Posted on 07/27/2009 9:20:26 AM PDT by pissant
http://www.georgefox.edu/academics/undergrad/departments/writing_lit/FacultyPages/Melanie_Springer.html
1. Okie hippie
2. Combs her hair with a fork
Conclusion:
Guilty!
Why bother to change, if 0bama is telling the truth???
In the mind of a leftist,
your (ie, the founders’) reasons would be completely invalid.
Since they are in the past,
obviously they don’t have as much knowledge
as those living now,
so their reasoning cannot be given any weight
in comparison to even this author,
who has more information than the founders
due to the fact she’s living NOW,
and they were living THEN.
Remember, this is just an analysis of how leftists
like the author think, and not my position.
Melanie Mock, eh?
Psalm 1:1
Blessed are those
who do not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers
I think her point is that many, many Americans are not natural born citizens. And they want to be President someday. So, they see it as an unfair part of the 'law'.
That is why they do not worry, or object to the possibility Obama is not a 'natural born citizen'.
from http://contexts.org/socimages/tag/foreign-policy/
Ironically, a lot of the arugments in favor of her adopted children being eligible to be POTUS do not apply to Obama. Her boys are growing up with a very, typical American experience. Obama did not.
His father, who he is named after, was a Kenyan, socialist (at best) who came here on a student visa and returned home shortly after Obama was born. After this, Obama was adopted by another foreign national, and spent his formative years in a largely anti-American, Islamic nation. He was somehow able to travel to Pakistan in 1982, when it was illegal for Americans to do so.
I remember, during the campaign, Chris Matthews (with a thrill going up his leg, no doubt) glowingly spoke of him as being “a gift to us from the world”. I don’t know about “gift”, but Matthews was right in that Barack Hussein Obama (even if we assume he was indeed born in Hawaii) is in many ways a foreigner, who has come from “the world” as opposed to from an American experience.
While the framers were probably not thinking of those adopted at 3 months old, and raised in America, by American citizen parents, they probably were thinking of individuals like Obama when the wrote the natural born citizen requirment into the Constitution.
That is not to say, Obama should be inelgible if he was born in Hawaii. However, I do wish the American people would have demonstrated some of the wisdom of the founders, and not elected a candidate with so many foreign ties.
Personal Interests
Melanie’s non-academic interests include her two sons, Samuel and Benjamin, running and watching good shows on television.
And as a liberal `egg-head’ she enjoys sharing her feckless, lefty political positions with the world while phrasing them, as do most “progressive” academics, as categorical statements.
Which party is that?
the unspoken assertion that because Obama does not look like "us," he is not American.
It's unspoken because no one has asserted it. And no one has asserted it because it's ridiculous. His looks have absolutely nothing to do with it. But libs can't pass up an opportunity to play the race card. Against BHO's health care plan? Racist. Against tax hikes? Racist. Support upholding the Constitution? Racist. ...etc.
the infamous Joe the Plumber has an easier chance of ascending to the country's highest office than [my Vietnam-born sons] do.
lol...infamous? In Melanie's eyes, conservatives are all rotten, and the well-known ones are "infamous."
my 7-year-old foreign-born sons know more about U.S. history and politics than most of their peers, given what they hear at home from their politically obsessed parents
Poor kids -- brainwashed daily by fanatical, mean-spirited, socialistic parents. One can only imagine the historical revisionism regurgitated in that household.
Ms. Mock’s email addy: mmock@georgefox.edu
What’s ludicrous is that no one from the President’s family, or nayone who knows him can tell the same story as anyone else.
According to friends and family;
He was born in 2 different hospitals in Hawaii and another one in Kenya.
His parents were single, married, or not seeing each other when he was born.
His birth announcement lists an address that no one in his family ever lived in.
Now that’s ludicrous.
It should. There are exceptions for people in office at the time of adoption, but otherwise the plain language should allow a second-term president to run again if it were no longer in effect. This of course depends on the language of the rescinding amendment. While it would be hard to push such an amendment through, it would be nearly impossible if it let the current president stay in office because cries of "dictator for life" and "power grab" would be legitimately all over the place.
Likewise. if Obama were forced out and this idiot's amendment passed, Obama would be free to run again at the next election unless the rescinding amendment stated otherwise.
I have to say I’ve never seen the state election entry form. In which case couldn’t any registered voter of the state of AZ sue to see the BC? In that the AZ Secretary of State is acting on behalf of the voters?
And then there’s the question of his mother being legally able to confer citizenship?
I fart in her general direction.
Not even. All Bambi has to do is to waive his privacy rights in regard to birth information that the State of Hawaii and its hospitals have in their files. We'll pay for the certified copies.
ML/NJ
I seriously doubt that even 10 states could pass through with 66% of the vote this amendment.
I’ll by the pizza and the beer for the press conference.
ML/NJ
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