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Unbelievable - RINO Senator Mel Martinez responds to the Citizenship question
Email from Senator Martinez | 12/1/2008 | Jeffo

Posted on 12/01/2008 12:52:16 PM PST by jeffo

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Mel Martinez responds to my letter about Obama Qualifications - "The voters have made clear their view that Mr. Obama meets the qualifications to hold the office of President." - OMG
1 posted on 12/01/2008 12:52:16 PM PST by jeffo
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To: jeffo

Great Lord Almighty! These people think we’re idiots!


2 posted on 12/01/2008 12:54:53 PM PST by Edgar3 ("Is there a Patriot in the house?")
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To: jeffo

I hear a loud sucking sound.


3 posted on 12/01/2008 12:54:54 PM PST by BubbaBasher (www.HypocriteLibs.org - Tracking the Slandering Liars in the MSM)
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To: jeffo

What a freakin idiot.


4 posted on 12/01/2008 12:54:57 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Edgar3
Great Lord Almighty! These people think we’re idiots!

Pretty much.

5 posted on 12/01/2008 12:55:17 PM PST by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: BubbaBasher

Yes. Martinez on his kneepads for Obama


6 posted on 12/01/2008 12:55:40 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: jeffo

The voters do not decide Obama is eligble! Mel Martinez is an a*shat. My guess is he, Linday Graham and McCain will be pushing with O for a amnesty in January. The Senate is largely made up of criminals.


7 posted on 12/01/2008 12:56:12 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: jeffo

Got the exact same response from my RINO rep. Must be a form letter.

Is the fix in?


8 posted on 12/01/2008 12:56:21 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: jeffo

I suspect thisis going to be the final answer: “Screw the Constitution, we want him, damnit!”

This can lead to serious consequences of a civil war.


9 posted on 12/01/2008 12:56:25 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: STARWISE; LucyT; Calpernia

The GOPs best and brightest, that Mr. Martinez.


10 posted on 12/01/2008 12:56:29 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: autumnraine

They are sure as hell trying to put the fix in. What worthless dumbasses


11 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:20 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: jeffo
Unbelievable.

Rep. Martinez, documented proof decides if a person is a citizen...not the whimsical nature of public opinion.

You sir, are no defender of the constitution and your reply stinks of political correctness and a desire to avoid the hard work of actually defending that sacred document.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING

12 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:23 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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"The District Court dismissed Mr. Berg's suit and held that the question of Obama's citizenship is not a matter for a court to decide. The court further noted that voters, not courts, should decide whether a particular presidential candidate is qualified to hold office. " This statement scares the dickens out of me.
13 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:34 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Edgar3

“Great Lord Almighty! These people think we’re idiots”!

...for the most part, they’re right.


14 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:36 PM PST by albie
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United States Senator

That about says it all.

15 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:40 PM PST by onedoug
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To: jeffo

Apparently this guy doesn’t read FR. Why I have learned more in the last month about this here than in all my life!


16 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:43 PM PST by freebird5850 (O-Bomb-a, the sleeper cell that slipped by all of us.)
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To: jeffo

“The District Court dismissed Mr. Berg’s suit and held that the question of Obama’s citizenship is not a matter for a court to decide. The court further noted that voters, not courts, should decide whether a particular presidential candidate is qualified to hold office.”

Niet! That is wrong! The Constitution holds strict requirements regarding eligibility, a Natural Born Citizen of at least 35 years of age.


17 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:45 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: jeffo

“I intend to bestow upon him the honor and respect due any man who holds that Office.”

Yeah, Right. Just like you gave Bush.


18 posted on 12/01/2008 12:57:57 PM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: autumnraine

No the fix is not in:

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=20210273

Mr. Vieira explained although legal standing is difficult to get around in Federal courts, the document could be produced in any criminal cases stemming from legislation passed in the Obama administration.

“Let’s assume that an Obama administration passes some of these controversial pieces of legislation he has been promising to go for, like the FOCA (Freedom of Choice) Act,” said Mr. Vieira. “I would assume that some of those surely will have some severe civil or criminal penalties attached to them for violation. You are now the criminal defendant under this statute, which was passed by an Obama Congress and signed by President Obama. Your defense is that is not a statute because Mr. Obama is not the president. You now have a right and I have never heard this challenged, to subpoena in a criminal case, anyone who has relevant evidence relating to your defenses. And you can subpoena them duces tecum, meaning ‘you shall bring with you the documents.’ “

Such a criminal defense would enable the defendant to subpoena any person to testify in court and any person to bring evidence in their possession to the court.

Further, records could be subpoenaed directly, in the case of a birth certificate. Once the record could be subpoenaed, the birth certificate could be examined by forensic experts, who would then be able to testify to the document’s veracity as expert witnesses. Any movement by the judges to make a special exception to the president in a criminal case would hurt the legitimacy of that presidential administration.

“I can’t believe I’m the only lawyer who would think of this,” said Mr. Vieira. “I think any criminal lawyer defending against one of these politically charged statutes is going to come up with this. That means it will never go away until that document is laid down on the table and people say, ‘yes, there it is.’ And therefore they’re caught. If people keep challenging this and the judges out of fear keep saying ‘no, go to jail, go to jail, go to jail’ then that’s the end of the Obama administration’s legitimacy. On the other hand if they open the file and it’s not there, then that’s really the end of the administration’s legitimacy.”


19 posted on 12/01/2008 12:58:17 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Edgar3
"The Constitution, however, does not specify how that qualification for office is to be enforced"

Ummmmmmmm by not letting him hold the office if he is not eligible?

20 posted on 12/01/2008 12:58:43 PM PST by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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