Cowardly, pro-Obama judges a particular disgrace on this day

Coach is Right ^ | 5/28/2012 | Doug Book

[Oldpuppymax]

“When men have died horrible deaths on foreign soil to protect the Constitution, can any man be forgiven when he ignores the Constitution to save his career?” (1)

In late January, Liberty Legal Foundation lead attorney Van Irion argued before Georgia Administrative Judge Michael Malihi that Barack Obama was constitutionally ineligible to hold the office of president because he did NOT satisfy the Article II requirement of being a “natural born citizen” of the United States. Irion’s argument was based on precedent derived from an 1875 Supreme Court ruling which stated:

“The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.” (2)

On February 3rd, Judge Malihi ignored this precedent of the 1875 court along with the language of the Constitution itself, claiming...

[Tex-Con-Man]

No...the disgrace is using Memorial Day as an excuse to promote birtherism. Reprehensible.

[EEGator]

I concur.

[Fido969]

dumb@ss.

[SvenMagnussen]

Obama naturalized as a US Citizen in 1983. His Certificate of Naturalization is on file with US Department of Homeland Security.

[SvenMagnussen]

Obama naturalized as a US Citizen in 1983. His Certificate of Naturalization is on file with US Department of Homeland Security.

[fr_freak]

No...the disgrace is using Memorial Day as an excuse to promote birtherism. Reprehensible.

Could not disagree with you more. Memorial Day is the day to remember those who died defending this country. You can do that by firing up your BBQ, drinking beer, and being fat dumb and lazy, or you can spend a few minutes at least thinking about the disintegration of our Constitution. Quite frankly, the people who would rather continue with their bread and circuses and ignore potential violations of our Constitution because its just too uncool and inconvenient are effectively spitting on the graves of people who died for this country.

[EEGator]

False dichotomy. There are other options between fat, dumb, and drunk or birtherism.

[fr_freak]

False dichotomy. There are other options between fat, dumb, and drunk or birtherism.

Really? Like what? What are you doing today that is so much better for honoring Memorial Day than discussing a possible blatant violation of the Constitution?

[SaraJohnson]

Yeah!!! Memorial day has nothing to do with Americans dying to defend and protect the constitution from foreign and domestic enemies and besides, the constitution means whatever the afterbirthers say it means!

Get outta here with that constituion stuff. This is Memorial day! ;)

[Tex-Con-Man]

...and birthers like to ignore the part of the Constitution that clearly establishes the rules to remove a President from office. (”He was never President” argument to follow.)

[EEGator]

“False dichotomy. There are other options between fat, dumb, and drunk or birtherism.”

“Really? Like what?...”

How about personal reflection, remembering a lost friend or family member, watch a documentary on or troops, read a book about our troops, volunteer at the VA, talk to a vet, etc...?

[MHGinTN]

Apparently, the beer came hours before the BBQ and now posting at FR. Try to ignore the agenda driven ...

[fr_freak]

How about personal reflection, remembering a lost friend or family member, watch a documentary on or troops, read a book about our troops, volunteer at the VA, talk to a vet, etc...?

Those are all great things. Another great thing to do is to think about our responsibility as custodians of the country they fought for, especially on a political activist website. I'm a combat vet, and if I had died in battle, I'd rather have people show some concern about our Constitution being used as toilet paper than worrying about the details of how I got shot.

[EEGator]

There are 364 other days for that.(365 this year) One day off won’t hurt.
Thanks for your service.

[fr_freak]

...and birthers like to ignore the part of the Constitution that clearly establishes the rules to remove a President from office. (”He was never President” argument to follow.)

Really? "Birthers"? Every single person who wants Obama's eligibility verified likes to ignore the Constitution? Or is it just that one time you got into an argument with one guy who pissed you off, and now you run around talking like you're an expert on all "birthers"? I'll tell you what birthers want first and foremost: the truth. How about we get that for a change? Once it's out in the open, then we can worry about the next step, instead of wringing our hands and crying "Oh, we should ignore this whole issue because it would be so haaaaard to actually remove Obama from office."

[thecodont]

I'll tell you what birthers want first and foremost: the truth.

That's right!

[Fantasywriter]

Well said, fr_freak, and thank you for your service.

If you have the time and inclination, check out this post by fireman. It nails the issue like few posts ever have, imho:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2888545/posts?page=46#46

[fr_freak]

That was a good. Thanks for the link.

[Fantasywriter]

You’re very welcome. It is so galling on this day of remembrance to have a man in the Oval Office who has no idea what Memorial Day means to America. (As you recall, he famously saw ghosts in the audience a couple of years back on this very day.) I hope, pray and believe this is the last Memorial Day we will have to endure the man. I wish him no harm; it’s just that it’s so unseemly to have this sneering US military hater pontificating over such a hallowed day.