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'Birthers' Nonsense Sets Georgia Up For Ridicule -- Again
Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer ^ | January 27, 2012

Posted on 01/27/2012 6:53:39 AM PST by transducer

We will risk the fairly safe assumption, as this is being written, that Air Force One did not make an appearance at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport sometime Thursday....

You almost have to laugh at this latest chapter in the seemingly endless “birther” saga, because about the only alternatives at this point are tears and/or nausea.

It was embarrassing enough when members of the Georgia legislature -- including, to Columbus’ acute humiliation, two members of the local delegation -- drafted a “Presidential Eligibility Assurance Act” in the last legislative session.

Now Georgians get to enjoy the added spectacle of their secretary of state, Brian Kemp, warning the president (let that sink in -- warning the president) through a White House attorney that failure to appear in a Georgia court would be “at your own peril.”...

Peach Pundit editor Charlie Harper, in a blog published this week in the Savannah Morning News, wrote: “This is a mistake. We are taught from a young age that we will be judged by the company we keep … The birther argument transcends disagreements of policy and politics and spirals into pure nuttery.” How true.

Georgia, no thanks to some judgment-impaired officials and certainly without the consent of the governed, has been slumming in the Orly Taitz nuttery neighborhood way too long. Please, for the sake of the state’s already battered image, let’s just quietly tiptoe out of this putrid political ghetto and back to the daylight side of town before we attract any more ridicule....

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: birtherism; birthers; crackpots; naturalborncitizen; nonsense; orly; orlytaitz; taitz; zot
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To: backwoods-engineer
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.

A child born in a country to a mother who was its citizen and a sperm donor of unknown origin is a child of a citizen. Another child born in a country to a mother who was a citizen and a sperm donor of unknown origin is also a child of a citizen. One child born in a country of a parent who was its citizen plus one child born in a country of a parent who was its citizen equals "children born in a country of parents who were its citizens".

You guys do realize there is a reason that Mark Levin completely dismisses you right?

141 posted on 01/27/2012 8:47:26 AM PST by douginthearmy (Obamagebra: 1 job + 1 hope + 1 change = 0 jobs + 0 hope)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
A NBC is someone born in the US. Period.

Bullcrap.

Stop spreading lies on FR, Obot troll.

142 posted on 01/27/2012 8:48:10 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: transducer
He was ruled a citizen who did not need to be naturalized to become a citizen...

He was deemed a citizen ...by virtue of the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution...

You even give it away with your own words...He was ruled a citizen...
You didn't say "He was ruled a natural born citizen..."

143 posted on 01/27/2012 8:49:14 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
EricYou may want to rethink your camment.
144 posted on 01/27/2012 8:49:54 AM PST by Ratman83
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To: Ratman83; Eric in the Ozarks
Let me try again. Eric

Until the 14th Amendment was passed you could be born in the US and not be a citizen (slaves).

So you may want to rethink your comment.

145 posted on 01/27/2012 8:53:04 AM PST by Ratman83
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To: douginthearmy
You guys do realize there is a reason that Mark Levin completely dismisses you right?

Thanks for admitting to the logical errors of conflating issues and appeal to authority.

But I will answer anyway, since I'm in such a fine mood.

Mark Levin castigates those who say Obama wasn't born here, and therefore needs to be impeached. I don't hold with that, either, since

a) Obama already holds the office, and

b) Obama isn't a natural-born citizen, which holds constitutional priority over how pretty his birth certificate is.

The 2012 election is another chance. If Obama is not an NBC, he should not be on any state ballot for President, and if elected in that state, should not be certified by the Secretary of State for that state. End of story.

146 posted on 01/27/2012 8:55:38 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: transducer

This article is Afterbirther flapdoodle for sure, Mr. Retread freeper.

How long will it be before you get zotted again?


147 posted on 01/27/2012 8:56:32 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Thanks but I don’t think one needs to be on fire in order to be able to read and interpret the English with some clarity.

You seem to have that ability as well and that is a GOOD thing for our country!


148 posted on 01/27/2012 8:57:27 AM PST by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

You forgot “Natural Born Citizen”.


149 posted on 01/27/2012 9:00:10 AM PST by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell)
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To: Redleg Duke; transducer; Jim Robinson

If I remember correctly, this turd was zotted for threatening to sue Jim for some alleged ‘libel’ by another freeper on a CrEvo thread.


150 posted on 01/27/2012 9:01:20 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Looks like he finally got zotted - took awhile didn’t it!


151 posted on 01/27/2012 9:02:33 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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Review these 3 cases after reading the constitutions original intent by the founding fathers here:

http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel_01.htm

Book 1 Chapter XIX

§ 212. Citizens and natives.

The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.
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Then tell me birthers are wrong.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/minorvhapp.html

MINOR v. HAPPERSETT
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
88 U.S. 162; 21 Wall. 162
OCTOBER, 1874, Term
[Unanimous decision of the Supreme Court holding that the Constitution of the United States
does not guarantee to women the right to vote in federal elections.]
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

http://supreme.justia.com/us/143/135/case.html

BOYD V. NEBRASKA EX REL. THAYER, 143 U. S. 135 (1892)
Case Preview
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U.S. Supreme Court
Boyd v. Nebraska ex Rel. Thayer, 143 U.S. 135 (1892)
Boyd v. Nebraska ex Rel. Thayer
No. 1208
Argued December 8, 1891
Decided February 1, 1892
143 U.S. 135
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA
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http://supreme.justia.com/us/193/621/

POPE V. WILLIAMS, 193 U. S. 621 (1904)
Case Preview
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U.S. Supreme Court
Pope v. Williams, 193 U.S. 621 (1904)
Pope v. Williams
No. 603
Argued March 8-9, 1904
Decided April 4, 1904
193 U.S. 621
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152 posted on 01/27/2012 9:03:25 AM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: TheOldLady

Transducer has had his jolt (again, retread)


153 posted on 01/27/2012 9:12:12 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Period!


154 posted on 01/27/2012 9:13:59 AM PST by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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To: USCG SimTech

Great post. I will have to go back and read that full paper. Which founding father was this? Hamilton?


155 posted on 01/27/2012 9:16:40 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: backwoods-engineer

This account has been banned or suspended.


156 posted on 01/27/2012 9:16:59 AM PST by GregNH (................GO PATS!.....................)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
You might have a closer look at the parentage of America’s past presidents. If what you suggest is correct, there’s been a whole lot of violating going on.

Really?

Care to show me ONE/ANY/A SINGLE president, born after the Constitution was ratified, who at the time of their birth had a parent who was not a US citizen?

And forget about Chester A. Author, he claimed, and provided evidence that his father was naturalized before his birth - even destroyed his families historical records to make ssure noone could prove otherwise.

You CAN'T - because EVERY other US president besides Obama was born of TWO US citizen parents.
157 posted on 01/27/2012 9:18:49 AM PST by MMaschin
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To: transducer

All right, stoopid.

Let’s work this thing backward.

Let’s start with a lawful demand to appear in a legally constituted court, in the United States of America and a Georgia venue.

(Little wordy but what the hell. By now you are gone anyway)


158 posted on 01/27/2012 9:22:15 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: backwoods-engineer

You got that right. GA will likely end up being known as the mouse that roared. Right now there are about 4-5 other states thinking about keeping Obozo off the ballot and they are watching our case closely.

The truth of the matter is that Barack Obama never was eligible to run for President and through some unspoken agreement both parties aided and abetted by the MSM looked the other way and allowed him to get elected. Obama was never adequately vetted. He has many secrets that he has gone to extreme lengths to keep hidden for 3 years now. Finally the vetting is beginning.

Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal are also not eligible as natural born citizens and they should not be allowed to run for VP or President. They can serve their country in other ways.

My personal belief is that if GA decides to keep Barry off the ballot he will never appeal it higher than the GA state supreme court because he is afraid he will lose if he takes it to the Supremes. Besides the fact that his father was not a US citizen there must be some problem with his original birth certificate. Otherwise he could have had his attorney just show up with the original and the judge might have gone for it. He has most likely produced a forgery for the public and his lawyer is probably hesitant to carry forged docs to a judge.


159 posted on 01/27/2012 9:26:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Ratman83

You might want to invest in a dictionary.


160 posted on 01/27/2012 9:39:53 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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