But do you realize that you offered such reasoned exposition to one whom works to sow dissonance and discord and disinformation? The one whom you addressed is on 'the other team' working FR.
Notary, you are sadly, one of the many uninformed. Rush probably knows better, but he also understands the dearth of literacy among so many. Being born i Hawaii in no way established eligibility. Just ask Pat Leahy, and every other senator, who, in 2008, signed Senate Res 511 in which archives you will read:
“My assumption and my understanding is that if you are born of American parents, you are naturally a natural-born American citizen,” Chertoff replied. “That is mine, too,” said Leahy.”
What don't you understand about being born of American Parents? Every U.S. Senator understood that? Oh, they were talking about McCain you say. Then Obama, because he is a descendant of a race some of whom came to the U.S. as slaves, doesn't have the same eligibility requirements as the white man, McCain? But then, this hearing is one of six held because McCain wan’t born on sovereign U.S. territory. No hearings were ever held about Obama, in spite of many, including Commander Charles Kerchner, sent registered letters to congress persons asking them to vet Obama’s eligibility.
No congressman, except Georgia Congressman Nathan Deal, asked for proof of eligibility. The answer to Deal was to dig through his old income taxes and find some excuse to raise ethics charges in the Democrat-controlled ethics committee. Deal resigned, and become Governor of Georgia - one of our heroes.
A Dozen supreme court justices have cited the common-law principle which is variously called natural born Citizenship, birthright citizenship, or Native citizenship, and which means “born on the soil of citizen parents.” Our State Department, after the 14th Amendment, created the term Obama used to define his own status, “Native born citizen of the U.S.” which means born on our soil, but not necessarily of citizen parents.” Obama was honest. He was not born of citizen parents, and no legislator has had the integrity or courage to acknowledge the emperor's admission.
You say “But that all changed with the 14th Amendment.” “The 14th Amendment re-defined who was a natural born Citizen.” You have been told that by so many “authorities” that the prevalence of the misconception is no surprise. Here are the words from the Congressional Record (Called The Globe) by the author of the 14th Amendment, Ohio Congressman John Bingham, who was also the judge who prosecuted the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln:
I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen….
You say “But Wong Kim Ark made citizens and natural born citizens equivalent.” No, the 14th Amendment never mentions natural born citizenship, and if don't trust my claim, read Wong Kim Ark. The first citation by Justice Horace Gray is to fix the definition of natural born Citizen, using the 1874 statement from Chief Justice Morrison Waite printed below. Waite also clarifies that the definition comes form our common-law, from which came most definitions used in the Constitution:
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”
Obama is clearly ineligible to be President. He is not a Constitutional president, by definition. As long as we pretend, turn our heads for whatever reason, we have established the precedent that our executive and legislative branches determine when the Constitution is effective. It was always about allegiance. A child inherits allegiance from his parents. The British didn't even allow naturalized citizens to be in Parliament. Our Constitution permits naturalized citizens to every office but President and Vice President. Obama and McCain are naturalized citizens. It has nothing to do with, and would be unaffected by discovery of a legitimate Hawaiian birth certificate.
But do you realize that you offered such reasoned exposition to one whom works to sow dissonance and discord and disinformation? The one whom you addressed is on 'the other team' working FR.