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November 15, 2008
It's Not the Citizenship...it's the Secrecy
Alan Keyes is suing Barack Obama over the issue of whether the president-elect is constitutionally eligible to hold the office to which he was just elected. Personally, I think he is. The arguments against his citizenship seem a bit too unconvincing.
However...
Like ace says, if Obama fights this battle too much longer without producing proof of his citizenship, you've got to wonder about this guy. Not whether he's a citizen (he is - his mother was an American citizen at time of his birth) but why he's spent so much time and money covering up his past. Obama has successfully hidden records of his time as a state senator and his time as a student at three universities. His allies fought to keep journalists from accessing records related to the Annenberg Challenge.
America has elected a cipher based on his ability to give pretty speeches and the desire for hopenchange. And the same left that has raged against the 'secretive' Bush administration for eight years is largely silent when Obama refuses to let the sunlight shine on his past.
Posted by slublog at November 15, 2008 08:06 PM
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If Obama's American born mom was under 19 years old if when he was born in Kenya, then he is NOT a natural born citizen of the US so as to qualify under the constitution.
Unavoidable scenario: If SCOTUS disqualifies Obama BEFORE 1/20/09 inauguration, McCain is POTUS per remaining electoral college electors; if SCOTUS disqualifies Obama after 1/20/09 inauguration, Hillary likely becomes POTUS per vote of Dem controlled House of Rep. Either way, is clear Obama will NOT be or remain POTUS.
Posted by: Ted at November 15, 2008 09:10 PM
Sadly it won't make a difference, regardless. We'll see his smug face for the next 4 years. We'll see him run our debt into the ground and he'll blame it on everyone but himself. Hopenchange right?
Who can give that many promises and not let us down?
I can't say i'm not looking forward to it. Hello again president carter. :)
Posted by: coldmexican at November 17, 2008 12:20 AM
In my opinion, he's already spent way too much time and way too much money keeping America ignorant of his birth circumstance.
Just as you need to pass the written test and the road test to obtain your driver's liscence, you need to win the electoral college as well as pass Constitutional muster to be the president.
So he aced the road test. Why is he postponing the rest?
And by my reading of Amendment XX Section III, Scrappy Joe Biden (God love him) would be the next President in the case of Barack's DQ:
http://tinyurl.com/6lxfna
Posted by: ATNorth at November 19, 2008 12:39 AM