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To: Zakeet

I think it’s interesting that the media is even beginning to consider the possibility, but I think the Dem party considered the possibility a long time ago and already has a strategy in place.

I think (if undeniable evidence emerges) that Obama will get off the hook by saying he didn’t know, he just went by what his mother and grandparents told him, etc. Of course, they’re all conveniently dead. But a lip-biting, moist-eyed appearance by Obama, probably blaming his dead white grandmother, would make the media and half of the country swoon, and there’d be no consequences to him.

If it can be proved that he did know, then I think they will take the approach that the law is ambiguous on what “natural born” means. Constitutional precepts always have to be defined and implemented by laws. This is why you have the Supreme Court - to decide on whether or not a particular law expresses the intention of the more general precept in the Constitution.

The law in effect at the time of Obama’s birth would actually have excluded him from being a natural born citizen (that is, considered to automatically be a citizen from birth) because he was born outside of the country to one foreign parent and another parent who had NOT been in the country for 5 years after the age of 14. His mother was only 18 at the time of his birth.

However, a subsequent law lowered the age to 2 years and I think no time period is even specified in current law. So I think the applicability of these laws is what would have to go before the court.

I don’t think Congress could simply declare him to be a citizen at birth, however. That is, they could declare it, but it would still be meaningless.


58 posted on 08/04/2009 4:12:41 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

“I think it’s interesting that the media is even beginning to consider the possibility, but I think the Dem party considered the possibility a long time ago and already has a strategy in place.”
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If there is any type of formal investigation that occurs, it must include his school and medical records, if they havent already been scrubbed.

For this issue to be properly examined, ALL stones must be unturned.


221 posted on 08/04/2009 8:22:50 AM PDT by Canedawg ( "Government cant make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - S. Palin)
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To: livius
If it can be proved that he did know, then I think they will take the approach that the law is ambiguous on what “natural born” means. Constitutional precepts always have to be defined and implemented by laws.

The boasting, embellishment and lying will come into play here. He's not a lay man, he's a Constitutional PROFESSOR for crying out loud!

0ghosta and his communist allies, including the MSM, the RAT party bigwigs, the people who "checked" his credentials, etc., must pay for the biggest fraud in history.

The US and the world need a legitimate POTUS.

232 posted on 08/04/2009 8:54:40 AM PDT by melancholy
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