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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 doesnt matter where Obama was born because his father wasnt a U.S. citizen.
Media Matters noted in 2011 that while years of legal precedence rejects the argument that Obamas 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 nations failure to explore the constitutional problems inherent in Obamas 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 presidents future disregard for the supreme law of the United States.
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, Obamas very presidency could itself be unconstitutional. And the matter has nothing to do with where the president was born.
The nations failure to explore the constitutional problems inherent in Obamas 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 presidents future disregard for the supreme law of the United States.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-still-clinging-last-birther-hope#sthash.cvqpTweZ.dpuf
TexasTowelie
(112,056 posts)if Ted Cruz enters the presidential race.
Wounded Bear
(58,618 posts)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)despite the fact that the 16th Amendment has been around since 1913 and SCOTUS has recognized it ever since then. Dead-enders.