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Millions of people call Obama’s “progress”, the tyranny of Marxism, and some even treason Relinquishing power when you regard yourself as King of the World and after you’ve blown your way through $85-million vacationing on taxpayers’ money is not in the reality of out going President Barack Hussein Obama. Obama saw himself as the perpetual president; president for life starting with a third term via the supposed-to-be elected Hillary Clinton.

The Constitution specifies that in addition to being "natural born," the president must be 35 years old and with a minimum 14-year residency in the country. The same applies to the vice president. Nickles's legislation, inspired by an aide who adopted two children from Eastern Europe, does not address immigrants' right to hold America's highest office. But his colleague Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, last year introduced a constitutional amendment to loosen the prohibition on foreign-born citizens serving as president. The Constitution's framers chose the term "natural born" not only to highlight the need...

The false allegation that President Barack Obama was born in another country is more than a fact-free hit job. Marked by accusations and backstabbing, it's the story of how a small but intense movement called "birthers" rose from a handful of people prone to seeing conspiracies, aided by the Internet, magnified without evidence by eager radio and cable TV hosts, and eventually ratified by a small group of Republican politicians working to keep the story alive on the floors of Congress and the campaign trails of the Midwest. It's a powerful story about what experts call political paranoia over a...