Just when you thought the story of President Obama’s birth certificate was solved, looniness rears its ugly head right here in Virginia. Is Obama a ‘natural-born US citizen’? I am 100% sure he is, but there is at least one person that thinks that this is a litmus test issue for the upcoming Attorney General of Virginia campaign of John Brownlee, a Republican running for that office.
Among other issues such as Life and Traditional Marriage, I addressed a concern I had regarding the Constitutional requirement that a President be a “natural born citizen”. This Constitutional issue concerning Barack Obama has been completely ignored by…well, by everyone who has the power to do something about it.
I pointed out how this was an issue for Senator McCain last spring and right or wrong, the Senate unanimously* passed a resolution (SRS 511) declaring Senator McCain was “natural born” partly because he was born to US Citizen parents (PLURAL…both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth). Yet when questions arose concerning Obama’s “natural born” citizenship, everybody was silent…and still is.
Obama readily admits his father was not a US citizen at his birth. He readily admits he had dual citizenship at birth. How can he be considered a “natural born” citizen (I’m not saying he’s not a US citizen, I’m saying there is serious doubt over him being “natural born”) when both of his parents were not US citizens? There was also grave concern over Obama’s hiding his vault copy of his Birth Certificate. Even with that aside, there is clearly a concern over this Constitutional requirement.
Now, I am no Constitutional scholar or anything, but even I know that Barack Obama is not an immigrant. For one thing, a distinction is being made here that sure, his mother was a citizen…but…
For the party that usually concerns itself with so-called ‘anchor babies’, this seems a little strange. Isn’t this the reverse? Is this person actually saying that since President Obama had only one parent who was a citizen, that he is not natural-born? I am giving myself a headache. I have to admit, I hadn’t seen this wrinkle before. The birthers, as they are widely called, are down to one court case to prove their assertion that President Obama is not qualified to be President of the United States.
Here, let me have the blogger continue with the daydream:
What was Brownlee’s reply? Well, Mr. Obama is our president now, and we need to focus on the issues…that’s where the debate needs to be. WHAT?
When I learned that this man was a Federal Prosecutor and he demonstrated to me this kind of apathy towards defending the Constitution and seeking the truth in the matter, I was appalled. While it seems that this man has a lot of good qualities, I don’t see how on earth anyone can vote for him as our next Attorney General, given his experience as a prosecutor and a military man (which he touts so readily) and his complete lack of concern for the Rule of Law…our US Constitution.
Now here is a couple of points for Mr. Brownlee, for seeing things like they are, you know, facts. There was one more sort of parenthetical insert at the end of the post:
*Point of Interest: The Co-Sponsors of this Senate Resolution included both Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama. Hmm. Makes me wonder if there was some political back-scratching here…we declare you Natural Born, you turn a deaf ear to BO’s Natural Born status…deal? Apparently so…because not a single Senator has stuck his/her neck out on this issue as it relates to Barack Obama.
(emphasis in all quotes appear in original)
There’s a reason for that, my dear fellow blogger. There is no problem to look into. I suggest a nice class on the Constitution. That should clear up your congestion.
May I suggest you continue reading and researching if you think the ‘birthers’ are DOWN on anything and if you think their last hope is just 1 remaining case – you need to fire up Google!
So you have no problem with Obama having continued loyalities to Kenya? Boy, I do!
When Obama travelled to Kenya (on my taxpaying dime) to campaign for a paternal relative (well after his 21st birthday) that screams of loyalty to me. My only other question would be – did he do so JUST out of paternal loyality or because Obama too, believes in Sharia Law?
Something to think about – AND the reason why the Framers of the Constitution wanted and insisted on a full generation of US Citizen for POTUS. Yes, his father precludes him from being a Natural Born Citizen. And depending what historical works you look at – some wouldn’t have even considered him to be a US Citizen due to his paternal heritage.
Sally,
I have no problem with what you wrote, because you obviously believe it.
Let me take these one at a time.
I do not have any problem with President Obama’s loyalties to his relatives in another country. Why would Kenya be any different than, say, Canada?
There is absolutely no evidence (including from you) that suggests that President Obama is a believer in ‘Sharia law’.
If you have any real evidence to present, then by all means, do so. But you sound like an uninformed person, or just unwilling to recognize that not everything you don’t like is some kind of conspiracy.
If ’some’ has a name, or names, and can be displayed here with evidence, then I welcome you to present it. But don’t come here claiming that ’some people’ think something, without proof, or at least the attribution to those who think it.
When I said the birthers are down to one case, I was speaking of the decision of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts agreeing to look at arguments in this case. All the other cases, by Alan Keyes, etc., have been thrown out of court.
If you think arguing about this is more important than healing our country after a long divisive criminal ‘administration’ during the proceeding presidency, then by all means, go right ahead. I can’t stop you, nor would I want to.
Other than that, welcome to my blog, and come back often!
Mark,
For now, just answer 3 questions? Tell us, Barack H. Obama’s father was the citizen of what country? What was his father’s name and where was he born? Simple questions deserves simple answers.
Don
I am not sure where you are going with this Don, but you seem like a smart guy. You could look up these answers yourself, but it would still not matter.
Question for you: Would Chief Justice John Roberts have sworn in the President if there was even a tiny problem with his citizenship?