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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 03:23 PM Jul 2014

WND Still Clinging To Last Birther Hope

Having utterly failed in years of attempts to prove that President Obama was born overseas, WorldNetDaily is now turning to a backup plan, claiming that it doesn’t matter where Obama was born because his father wasn’t a U.S. citizen.

Media Matters noted in 2011 that while years of legal precedence rejects the argument that Obama’s noncitizen father disqualifies him from being a “natural born citizen,” birthers are “ clinging… like grim death” to the theory.”

WND reporter Aaron Klein writes today in an article titled, “Impeach Obama? Presidency Likely Illegal,” that “the nation’s failure to explore the constitutional problems inherent in Obama’s candidacy coupled with the failure of the legislative and judicial branches to conduct an investigation into the matter may have set the stage for the president’s future disregard for the supreme law of the United States.”

One central point seems to be missing from the national conversation about impeaching President Obama for alleged violations of the Constitution.

When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.

According to correspondence from the original framers of the Constitution as well as Supreme Court rulings, the legal writings that helped establish the principles of the Constitution and even a Senate resolution affirmed by Obama himself, Obama likely does not qualify for the constitutional requirement that stipulates only a “natural born” citizen can serve as U.S. president.

In other words, Obama’s very presidency could itself be unconstitutional. And the matter has nothing to do with where the president was born.

The nation’s failure to explore the constitutional problems inherent in Obama’s candidacy coupled with the failure of the legislative and judicial branches to conduct an investigation into the matter may have set the stage for the president’s future disregard for the supreme law of the United States.


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-still-clinging-last-birther-hope#sthash.cvqpTweZ.dpuf
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WND Still Clinging To Last Birther Hope (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2014 OP
I hope that they repost that article TexasTowelie Jul 2014 #1
In other words... Wounded Bear Jul 2014 #2
WND reminds me of people who claim income tax is illegal... steve2470 Jul 2014 #3

Wounded Bear

(58,618 posts)
2. In other words...
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 03:32 PM
Jul 2014

His paternal heritage is more important than his maternal heritage.

They do know that this would disqualify Ted Cruz, too, right?

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
3. WND reminds me of people who claim income tax is illegal...
Fri Jul 18, 2014, 03:46 PM
Jul 2014

despite the fact that the 16th Amendment has been around since 1913 and SCOTUS has recognized it ever since then. Dead-enders.

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