Posted on 12/07/2009 10:47:09 PM PST by Frantzie
More than a few Times-Union readers want to know:
Is Barack Obama eligible to be president of the United States?
All the independent fact-checking sources, some of which did extensive original research on the issue, conclude that Obama is a natural born citizen, having been born on American soil in Honolulu, and is thus eligible to be president.
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...
Yes, but the specific text the birthers wish to cite was not translated until 1796.
And, if one were to be able to read the original text in French, the term “natural born citizen” would not come from a direct translation.
And finally, This is America and we are governed by our Constitution, not the the writings of Swiss philosophers.
His baby daddy was a FOREIGNER!!!
He's NOT a NBC.
He's NOT a NBC.
And you have nothing whatsoever to back-up that claim.
No citation from the Constitution
No Federal Legislation
No Court Decision
That ship has sailed. We need to focus on defeating his communist proposals.
American socialists are employing the “Big Lie” tactic, promulgated by this infamous German Socialist, Adolf Hitler — they’re good at it — and the ObamaMedia is their megaphone.
The Big Lie (German: Große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf for a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”.
The source of Big Lie technique, from Chapter 10 of Mein Kampf:
But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and shame. By placing responsibility for the loss of the world war on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice.
All this was inspired by the principle—which is quite true in itself—that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
I think this winter there will be a LOT of unemployed people willing to make a few dollars here and there as investigators to talk to any people that may have known Obama as he grew up.
All it takes is someone to get a small fund set up and organize this.
I do believe WND will pay for any new information.
Obamas past will never be hidden forever, the truth will arise.
I don’t think Obama even knows the truth, he did that little trip to Hawaii, didn’t get a birth certificate from a hospital to shove in our faces, so now only can rely on that Certificate of Live Birth, of course not really being able to verify where he was born, but secretly wishing it was Africa
Isn't this a remarkable statement to see in a newspaper one year after the Kenyan Clown was elected?
Just the fact that publishing such bland assurances that reputable "fact-checking" sources have verified that the occupant of the Oval Office was actually born here is even felt to be necessary is a huge red flag that something is very rotten.
Worse, this has all the characteristics of the "Big Lie": a remarkable statement is repeated almost daily by the MSM, and the "sources" given are the same old highly questionable ones. Snopes, for goodness sake, is simply a small site that is merely repeating what the Annenberg "FactCheck" website has put out --- and the Kenyan Clown's connections with the Annenberg Foundation are extensive and well-known.
This article cites FactCheck no less than 11 times, and no other non-derivative source. It's hard to believe that anyone could write and sign her name to such a silly, tendentious piece of tripe as Ms. Fader has here.
Why these idiots in the media cannot be bothered to actually do investigating more difficult than one year of cutting and pasting from the same highly dubious "FactCheck" website should be a textbook case in journalistic laziness and stupidity. It's not hard to see why readership of the MSM is falling so quickly.
Oxford University Press USA
America and the Law of Nations 1776-1939
Mark Weston Janis
ISBN13: 9780199579341
ISBN10: 0199579342 Hardback, 320 pages
Jun 2010, Not Yet Published
Description
The American Tradition of International Law 1776-1939 is a unique exploration of the ways in which Americans have
perceived, applied, advanced, and frustrated international law.
It demonstrates the varieties and continuities of America's approaches to international law.
The book begins with the important role the law of nations played for founders like Jefferson and Madison
in framing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
It then discusses the intellectual contributions to international law made by leaders in the New Republic -Kent and Wheaton-
and the place of international law in the 19th century judgments of Marshall, Story, and Taney.
The book goes on to examine the contributions of American utopians -Dodge, Worcester, Ladd, Burritt, and Carnegie-
to the establishment of the League of Nations, the World Court,
the International Law Association and the American Society of International Law.
It finishes with an analysis of the wavering support to international law given by Woodrow Wilson
and the emergence of a new American isolationism following the disappointment of World War I.
For anyone who hopes to understand the important place of international law in America and the
complex role of America in the development of international law,
The American Tradition of International Law 1776-1939 is a crucial read.
Table of Contents
1. The Law of Nations and the New Republic: Jefferson and Madison
2. The Law of Nations and International Law: Blackstone and Bentham
3. International Law and American Law: Marshall and Story
4. The International Law of Christendom: Kent and Wheaton
5. International Law and American Diplomacy: Jay and Webster
6. The Utopians: Dodge, Worcester, Ladd and Burritt
7. Slavery and American Exceptionalism: Taney and his Court
8. The Codification and Science of International Law: Lieber, Field and Wharton
9. The Alabama Arbitration and its Progeny: The International Law Association and the American Society of International Law
10. The New Utopians: Brace, Hill and Carnegie
11. The Reluctant International Law Enthusiast: Wilson
12. The Profession of International Law: Root and Scott
13. After Utopia: International Law and Isolationism
About the Author(s)
Mark Weston Janis is William F. Starr Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Born in Chicago in 1947, he is a graduate of Princeton (A.B. 1969),
Oxford (B.A. 1972) where he was a Rhodes scholar, and Harvard (J.D. 1977).
He served as a U.S. naval officer (1972-75), and practiced international corporate and financial law
with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Paris (1977-80).
He first joined the faculty at Connecticut in 1980.
He was for four years (1993-97) a member of the law faculty of the University of Oxford in England
where he was Reader in Law, Fellow of Exeter College, and Director of Graduate Legal Studies (Research Degrees).
He is the author of three widely-adopted law school books:
An Introduction to International Law (Aspen 5th edn 2008),
Cases and Commentary on International Law (West 3rd edn 2006),
and European Human Rights Law (OUP 3rd edn 2008).
He has also published more than 50 articles on international law.
Main Author:
Louis Sears
Summary/Abstract:
TJ was versed in the classic sources of international law, e.g. Grotius, Vattel, Puffendorf,
but in face of the collapse of this "classical" school, he became a significant figure in the attempt
to "reconstitute a new law of nations," even while appealing to the old authorities.
The Embargo was a "grand experiment" whose failure was a "tragedy."
Published in Spanish as "Jefferson y el derecho de las naciones." Inter-America. 4(1920), 181-93. -- Frank Shuffelton
Found in: American Political Science Review. Vol 13, 1919.
I am very puzzled with your statement about America being governed by the Constitution.
Why would any patriotic American back anyone that is so set on destroying it and our Nation?
Kenya Sunday Standard headline Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
The Nigerian Observer Americans will today go to the polls to elect their next President with Democratic Party candidate, Senator Barack Obama largely favoured to win. The Kenyan-born Senator will
USAfrica Kenyan-born OBAMA makes history wins presidential nomination of U. S. Democratic party; eyes on White House
AllAfrica.com Little wonder then why Kenyan-born Barack Obama, Americas first Black President
GraphicGhana.com For Ghana, Obamas visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this
presidential visit to the continent of his birth. The same article, with the same quote, appeared in ModernGhana.com.
The Ghana Times So far, the odds favour the once underdog in American politics, Obama, the African-American Senator from Illinois state. A Congressional Quarterly
(CQ) politics monitored on BBC put the Kenyan born American ahead of his rivel, John McCain.
From the comment section:
(AmericanDaughter) NPR.org
She also describes the stories that have been exciting, including the U.S. presidential race of Kenyan-born Sen. Barack Obama.
(AmericanDaughter) AllAfrica.com Kampala Ugandans have formed a group to mobilise support for Kenyan born-senator, Barack Obama for the US presidency. "
The DNC controls what many newspapers write. Have you checked their website? Are they directly sourcing this propaganda?
Why do these Deadhead NewsRags keep this issue alive? Most thinking people know not to rely on fraud Fact Checkers & realize BO is the Pig in the Poke liar but this doesn’t make any sense to me.
Why is it that only certain individuals can see the “original” birth certificate? What is being hidden away and, well, we know why. It’s obvious.
That too, I believe, is incorrect. As a child born in 1961, Barry Jr., was actually a British subject, because Kenya did not achieve formal independence from Britian until 1964. (By then I believe his “father” was shacked up with some other lady-loser, adding to his horde of bastard children between swigs of alcohol and rants against “the man”.)
Regardless, my biggest question in this whole matter is WHY spend upwards of $1.7M to keep original documentation of your past a secret???
OK fine, if someone wants to say he’s a full American citizen, we’ll yield the point.
Now show us the long-form birth certificate anyway.
If he has nothing to hide, then there is no problem. Right?
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