By now there is bipartisan consensus that Marxism/Socialism is not consistent with freedom and the economic viability of our nation, and consensus, with their secret legislative sessions, that the left doesn't care. If the judiciary had honored its oath to support and defend The Constitution, we wouldn't be here because I'd be surprised if any federal attorney or legislator hadn't at least read Senate Res. 511, where the issue of two citizen parents is the heart of McCain's claim (though McCain never claimed to be a natural born citizen; he let others opine that even if he wasn't he should be, and no one disagreed).
If Kerchner’s conjecture is correct, Bush may have faced the bifurcation: race-war now, or let the economy and the nation reject Obama politically later. I would rather enforce the Constitution, but I understand how such a decision could be made. The economy was in peril. They may have felt that to not quench a potential race war, one which James Carville had all but promised, at this time of financial collapse was to abrogate their responsibility to protect the nation.The cost for their having chosen this path, if they did, is that the judicial branch must be understood as political rather than as impartial interpreters of the law.
The eligibility cover-up is not unlike the decision made by the Clinton administration to deploy the FBI, CIA, and press to cover up the missile attack on flight 800 in 1995. The Clinton team knew they would be perceived as weak on terror, and the airline industry would take a major hit if they didn't cover it up. They knew they couldn't resolve the problem, even if they knew who did it, in time to save his presidency. So they blamed exploding fuel tanks, fuel tanks which had never exploded before or since, and didn't even require that Boeing modify the planes flying with the identical tanks. While I don't agree with their choice, I understand why they did it.
I wonder if a the remedy might be to elect judges, as is done in some states? Or to require that judges be appointed alternately, one from each party, recognizing that they are beholden politically? In California we have turned out a number of supreme court justices. Perhaps judges should all need periodic confirmation - every four years?
BM
Here are some new comments by Rev. Manning posted in this new thread on a thepostemail.com story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2436583/posts
MRS. RONDEAU: What impact do you think this will have if it is proven that he won the presidency through completely false circumstances?
DR. MANNING: Initially, it will set the movement of black people back, and I think it will set the racial problem back a few steps when the news finally becomes a reality. What is happening now is that most people in America, at least 49-51% of Americans, have some idea about his being an ineligible candidate, and so it would not be a total shock. It isn’t as if they’d heard it for the very first time. They’ll be prepared to some degree, and by the time it finally does filter out, there will be a campaign to prepare people to receive it. I think that what it will do is it will first set the relationships back a bit; the civil rights leaders will pick up again. Jesse Jackson will get steam again. But then they will lose it, and I think it will then advance the racial problems in America ahead 100 years. By that I mean black people and white people will finally recognize that it was the epitome of racism to have voted for Obama and that they will ultimately repent of it and stop dividing America along racial lines. It was just the worst thing to have done, to continue to promote racism, and I think after Obama, black people and white people can begin to legitimately lose their black and white identities and move forward as Americans.
Placemark.
I like this thread.