This should put an end to all of this unwarranted speculation:
‘President-elect Barak Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961, so he is a natural born citizen.’
That is a big leap of faith for the Library of Congress to make. Let me guess they go the information from Factcheck.org.
Leo’s case calls into question both McCain and obama’s natural born status. The foundation of the case is that obama is a self declared dual citizen of US and GB and this makes him ineligible.
They are also dead wrong about the federal government not bearing the responsibility to assure that presidential candidates ascribe to Article 2.
The Constitution designates powers, limitations, and responsibilites of government, chiefly federal government. Nothing in it addresses political parties (which were considered an evil to be avoided, at our nation’s founding).
I believe the lower court in the Berg case ruled that it was Congress's responsibility to implement a vetting process if they wanted one. And that it was Congress's responsiblity to ceritify the election and was capable of vetting the candidates then.
It's happened because of neglect. They never put a control in place to make sure a candidate was elligible because inelligible candidates have never come so close before.
However, the problem is that with democrats in charge of the congress, they aren't likely to put a control in place or vetthe candidates until after Obama leaves office.
That's why the court needs to intervene.
His speech in Germany with his references to ‘citizens of the world’ seems to have significant meaning in Barack Obama’s case.
1. As his website acknowledges - at birth he was a British citizen as his father was Kenyan and since their law says that the father confers citizenship.
2. When Kenya became independent, he automatically became Kenyan as that was the terms of independence. (however at age 21, that may have been voided if he failed to confirm it)
3. He became Indonesian, either through adoption or through acclaiming citizenship as indicated in his school registration and use of his step-father’s name, and probably Indonesian passport.
4. He is American in that his birth was registered in Hawaii and his mother was American (except she was technically, according to the law at the time, not old enough to pass that citizenship to him).
The founding fathers specifically addressed the situation by distinguishing ‘natural born’ and grandfathered their status (having been mainly British subjects before the Constitution) the intent of which was to not have a President who had divided loyalties.
So, here we are today - the Constitution is relegated to a novelty imprint on toilet paper, and if that is the case, the President of the United States has no authority, the Congress and the Supreme Court likewise lack all authority, since that same Constitution is what empowers them. What a fine can of worms we have here - guess we should all go fishing and ‘hope’ it will all go away and that the ‘change’ doesn’t matter.
Really? Prove it.
This came from the Library of Congress! It’s absolutely pathetic their standard has been so lowered. No mention that Obama’s mother was not old enough at the time of his birth to bestow citizenship upon him. No mention that Obama admittedly held dual citizenship as a British subject at birth through his father. Tragic.
Mistake #1: John McCain was not born in the Canal Zone.
Mistake #2: John McCain was born in 1936.
This should put an end to all of this unwarranted speculation:
And how does that person, that librarian of Congress, know that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii? How would anyone know that fact? It’s probably true, but should we not know it upon the basis of actual documentation?
It is not the job of the Legislative branch (Congress), the Executive Branch (President and the administrative agencies), or the Judicial Branch (Courts) to vet political candidates. It is the job of the Republican National Committee (RNC), the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and other party organizations to vet the candidates that represent their parties. None of these committees are government affiliated organizations; they are private.