Posted by
Mike on Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:34:15 PM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
In the previous post, Barry Obama's fraud in running as a Democrat
candidate for President was discussed. It might be added that there is
evidence of Obama's foreign birth in Kenya introduced in the case of
Barnett et al. vs. Obama.
Depending on the outcome of this case, Obama may not only be ineligible
to serve as President, but may be subject to deportation back to Kenya
if it is found that he was actually born there. There is also some
question as to whether Obama had prior knowledge of his foreign birth,
if indeed that was the case, before running for President.
The
Fourteenth Amendment's definition of U.S. citizenship to cover all
persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, cannot reasonably be construed to broaden the citizenship
requirements for federal public office enunciated in Article II,
Section 1 of the Constitution. Moreover, any subsequent Congressional
statute can have no bearing on the classification as a "natural born
citizen" of Article II, Section 1, insofar as the legislative branch
has no authority pursuant to the Tenth Amendment to redefine this
terminology or to expand the class of persons eligible to serve as
President or Vice-President.
In American history, Chester Arthur
was never qualified to serve as Vice-President under Garfield, nor as
President after Garfield's death in 1881. Timely objections were raised
based upon his father being born in Ireland and not having been
naturalized at the time of Chester's birth in 1829.
Barry
Goldwater was not eligible to serve as President when he ran in 1964,
because at the time of his birth in 1909, the Arizona Territory was not
a state within the Union.
John McCain was not eligible when he
ran for President in 2008 because he is a Panamanian citizen born in
Panama in 1936. Furthermore, he is not qualified to serve in the United
States Senate.
None of this has anything to do with fairness.
It is about limited, constitutional government. Even if Obama was born
in Hawaii in 1961 as he contends, this only makes him an ordinary
citizen pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment. He is still ineligible to
serve as President by virtue of his not being a natural born citizen
within the meaning of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution at the
time of its ratification in 1787.