There you go again, acting like a liberal. How dare you tell me to stop? And, you call me a liar to boot?
But since you’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’, let me oblige.
First, a resolution has no force in law. You probably didn’t know that.
But, beyond that, loudmouth Leahy actually says that Barack Obama is ineligible for the office of POTUS — read it yourself:
During the bill’s hearing that Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the following statement:
“Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” said Leahy. “I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate.”
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.
“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied.
“That is mine, too,” said Leahy.
What’s interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary, confirms that a “natural born” citizen is the child of American citizen parents.
Parents — that’s two. That’s BOTH parents.
Every time the words, “citizen” and “parent,” are used by Sen. Leahy and Sec. Chertoff, the plural case, “citizens” and “parents,” is used. The plural case is the operative case.
It is Sen. Leahy’s opinion — his own recorded words, in a formal Senate Resolution and on his U. S. Senate website — that Barack Obama is not a “natural born” citizen, and therefore not eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief, regardless of his birthplace.
Obama had one American parent —singular — his mother. His father was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain.
Obama, himself, “at birth,” was a citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain — he says so on his own campaign website. This fact introduces the concept of “divided loyalties,” — the reason the founders created the eligibility requirement in the first place — a fact that further underlines Obama’s ineligibility.
The source of this information is Sen. Leahy’s own website. The webpage contains a statement about the resolution; the resolution, itself; the Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.); and an excerpt of Sec. Chertoff’s testimony.
The plural word “parents” is used four times. When used to identify the parents, the word “citizens” is used five times. That’s nine times that Sen. Leahy, on his own website describes the eligibility requirement. There is NO PLACE in any of these four documents where the singular case of “parent” or “citizen” is used.
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/041008c.html
Oh, by the way, Obama signed the resolution, so he agrees that he doesn’t meet the requirements of Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the US Constitution — I kind of like the irony in that.
Now, Obot, I await the next opportunity to set you straight.
Two parents who are U.S. citizens is a requirement only when born outside the United States, like McCain was.
I suggest you read the citizenship statute. You can see it here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html.
I thought none of it was enforceable without spraying vodka from your mouth over a dead chicken and sprinklin’ with some fairy dust.
Am I wrong? /S
You bruiser.