship status and burned his vital records just prior to his death.

2. Barack Hussien Obama, whose father was not a US citizen and who claimed for at least 16 years that he was born in Kenya until two months after he launched his 2008 POTUS campaign.

Now Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio feel at liberty to further erode the law of the land.

Is there no statesman willing to honor their oath of office to defend the US Constitution?

Anwar al-Awlaki was born in 1971 to Yemeni citizens in Las Cruces, New Mexico. US Intelligence reports that, from the age of seven, al-Awlaki was raised abroad, becoming an enemy of America, indoctrinated by the highest powers of Al-Qaida and studying under the same teachers as Osama bin Laden. He eventually influenced various terrorists such as the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan, and helped plan the thwarted attack of the “Underwear Bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Al-Awlaki’s phone number was found among the contact information of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the man known as “the 20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks.

Those who suggest that there is no distinction between “citizen” and “Natural Born Citizen” would have us believe and accept that such a person might have been eligible to run for President of the US simply because he was born in America. According to defenders of the alleged eligibility of Barack Obama (or Marco Rubio, or Bobby Jindal), any person born on US soil to one or more alien citizens could be the leader of the free world. At some point, according to that path of logic, this should have included Anwar al-Awlaki.

So, to say that every person born a US citizen is also a natural born citizen is also to say that any foreign interest whose child was born in the US could be allowed to raise that child abroad as an enemy of the US and return that child to this country in time to meet the Constitution’s 14-year residency requirement for President.

The Constitution distinguishes between Citizen and natural born Citizen, in the very eligibility requirements for POTUS in Article II, Section 1. This is a fundamental national security provision of the highest law in the land and there is no provision for ignoring the distinction.

Ted Cruz is well aware of this distinction and does not claim to be a NBC. He passively allows low-information voters to recognize the difference - or not. This tactic worked fine for Obama.

Every US President born after Ratification (a salient point; see Art. II, Sec. 1) was born in the US to two citizen parents, except for two:

1. Chester A. Arthur, who lied about his citizenship status and burned his vital records just prior to his death.

2. Barack Hussien Obama, who claimed for at least 16 years that he was born in Kenya until two months after he launched his 2008 POTUS campaign.

Now Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio feel at liberty to further erode the law of the land. Is there no statesman willing to honor their oath of office to defend the US Constitution?

The only thing ObamaCare does successfully is impose socialism. You can’t keep your doctor, you can’t keep your policy, it won’t save most families $2,500 per year, and Obama has done by edict what was Ted Cruz was vilified for. Plus, the CBO says that, even if it were implemented as the law was written, there would still be 30 million Americans without insurance after ten years.

Absent a revolution, we’re hosed.

http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/guests/s_678974.html

• The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling?

• If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally healthy,” they are not welcome.

• Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by 10 years’ imprisonment.

• Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations.

• A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.

and email: michael@mshrimpton.co.uk

Shrimpton’s blog:
http://theshrimptonreport.blogspot.com/

The “natural born citizen” eligibility requirement for POTUS is a national security provision of the Constitution and its has been violated.

The Constitution does not define NBC, but it distinguishes between NBC and citizen, so the two statuses cannot be the same and the Framer’s original intent remains in force.

Logically, an NBC can be nothing else - born that way - and can only be an NBC because no laws of man make him (or her) anything else. That is, an NBC is born in the country to parents who are both citizens - there’s nothing else he/she could be. Consequently, Obama, McCain, Jindal, Rubio, and (unfortunately) Cruz are all ineligible to be POTUS.

If Ted Cruz is more interested in usurping the Presidency (from the current usurper) than in upholding the Constitution, then he is part of the problem.

Legislators on both sides of the aisle must (and soon will) understand that this country requires a definition for “natural born citizen.” Hopefully, they are about to be forced to reckon with that stark reality.

The Constitution does not define NBC, but it DOES distinguish between “citizen” and NBC and that distinction has never been legally modified or neutralized so the Framer’s original intent remains in force, despite that the entire USG has dishonored the oath of office.

Cruz is not eligible to be POTUS - by a long shot - and neither is McCain, Rubio, nor Jindal.

If there is any hope for our country, this spring will mark Obama’s undoing. Once the fertilizer hits the fan everyone who helped him usurp the Presidency should be held accountable for ravaging the republic for the sake of avoiding being called a “racist” by an illegal alien.

Ask Wayne Root if his student ID had a barcode. He was in the same curriculum, same year as Obama - and never heard of Obama before he ran for President.

Not only do the background pattern lines not bend with the paper, how does that background persist into the thin air beyond the folds of the binding if there is no computer enhancement of this alleged document?

McCain getting his first taste of kissing Obama’s @$$.

I got thru to Hannity's call screener today. I asked if Hannity could answer a question that no elected official seems to want to touch. I asked my question. "I'll pass that along." Hannity was too busy making Royal baby announcements and Weiner jokes to consider this issue today.

Thank you, freedomfiter2 and tet68, for at least attempting to answer my question, however obliquely and unsatisfactorily.

What can Americans do when their gov’t seems to be up to their necks in treason?

I can't get a straight answer from my Senators or House Representative.

How can the US Gov't send military aid and equipment to Syrian rebels - who are known to be allied with Al Qaida - without committing treason?