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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

Got a lot of traction, too, I suppose?

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
Is that honestly the only reason you can think of? Do you base every thing you do on the color of the other persons skin? Or are you just parroting the same lines you keep hearing from the other idiots out there?

No, it's more that this eligibility fuss only seems to have kicked off with the election of a mulatto. It's about the only form of attack that Starr and Gringrich didn't use on Clinton, after all. I suppose it's possible that there isn't a racial element to all this nonsense, but it's a lot more likely that there is.

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I have no idea what the purpose of the innuendo is, but it didn't result in SCOTUS finding it necessary......

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ORIGINAL: RacerJim
Demoncraps challenged McCain's eligibilty in 2000, and again in 2008 several months before anyone challeged Obama's eligibility.

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

Because, first of all, we really should start sometime, and continue as a matter of routine. Why not now?
Secondly, there are legitimate questions about 0bama0, and a need for the defintion of NBC. Now.

If the states want proof... fine.
I agree the SC needs to define what NBC is... they have deliberately chosen not too.
I do NOT agree with making the birth records public.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Article I.
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

Article II
Section 1.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

So, while it might be interesting to know what a natural born Citizen is, by having SCOTUS sift thru INS law and summarize it, rather than screwing around with the current  POTUS, who we all agree has better things to do, and since in any and every dictionary including Blacks Law the connective OR  means that one or the other is necessary and sufficiet, and he is certainly a citizen of the United States (based soley on his mother being an American Citizen, that is the necessary and sufficient condition, regardless if there are others, which there are...)

Wouldn't it serve the public interest equally to bring suit against 'Dutch' Reagan?

 

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What if a State required proof prior to the 2008 election?

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What if that State was Hawaii?

What if the Democratic Party of Hawaii provided proof in 2000 and 2004 but not in 2008?

What if the birth record made public by a candidate elected POTUS was never verified as authentic by any official of the issuing State?

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What if the birth record made public by a candidate elected POTUS would not suffice as prima-facie documentation by the issuing State's Department of Home Lands?

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Dan Rather, who carried on in Walter Cronkites tradition, was caught trying to fake some very personal papers that supposedly discussed George W. Bush's service records, the point being that  President Bush's service records (which have no legal bearing on a mans fitness to serve)  were thought of by leftists as fair game at the time, right?

But this, something thats a constitutional requirement, isnt fair game?

I call bullshit.

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

That seems to be self-contradictory.
To what star chamber should proof of meeting the definition be presented?
By what thinking is making such information public too high a price for an individual to pay in order to run for POTUS. Doesn't making the proof public amount to a candle flickering on the face of the sun in comparison to the other costs of running?

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Dan Rather, who carried on in Walter Cronkites tradition, was caught trying to fake some very personal papers that supposedly discussed George W. Bush's service records, the point being that  President Bush's service records (which have no legal bearing on a mans fitness to serve)  were thought of by leftists as fair game at the time, right?

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

I didnt miss anything, the or applies to either clause and the peroration inherits the or.

Nothing novel about it and why Scalia's little hints were grasping at straws for you.

Apparently the epic fail would lie with the four strikes crowd and not with those of us who understand the meaning of or.  

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

Because, first of all, we really should start sometime, and continue as a matter of routine. Why not now?
Secondly, there are legitimate questions about 0bama0, and a need for the defintion of NBC. Now.

If the states want proof... fine.
I agree the SC needs to define what NBC is... they have deliberately chosen not too.
I do NOT agree with making the birth records public.

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Because no other President ever had such a dark complexion would be my guess.
(God only knows what they'd whining about if Hilary had got the nomination...)

Actually, the only reason Obama is going through this is because he is a Democrat.  The people on the right side of the aisle are simply using any means available to try to discredit him, and this is one of the things they have latched onto to try to achieve their goal.  If Obama was a Republican president you would not be hearing anything at all from these people.  It wasn't too long ago that a lot of right-wingers were actually wanting to change the laws so that Arnold could run for president weren't they?  It seems that the sanctity of being a "natural born citizen" is only important to them when it suits their needs.

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Obama has yet to prove he is a citizen, never mind a "natural born Citizen"