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Why Is John McCain Defending His
Opponent?
McCain: "You Do Not Have To Be Scared" of
Obama as President (00:15)
The Deal
The Republican Party is complicit in
Obama’s coup d'état. They became a party to the conspiracy, and
the Democrats compromised the Republican candidate when Leahy and
company "resolved" that John McCain was/is a "natural born" citizen.
He isn’t, and was/is equally ineligible to serve as CiC.
The
Democrats neutered McCain who never said a word about Rev. Wright, Bill
Ayers, Alice Palmer, and the rest of the communists, socialists, black
nationalists, and other assorted dirtbags that form Obama’s closest and
longest lasting relationships and associations.
Most members of
Congress are attorneys. The judges too. They all studied the
Constitution. They know the law (at least enough to pass the bar).
They know Obama is ineligible, but they made a deal with the devil and
now have to live with it.
It Started In 2006
Many new-left
academics believe being a "natural born" citizen is a relic, including
Obama law firm associate Sarah Herlihy, who wrote
a brief,
"Amending the Natural Born Citizen Requirement," for Chicago-Kent Law
Review in 2006. Cass Sunstein, Thomas Friedman, Barney Frank, a phalanx of Obama
supporters are cited.
Claire McCaskill On Board Early
McCaskill
wasted no time establishing herself in Congress after her 2006 election
victory, challenging the Democratic leadership on issues such as
earmarks and
hitching
her star to the Democratic Party’s new standard-bearer, Barack Obama.
Obama And McCain Both Have A Problem
In early 2008, the McCain and Obama campaigns recognized
there might be a problem with their candidate's eligibility.
McCain was born in a
foreign country, and Obama's father was a foreign
alien, and a temporary visitor to the United States on a student visa.
Hillary, still in the campaign, was slowly being edged to the side by
the Democratic Party power-brokers.
On February 28, 2008, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
introduced a bill to the Senate for consideration. That bill was known
as S. 2678: Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act. The
bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Sen. Hillary Clinton
(D-NY), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Sen. Thomas Coburn (R-OK).
Bill S. 2678 attempted to change article II, section 1,
clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States with reference to the
requirements of being a "natural born citizen" and hence; the entitlement to
run for President of the United States. This bill met the same fate that
similar attempts to change the Constitution have in the past.
Within only five
short weeks after Senate Bill 2678 faded from the floor, we find Sen.
Claire McCaskill back again, making another attempt with
Senate Resolution 511. On
April 10, 2008, she introduced a secondary proposal in the form of a
non-binding resolution, recognizing John McCain as a "natural born
citizen" in defiance of the Constitution. Curiously, it contained
the same identical co-sponsors, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Leahy Says Two US Citizen Parents
-- And Obama Agrees
On April
10, 2008, Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
introduced a resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that
presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was a "natural born"
Citizen, as specified in the Constitution and eligible to run for
president. Sen. McCaskill knew Obama was not a U.S. Citizen,
that’s why she introduced this bill -- dressing it up to look like it
was in Sen. John McCain's cause.
It was during the bill's hearing
that Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
made the following statement:
"Because he was born to American citizens, there is no
doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,"
said
Leahy. "I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the
Senate."
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on April 3, Leahy asked
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal
judge, if he had doubts that McCain was eligible to serve as President.
"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's
interesting here is that Sen. Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate
Judiciary, confirms that a "natural born" citizen is the child of
American citizen parents.
Parents -- that's two. That's BOTH
parents.
Every time the words, "citizen" and "parent," are used
by Sen. Leahy and Sec. Chertoff, the plural case, "citizens" and
"parents," is used. The plural case is the operative case.
It is Sen. Leahy's opinion -- his own recorded words, in a formal Senate
Resolution and on his U. S.
Senate website -- that Barack Obama is not a "natural born"
citizen, and therefore not eligible to serve as Commander-in-Chief,
regardless of his birthplace.
Obama had one American parent
--singular -- his mother. His father was a citizen of Kenya, and a
subject of Great Britain.
Obama, himself, "at birth," was a
citizen of Kenya, and a subject of Great Britain -- he
says so on his own campaign website.
This fact introduces the concept of "divided loyalties," -- the reason
the founders created the eligibility requirement in the first place -- a
fact that further underlines
Obama's ineligibility.
The source of this information is Sen. Leahy's own website.
The webpage contains a statement about the resolution; the resolution, itself;
the Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.); and an excerpt of Sec.
Chertoff's testimony.
The plural word "parents" is used four
times. When used to identify the parents, the word "citizens" is used
five times. That's nine times that Sen. Leahy, on his own website describes the
eligibility requirement. There is NO PLACE in any of these four
documents where the singular case of "parent" or "citizen" is used.
Did Republicans Purposely Run An Ineligible
Candidate?
John F. Sweeney says, that in discussions
concerning the constitutional eligibility of Barrack Hussein Obama II
for the office of President of the United States, many point out that if
there were a real issue, the Republicans would have leveraged it in 2008
to retain control of the White House. But it was well-documented
at the time, and additional documentation and analysis have established,
that John McCain’s eligibility was in question as well. With that
being the case, why would the Republicans nominate a candidate who might
not be constitutionally eligible to serve in the office?
The
answer may be a simple one -- the 2008 race was going to the Democrats
and the Republicans did not want a leading candidate for 2012 to lose or
be roughed up during the campaign. So the solution -- let the man
who needed to win in 2008, if he was ever going to be president, run --
even if he might not be constitutionally eligible. Was this a
grand conspiracy by the Republican Party? No, it was just simple
pragmatic political strategy.
The Republicans had few things
going for them in 2007 and 2008. They had lost the Congress in the
2006 elections, and they had a president who was losing popularity as an
unpopular war dragged on. Even if things had been going relatively
well, history was against a third straight term in the White House.
Since 1953, only once had the White House been occupied by a party more
than eight consecutive years, and that was when George H. Bush rode
Ronald Reagan’s popularity to take the 1988 election. Clearly,
2008 was not like 1988, and it was unlikely the Republicans were going
to keep the White House. They knew it, and they knew it early.
So when John McCain showed some strength in the primaries, the other
front-runners backed off. They knew the odds of winning in 2008
were long. So they avoided going into the 2008 Presidential buzz
saw. John McCain had no choice but to make a final and gallant run
for the office. The year 2008 was his last stand as a presidential
candidate. He was 71 years old. No president has ever been
elected for his first term after his 70th birthday. Stories and
articles were popping up about McCain’s age in 2008, and polls showed it
was a negative factor. If it was a negative issue at age 71 in
2008, it will be a killer issue in 2012 when John McCain will be 75
years old.
So for the Republican Party, the setup in the
presidential race looked straightforward in 2008. There was almost
no chance to win, no matter who the nominee was. So they nominated
the only guy who cannot run in future races: John McCain.
Was the
Republican Party aware of John McCain’s eligibility issue?
Of course it was.
