He desparately needs a 2nd term to put everything into place - unfettered by polls and campaigning - and we will be HISTORY.
Timing is everything...our country is at stake.
Posted on 05/30/2011 7:40:28 AM PDT by Ordinary_American
The United States is in a Constitutional and political crisis without precedent.
What can ordinary Americans do when a large number of politicians are corrupt and an even larger portion of the national political leadership is complicit in a cover-up of that corruption?
Do we petition those leaders to investigate and punish themselves?
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The evident bewilderment displayed by Will is prima facie evidence of the depth of denial now prevalent in Washington, D.C.
It is an equivalent to writing an article after the Pearl Harbor attack entitled “The Japanese might not like us.”
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Having been born in Panama and not eligible to run for the Presidency, McCain obviously doesn’t recognize the Constitution either.
For me, the uncertainty about McCain’s ineligibility was resolved by the bogus, non-binding Senate Resolution 511, co-sponsored by Obama, which declared McCain a “natural born citizen” and, therefore, eligible for the Presidency.
The fact that Congress has no authority to do such a thing was apparently completely irrelevant to that majestic body. Maybe I’m a cynic, but it sounds to me like just another crooked, backroom deal.
If McCain and Obama both didn’t need the “cover”, why go through that elaborate Senate charade?
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
This is going to be good
Sorry I do not like MCLAIM but the facts are he was born on board a Navy Ship. A US Navy ship. That makes him a natural born US Citizen.
Both parents were US Citizens. . . . . . .
Ping for your attention.
If the people at the highest levels of government believe that they can, whenever they wish, commit law evasion, what can ordinary citizens do?
We can hope that the cover-up surrounding Obama’s alleged crimes begins to unravel and honest, courageous and patriotic leaders step forward to root out those complicit, eliminate the endemic corruption and guide the country back on the right course.
Otherwise, left with no alternatives, open dissent will grow and chaos will ensue.
They elected them. Hell Hitler was elected. This is a failure of the citizens.
According to his BC, he was born in Colon Hospital in Panama.
All good points...it’s time to ask yourself this question: “are people in the national media being paid off”?
Clearly, the national media are wall to wall liberals...but there seems to be more at play...Just who are getting rich being mouth pieces for the DNC?
Couldn’t agree with you more.
I have no idea how this got misinformation about McCain and other US citizens born outside the borders of the USA started, but suspect it was a ploy by the Obamanites to misdirect questions about his eligibility and it certainly seems to have gained a life of it's own.
I wonder how Fox viewership is doing. It’s been close to 2 months since we stopped watching ANYTHING on Fox. I even blocked the channel on all televisions just to take no chances. When they decide to stop being MSNBC then I’ll be back. Oh, they also have to get rid of Shep. He’s a deal breaker for Fox and I.
I can’t imagine them getting the liberals that despise them and always have. I also can’t imagine why any conservatives would continue to watch those Obongo a$$ kissers.
I get my news from the internet and newspapers and I haven’t had to hear the multiple personality bozo in chief’s voice for months. I love it. If I can’t hear his voice, it makes the usurpation of the WH by the Marxist Muslim Kenyan a little more tolerable.
Yeah, it’s kind of like the rapture.
McCain's father and grandfather were both four-star admirals in the United States Navy - the fact that he wasn't physically born in the U.S was precisely because his father was serving U.S interests. If he isn't eligible who, the hell is?
In my opinion, the current fraud dishonors our forefathers and all those who sacrificed to protect and defend this nation including those who are sacrificing today.
While watching this video, ponder the fraud and corruption that is today’s politician at every level of government in this country in our WH, Congress, and at the state and local level. We The People have been lied to by career hypocrite politicians. Ask yourself why no one demands an investigation and why no one comes forward with the truth to rid ourselves of the enemies within.
In my opinion, the current fraud dishonors our forefathers and all those who sacrificed to protect and defend this nation including those who are sacrificing today.
While watching this video, ponder the fraud and corruption that is today’s politician at every level of government in our WH, Congress, and at the state and local level. We The People have been lied to by corrupt career politicians. Ask yourself why no one demands an investigation and why no one comes forward with the truth to rid ourselves of the enemies within.
This guy should team up with WND and plaster that statement across the "Where's the birth certificate" signs.
The dumbing down of America.
We went the extra step, ditched all pay (dish, cable) “TV”.
Did we curl up into a fetal postion and blow away like dry leaves?
NO.
Do “Freepers”, conservatives and “republicans” have the will to divest TOTALLY from the MSM and their corporate sponsors?
I dare say, no.
Divestment would bring their entire leftist lying machine to it’s knees.
But people here have proven time and again they need their TV and slopburgers first, their nation second.
Was that a US military hospital? His father was active duty military, right? And his mother a US citizen. US bases in foreign countries are considered US territory. Even if the hospital was local, his father's posting to a US base seals the deal.
McCain was legally qualified to be President. In a practical sense he is not fit to be a dog catcher.
It was not a military hospital. It was built by Catholics a long time ago. Since no one seems to know what a “natural-born citizen” is, I guess it really doesn’t matter anyway. I’m still hoping Netanyahu will run. Then we would see who would have “standing” to say he couldn’t. I’d vote for him, though.
I’s like to see Sarah and Bibi get together for a chat.
Thank you.
Please cite your source for this post
I wish Frantzie could have posted other information. The financial analysis was good.
The posts about the media, while true, were predictable. Funny. This is a Frantzie moment.
My sister was born in Ramstein. I went to Base Schools untill 5th grade and we were taught what the Constitution said about this matter more then once.
She is a natural born citizen as you say.
Even if it was a local hospital, both McCain’s father and mother were US citizens, and his father was active duty military deployed overseas. Did the law as written foresee this? I don’t think so. IMHO I would still allow this. Still, McCain was not my real choice for 2008, but I held my nose and voted for him anyway, knowing that Barry Dunham would be a disaster.
Founder and Historian David Ramsay Defines a Natural Born Citizen in 1789
In defining an Article II “natural born Citizen,” it is important to find any authority from the Founding period who may inform us how the Founders and Framers themselves defined the clause. Who else but a highly respected historian from the Founding period itself would be highly persuasive in telling us how the Founders and Framers defined a “natural born Citizen. ” Such an important person is David Ramsay, who in 1789 wrote, A Dissertation on the Manners of Acquiring the Character and Privileges of a Citizen (1789), a very important and influential essay on defining a “natural born Citizen.”
David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 to May 8, 1815) was an American physician, patriot, and historian from South Carolina and a delegate from that state to the Continental Congress in 1782-1783 and 1785-1786. He was the Acting President of the United States in Congress Assembled. He was one of the American Revolution’s first major historians. A contemporary of Washington, Ramsay writes with the knowledge and insights one acquires only by being personally involved in the events of the Founding period. In 1785 he published History of the Revolution of South Carolina (two volumes), in 1789 History of the American Revolution (two volumes), in 1807 a Life of Washington, and in 1809 a History of South Carolina (two volumes). Ramsay “was a major intellectual figure in the early republic, known and respected in America and abroad for his medical and historical writings, especially for The History of the American Revolution (1789)…” Arthur H. Shaffer, Between Two Worlds: David Ramsay and the Politics of Slavery, J.S.Hist., Vol. L, No. 2 (May 1984). “During the progress of the Revolution, Doctor Ramsay collected materials for its history, and his great impartiality, his fine memory, and his acquaintance with many of the actors in the contest, eminently qualified him for the task….”
www.famousamericans.net/davidramsay. In 1965 Professor Page Smith of the University of California at Los Angeles published an extensive study of Ramsay's History of the American Revolution in which he stressed the advantage that Ramsay had because of being involved in the events of which he wrote and the wisdom he exercised in taking advantage of this opportunity. “The generosity of mind and spirit which marks his pages, his critical sense, his balanced judgment and compassion,'' Professor Smith concluded, “are gifts that were uniquely his own and that clearly entitle him to an honorable position in the front rank of American historians.”
In his 1789 article, Ramsay first explained who the “original citizens” were and then defined the “natural born citizens” as the children born in the country to citizen parents. He said concerning the children born after the declaration of independence, “[c]itizenship is the inheritance of the children of those who have taken part in the late revolution; but this is confined exclusively to the children of those who were themselves citizens….” Id. at 6. He added that “citizenship by inheritance belongs to none but the children of those Americans, who, having survived the declaration of independence, acquired that adventitious character in their own right, and transmitted it to their offspring….” Id. at 7. He continued that citizenship “as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776….” Id. at 6.
Here we have direct and convincing evidence of how a very influential Founder defined a “natural born citizen.” Given his position of influence and especially given that he was a highly respected historian, Ramsay would have had the contacts with other influential Founders and Framers and would have known how they too defined “natural born Citizen.” Ramsay, being of the Founding generation and being intimately involved in the events of the time would have known how the Founders and Framers defined a “natural born Citizen” and he told us that definition was one where the child was born in the country of citizen parents. In giving us this definition, it is clear that Ramsay did not follow the English common law but rather natural law, the law of nations, and Emer de Vattel, who also defined a “natural-born citizen” the same as did Ramsay in his highly acclaimed and influential, The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the Conduct and Affairs of Nations and Sovereigns, Section 212 (1758 French) (1759 English). We can reasonably assume that the other Founders and Framers would have defined a “natural born Citizen” the same way the Ramsay did, for being a meticulous historian he would have gotten his definition from the general consensus that existed at the time.
Ramsay’s article and explication are further evidence of the influence that Vattel had on the Founders in how they defined the new national citizenship. This article by Ramsay is one of the most important pieces of evidence recently found (provided to us by an anonymous source) which provides direct evidence on how the Founders and Framers defined a “natural born Citizen” and that there is little doubt that they defined one as a child born in the country to citizen parents. This time-honored definition of a "natural born Citizen" has been confirmed by subsequent United States Supreme Court and lower court cases such as The Venus, 12 U.S. (8 Cranch) 253, 289 (1814) (Marshall, C.J., concurring and dissenting for other reasons, cites Vattel and provides his definition of natural born citizens); Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) (Justice Daniels concurring took out of Vattel’s definition the reference to “fathers” and “father” and replaced it with “parents” and “person,” respectively); Shanks v. Dupont, 28 U.S. 242, 245 (1830) (same definition without citing Vattel); Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36, 21 L.Ed. 394, 16 Wall. 36 (1872) (in explaining the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment clause, “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” said that the clause “was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States;” Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884) (“the children of subjects of any foreign government born within the domain of that government, or the children born within the United States, of ambassadors or other public ministers of foreign nations” are not citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment because they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States); Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167-68 (1875) (same definition without citing Vattel); Ex parte Reynolds, 1879, 5 Dill., 394, 402 (same definition and cites Vattel); United States v. Ward, 42 F.320 (C.C.S.D.Cal. 1890) (same definition and cites Vattel); U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) (quoted from the same definition of “natural born Citizen” as did Minor v. Happersett); Rep. John Bingham (in the House on March 9, 1866, in commenting on the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which was the precursor to the Fourteenth Amendment: "[I] find no fault with the introductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen. . . . ” John A. Bingham, (R-Ohio) US Congressman, March 9, 1866 Cong. Globe, 39th, 1st Sess., 1291 (1866), Sec. 1992 of U.S. Revised Statutes (1866)).
The two-citizen-parent requirement would have followed from the common law that provided that a woman upon marriage took the citizenship of her husband. In other words, the Framers required both (1) birth on United States soil (or its equivalent) and (2) birth to two United States citizen parents as necessary conditions of being granted that special status which under our Constitution only the President and Commander in Chief of the Military (and also the Vice President under the Twelfth Amendment) must have at the time of his or her birth. Given the necessary conditions that must be satisfied to be granted the status, all "natural born Citizens" are "Citizens of the United States" but not all "Citizens of the United States" are "natural born Citizens." It was only through both parents being citizens that the child was born with unity of citizenship and allegiance to the United States which the Framers required the President and Commander in Chief to have.
Obama fails to meet this “natural born Citizen” eligibility test because when he was born in 1961 (wherever that may be), he was not born to a United States citizen mother and father. At his birth, his mother was a United States citizen. But under the British Nationality Act 1948, his father, who was born in the British colony of Kenya, was born a Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (CUKC) which by descent made Obama himself a CUKC. Prior to Obama’s birth, Obama’s father neither intended to nor did he become a United States citizen. Being temporarily in the United States only for purpose of study and with the intent to return to Kenya, his father did not intend to nor did he even become a legal resident or immigrant to the United States.
Obama may be a plain born “citizen of the United States” under the 14th Amendment or a Congressional Act (if he was born in Hawaii). But as we can see from David Ramsay’s clear presentation, citizenship “as a natural right, belongs to none but those who have been born of citizens since the 4th of July, 1776….” Id. at 6. Hence, Obama is not an Article II "natural born Citizen," for upon Obama's birth his father was a British subject and Obama himself by descent was also the same. Hence, Obama was born subject to a foreign power. Obama lacks the birth status of natural sole and absolute allegiance and loyalty to the United States which only the President and Commander in Chief of the Military and Vice President must have at the time of birth. Being born subject to a foreign power, he lacks Unity of Citizenship and Allegiance to the United States from the time of birth which assures that required degree of natural sole and absolute birth allegiance and loyalty to the United States, a trait that is constitutionally indispensable in a President and Commander in Chief of the Military. Like a naturalized citizen, who despite taking an oath later in life to having sole allegiance to the United States cannot be President because of being born subject to a foreign power, Obama too cannot be President.
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
April 2, 2010
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/
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Rep. John A. Bingham, who later became the chief architect of the 14th Amendment’s first section.
In the United States House on March 9, 1866
commenting upon Section 1992 of the Civil Rights Act, said that the Act was
“simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution,
that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself,
a natural born citizen”.
Rep. Bingham said “parents.” He did not say “one parent” or “a mother or father.”
The most absolutely favorite activity of the MSM is to build a leader to prodigious heights and then cut the foundation out from under him. The media take special glee in destroying pantheons of virtue and prestige.
Mark my words, Obama’s time will come. When the media realize that their vaunted popularity is substantially damaged by their current love affair with the One they will abandon him, shocked that they were duped, and ready to string him up as a loser and a fraud.
The MSM will reveal, as if for the first time, all the tawdry criminal acts we have been screaming about. They will drive him out of office when it becomes apparent that he is a lost cause. All they need is another Marxist to fondle. They are, after all, objective and aloof.
He was not born on board a Navy ship.
Please. He was born in a hospital in Colon, Panama. I’m sure someone will come up with a source shortly.
Looks interesting.
I believe anyone born on foreign soil to American-born parents who were in the military and stationed out of country because of military assignment should be considered a NBC. However, what I believe doesn’t hold a lot of legal weight. We need a definitive answer by someone above my pay grade.
I voted for McCain only because Sarah Palin was his running mate. Hopefully this time the Republicans can give us a real conservative who can beat Obama.
Amen, Dear ExTexasRedhead.
The lamestream media have gone far beyond a love affair with barry the bastard. They worship him, showing that in their minds he can do no wrong. We passed the time for guillotine solutions months ago. I have no idea what it will take now to stop this demonic worship of this lying scumbag in the chief executive office.
McCain was not born on a military base. He is not a natural born citizen no matter how much people want him to be.
Why are you mixing "non-citizen" and "non-Natural Born Citizen" up? No one is saying McCain isn't a citizen. Sheesh.
Absolutely correct. They are natural born US Citizens as they are not recognized by the country where the family is stationed. They are placed on Mom’s passport immediately as US citizens. Look it up. I know lots of people in this situation and it is pretty well established in law. Only people looking to cover up or divert attention would even bring it up.
My nephew was born here in Thailand. His father is an American citizen born in Minnesota and his mother (my sister-in-law) is a naturalized US citizen. My nephew became an American citizen the second he was born. His passports states it clearly. He is a natural born US citizen and is eligible to be President. He cannot be a Thai citizen.
No, he wasn't. But agree with you otherwise.
McCain was declared to be a citizen by law , not by nature. The article questions Congress's authority to pass laws against nature.
Please. He was born in a hospital in Colon, Panama.
Naaa ... he was born on a submarine!
Hello, ExTexasRedhead. I’m from Longview.
The reason people do not demand an investigation into this is called normalcy bias.
Most people who have not experienced a horrible thing like a tornado or the holocaust just don’t let themselves imagine it can happen to them. Germany elected an evil racist community organizer to power just like America did. The mostly good ordinary German citizens could not fathom that Martin Luther’s holy Germany could do something that bad.
Most Americans still consider this a “Christian” nation, and you do not offend people by discussing “politics and religion”. They think the media is “news”, and the truth about how evil our leaders are as “right wing propaganda”.
Josef Goebbles would be proud of the way lies are accepted for news in this country. The similarity between America today and Germany in the 1930’s is staggering, but it’s pretty much lost on most of the the foolish voting sheeple.
Find the Fake “American” :
So is Obama eligible to be president?
So tell me Hugo, how do I go about getting this "president for life" thing in place?
It is up to us to wake up the Useful Idiots and to demand an investigation into the current Regime occupying our White House. The idiocy and gullibility of the Useful Idiots, like many in Germany, will destroy us and our children and grandchildren’s future. We The People must expose the enemies within, make their names known, and ensure they are prosecuted and/or voted out of office. We also have to expose and stop voter fraud!
If we disqualify citizens from serving as president because their parents were serving in foreign billets while in the service of the country, then something is wrong.
They elected them. Hell Hitler was elected. This is a failure of the citizens.
Absolutely. But as other comments here state it is the Media who have windowed the world so thoroughly that even those half conscious cannot see anywhere beyond the Left. The Matrix.
Human Dignity, Freedom, Personal Responsibility, Conservatism, Self-honesty, Individual Consciousness, whatever one may call it (and it's all the same thing) is fighting an enemy so deep and well funded that it's going to require profound examination to counter. And in these Dark Ages I see few with the courage or will, certainly not in DC.
Why is Jay Rockefeller Senator in West Virginia? Or, Hillary Clinton past Senator in New York? Or, Bloomberg Mayor of NYC? Or, Boxer and Feinstein Senators of CA? Or, Felipe Calderon given a jingoistic soapbox in front of the US Congress? Or, Kagan, who has never been a judge, on the Supreme Court? Or, Barack Obama recipient of by far the largest campaign funding in world history, much of it foreign?
Johnny Suntrade
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