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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 candidates' 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.
McCain Lawyers Investigated Obama
Citizenship
Political Wire
asked earlier this week, if questions over Obama's citizenship were
valid, wouldn't they have come out during the presidential campaign?
David Weigel talked with Trevor Potter and other lawyers for Sen.
John McCain's presidential campaign who said that they did look into the
Obama citizenship rumors and found them without merit.
Said
Potter: "To the extent that we could, we looked into the substantive
side of these allegations. We never saw any evidence that
then-Senator Obama had been born outside of the United States. We
saw rumors, but nothing that could be sourced to evidence. There
were no statements and no documents that suggested he was born somewhere
else. On the other side, there was proof that he was born in
Hawaii. There was a certificate issued
by the state's Department of Health, and the responsible official in the
state saying that he had personally seen the original certificate [not
so]. There was a
birth
announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser, which would be very
difficult to invent or plant 47 years in advance.
So all McCain's high-priced lawyers
looked at was jus soli
(birthplace) when evaluating Obama's eligibility. They neglected
Obama's at birth status
as Kenyan citizen and British subject. It was inconvenient.
All those high-priced lawyers know that "natural born" requires both
tests -- jus solis AND jus sanguinis. Two American citizen
parents, and born in the USA. They overlooked it. It was
inconvenient.
Persons,
eligible for the Office of the President of the United States (POTUS),
NEVER have first generation ties to a foreign nation, whereas ineligible
persons always do. ALL statutory citizens are born with a tie to
another nation by birthplace and/or blood, but NEVER is that the case
with "natural born" citizens who have only American ties.
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.
Lawrence Sellin
says to
the US Congress -- is there not even one among you, who will stand by
your oath of office and state unequivocally that Barack Hussein Obama is
not a natural born citizen and is, therefore, ineligible for the office
of President of the United States?
It serves no purpose here for
me to present arguments supporting a case against Obama’s eligibility or
recite the background and intent of the natural born clause of the
Constitution. That information is already available
here.
Why does Congress
feign ignorance, continue a conspiracy of silence and display blatant
cowardice in regard to this issue? Is it that members of Congress
are too politically correct, too complicit in a cover-up and are just
stalling in the desperate hope that Obama is not re-elected?
What
happens then, if through some tragic mistake of history, Obama is
re-elected? Congress could find themselves, not only in
dereliction of their duty, but potentially contributing to the
destruction of our republic.
Edwin Vieira, a leading
Constitutional scholar,
warns that
Obama’s questionable eligibility, if left unresolved, could become
precedent and justification for both continuing the erosion of the
Constitution and abolishing the rights it provides to all Americans:
"If Obama turns out to be nothing more than
an usurper who has fraudulently seized control of the Presidency,
not only will the Constitution have been egregiously flouted, but
also this whole country could be, likely will be, destroyed as a
consequence. And if this country is even credibly threatened
with destruction, every American will be harmed -- irretrievably,
should the threat become actuality -- including those who voted or
intend to vote for Obama, who are also part of We the People.
Therefore, in this situation, any and every American must have
"standing" to demand -- and must demand, both in judicial fora and
in the fora of public opinion that Obama immediately and
conclusively prove himself eligible for "the Office of President."
Not anything about Obama’s ineligibility is either
a surprise or an accident.
As it turned out, Senator John McCain
was the perfect Republican opponent for Obama. Although the
argument is now moot, McCain also had
questionable eligibility
under the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution.
The
controversy surrounding McCain’s eligibility was perfectly exploited by
Obama’s allies in the main stream media and by liberal legal scholars
both of whom feigned sincerity in their quest to interpret correctly the
text and the intent of the Constitution.
The charade continued on
the floor of the Senate, where Republicans and Democrats colluded by
passing the non-binding and phony
Senate Resolution 511
declaring John McCain a natural born citizen and, thereby, providing
Obama the smokescreen he needed to circumvent the Constitution.
So when SR 511 was passed in a non-recorded vote on April 30, 2008,
the fix was in and Congress
lowered an iron curtain of silence about Obama’s ineligibility, which
has continued to this day.
Obama Should Be president Of Kenya
Republicans were quiet because they were just as complicit in
supporting McCain, whom the Democrat Senate whitewashed with SR 511 and
the Obama-McCaskill SB 2678 during the spring of 2008. They are willing
crooks, and one way or another, in the famous words of Obama’s spiritual
adviser for two decades, "The chickens are coming home to roost." They
should all be prosecuted, because all of them knew that Obama was born
to an alien father. Obama told us. He also told that us that he was
"native born," not "natural born" and that "at birth" was
a "subject" of the British Commonwealth.
Would our founders and
framers have written a constitution which would sanction as president,
our sovereign, the son, born to and a subject of our enemy Great
Britain? Not hardly.
What's interesting however, under the new Kenyan constitution, Barack
Obama is a citizen of Kenya, by birth and
is eligible to be elected president of Kenya, whether he was born in
Kenya or not.
