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| Mischaracterizing The Eligibility Issue |
V. Harlow says the
eligibility issue has constantly been mischaracterized as a
"citizenship" issue, or a "birth certificate" issue, and major media
outlets keep playing on this same theme over and over, ridiculing those
who want the truth.
I suspect they are partially driven by fear.
Fear they won't get interviews, fear they won't get invitations, fear
they won't get to cover important issues if this issue is included in
what they cover. Even Fox News continues to ridicule and
mischaracterize this very important Constitutional issue.
Can we
attack this administration on other valid issues? Yes, of course.
I don't advocate doing anything less. It's not right to push the
very valid and important Constitutional issue of the eligibility of the
current resident of White House to hold the job, aside as though it is
of no matter. There have been people scoffing for over a year now,
yet lawsuits continue. The issue is law. The highest office
in the land, the one responsible for upholding our laws and protecting
our freedoms is the issue.
Most reasonable people don't question
the "citizenship" of Obama. The Constitution has special
requirements for holders of the office of President of the Unite States.
Those requirements are "natural born citizen." That is a higher
standard than "citizen." It is a higher standard than "native
citizen."
Some people signed off on Obama's qualification rather
cavalierly either knowingly or carelessly. They need to be held to
account.
It's easy to ridicule and destroy the reputations and
careers of people fighting this battle, but it's wrong. Orly Taitz,
no matter how one questions her professionalism, does not deserve the
treatment she has received from anonymous callers, from malicious
supporters of Obama, or from major media outlets. She comes
willing and determined to defend our Constitution, while so many charged
with that responsibility have forsaken it completely.
Donofrio,
Pidgeon, Berg, Kreep, and others fighting the battle do not deserve the
ridicule. The American People overwhelmingly want to know the
truth.
An honest hearing is required.
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| "We Gotta Have Proof" |
Attorney
General Ken Cuccinelli, fresh off the controversy that he generated with
his letter to Virginia public colleges and universities earlier this
month advising them against going too far in policies protecting gays
and lesbians from discrimination on campus, is back in the hot seat
again, this time over comments from late last year questioning Obama’s
citizenship.
The comments came to light in a posting on the
left-wing political blog Not Larry Sabato on Monday that included audio
from an interview conducted by an unnamed man of Cuccinelli in the
post-election transition period.
In the interview, the man asks
Cuccinelli what can be done "about Obama and the birth-certificate
thing." Cuccinelli responds that he thinks the question of Obama’s
citizenship that has been a cause celebre for the far, far right dating
back to the 2008 presidential election, "will get tested, in my view,
when someone -- when he signs a law, and someone is convicted of
violating it, and one of their defenses will be, 'It's not a law because
someone qualified to be president didn’t sign it.'"
The
interviewer then interjects that the issue would be that, "we are
talking about the possibility that he was not born in America,"
referring to Obama. "Right," answers Cuccinelli. "But at the same
time under Rule 11, Federal Rule 11, we gotta have proof of it."
Later in the exchange, Cuccinelli says it is not "beyond the realm of
possibility" that Obama was born in Kenya, as has been suggested
consistently by far-right partisans.
Cuccinelli told the
Washington Post in a statement on the matter released on Monday that he
"absolutely believe(s)" that Obama was born in America.
"I don’t
buy into the claims that he wasn’t," Cuccinelli said.
This item is posted to demonstrate
how the "eligibility" issue is confused with citizenship. They are
two different issues. Obama is a "citizen by statute."
Accept that. However, he remains ineligible to serve as CiC
because of the facts of his birth. His alleged father was a Kenyan
citizen, and a subject of Great Britain. At birth, this status was
conveyed to Obama. A
fact he admits to on his own website.
When you have
this discussion with your friends and associates, be very careful to
separate eligibility from citizenship, and be prepared to discuss
"statutory
citizenship" v. eligibility.
As an aside, see how the writer
opens his piece with a pejorative paragraph completely unrelated to the
subject he addresses. |
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