If anyone is afraid then it is you. It is you who know deep down that Obama would not have been sworn in as president if he did not fully meet all criteria. And so, hoping against hope, you double down on the bet, throwing the remaining strands of your dignity and credibility onto the table, praying for a different outcome. But all you're doing is buying a little more time and ensuring more personal anguish with the preposterously bad hand that you are holding. Look around. No one is folding. And if you listen closely enough, you will hear your own cards quietly laughing at you. It's over. You lost. Go home and feed your cat.
The Emperor Has No Birth Certificate Monday, April 6, 2009 5:26 PM By: Barry Farber Article Font Size John Dean, a President Nixon staffer as Watergate was about to unfold, told his boss, "There is a cancer on your presidency." Would any member of President Obama's staff dare tell him any such thing today? Watergate was Nixon's 800-pound gorilla everybody talked about, who sat there until he broke the sofa. The location of Obama's birth is an 800-pound gorilla that gets fatter every day and nobody â at least nobody in major media â likes to admit its existence. There's never been a coming-together of factors resembling this one in America's entire political history. At no point until now has the birthplace of a president been anything more than a local chamber-of-commerce item of pride (where I come, from they're still arguing whether President James Polk was born in Tennessee or North Carolina!). All of a sudden the question of President Obama's birth place threatens to undermine his very eligibility to serve, and to toss America into a constitutional crisis of unfathomable proportions. In-depth journalism here would instinctively immerse itself in the growing blizzard of lawsuits launched by activists seeking "standing" (Do you have the right to question the president's eligibility to serve?) and writs of certiorari (Hey, Court! Will you please hear this case?). In-depth journalism would detail how many and who in which states are making the pile of challenges zoom. In-depth journalism would distinguish between the challenges to President Obama's legitimacy on grounds of his alleged birth in Kenya versus his alleged status as a British subject by virtue of his father's citizenship. That's what in-depth journalism would do. This may sound strange, but I believe this is a time for simple â even superficial â journalism. Let's keep the flight deck as uncluttered as possible and stick to what we all know for sure. The Constitution insists that the president be a natural-born American. We have the president's paternal grandmother claiming she was present at his birth in Kenya, and we have a TV talk host named Keith Olbermann who tells those who say things like that to put the Reynolds Wrap back on their heads. We have no proof that Grandma was there or that Obama doubters like to wear Reynolds Wrap on their heads. We know a few facts for certain. And our knowledge is disturbing. We know that President Obama is either covering up the truth of his birthplace or, and this is an Olympic stretch, refusing to offer proof because of some unstated "principle." I recall many college post-midnight bull-sessions debating whether taking the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination was really anything but an admission of guilt bathed in a hoped-for constitutional respectability. The "admission of guilt" side won every time. The "grandmother-was-there" story really began before the election. The scenario goes as follows: His mother wanted to fly from Kenya to Hawaii so she could give birth in Hawaii, but she was too pregnant to fly. She therefore gave birth in Kenya and later had Barack registered in Hawaii. We've not been allowed to see the president's birth certificate. Instead we've been offered something nobody ever heard of called a "certificate of live birth" from the state of Hawaii. If all this culminates in the revelation that Barack Obama is not, in fact, eligible to serve as president of the USA, this will go down as his team's biggest mistake. The American people may not be all we used to be, but we're not yet ready to roll over and smile at the sight of a confection designed to masquerade as a birth certificate while we're being angrily denied a look at the real thing. Do a little thought-experiment. Let's talk "probably." If the president were unjustly accused of being ineligible to serve and the chorus became nationally audible, what would he probably do? Probably what would happen would be the press secretary would talk to a subordinate five layers down and instruct him to talk to a subordinate another five layers down (the coffee-fetching level) and instruct him to have copies of the president's birth certificate â nothing else, please â printed and made available at the next White House news conference. That's a mosquito swat too small to make anybody's memoirs. Thatâs quite far from what's happening. We're getting nothing but angry cries of "garbage" from the administration whenever anybody dares hint at a problem or even a question. And the entire press corps seems to be in an intimidation hammerlock. Look how successfully the administration has handled this. Not only is the birth certificate issue taboo but also weâre not allowed to see Obama's applications to Columbia and Harvard. Such forms may have inconvenient answers to questions like, "Citizenship?â "Place of birth?" etc. Yet none of the working reporters dares say anything about any of this. And if one ever did, he would be pounced upon and devoured, not by the administration piranhas, but by their own brother and sister journalists. How can the White House press corps refrain from any such questioning and then look at their faces in a mirror while shaving or applying mascara? Disclosure: I don't care where an American president was born. I do care about the Constitution. A businessman who keep two sets of books goes to jail. It's worse when a country lists which laws we must obey and which we're free to ignore. In the fairy tale, a 6-year-old boy brought the regime down by saying, "The emperor has no clothes!" Trouble is, they don't allow 6-year-olds in White House news conferences. © 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
I thought they might actually be on to something there until I saw the Newsmax copyright. Funny stuff!
John Jay, president of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779, and who later became the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, wrote the following in a letter dated July 25, 1787, to George Washington, presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention and later first president of the United States. Note: The underlining of the word "born" was in the original: "Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural <u>born</u> Citizen."
Anyone who writes articles like that should be shot. Let's take this silly point of view and let's assume Obama was not born in USA(I DO NOT CONCEDE THIS POINT). a)So what? b)Nobody is going to do anything about it Supreme court is not full of morons. They know that if you try to remove Obama from office you are basically guaranteeing a civil war over a silly thing. Why is that a silly thing? Because if born today given the same circumstances Obama would be an automatic citizen because you acquire citizenship even with one parent who is a US citizen when you satisfy certain requirements (his mother would have no problem doing that) "Through birth abroad to one United States citizen For persons born on or after November 14, 1986, a person is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true:[4] 1. One of the person's parents was a U.S. citizen when the person in question was born; 2. The citizen parent lived at least 5 years in the United States before his or her child's birth; 3. A minimum of 2 of these 5 years in the United States were after the citizen parent's 14th birthday. " If there was a "revelation" Supreme Court or Congress would simply apply the current laws retroactively. Anybody who continues to promote Obama's birth certificate issue is a fucking degenerate.
So, the First Amenment is 'O.K.' with you - as long as you agree with the particular form of expression. Otherwise, you advocate assassination as an appropriate response to disagreeable rhetoric? Geeez. - Spydertrader