Search This Blog

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Here is the reason

Here is the reason that the GOP and almost all "conservative" pundits cheerfully join the Dems in demonizing anyone so uncouth as to point out that, by definition, as one of his parents was not a US citizen, one Barack Hussein Obama simply cannot be a natural born US citizen, and is thus Constitutionally barred from occupying the office of President of the United States of America -- "... (born May 28, 1971) ... His parents ... had emigrated to the United States in 1956 and were later naturalized as U.S. citizens in 1975."

Did not Someone once point out that those who will not honor the fine points of the Law will not honor the large? As the GOP seems willing *always* to "compromise" with the Dems over the finer points of honoring the US Constitution, who but a fool will ever expect them to stand firm (much less consistently) for honoring the major points?

5 comments:

Crude said...

I'm too tired to look it up. (But not too tired to comment. Go figure.) Isn't it the case that if you're born in the US, no matter where you're from, you're automatically a US citizen?

Obama the anchor baby!

Ilíon said...

I didn't say that Rubio (or Obama!) in not a US citizen ... though, I have no good reason to believe that Obama is, in fact, a US citizen, and reason to suspect that he isn't.

I said that neither is a natural born US citizen. A senator isn't required by the Constitution to be a natural born US citizen, but merely to be a US citizen. But, the president (and VP) are required by the Constitution to be a natural born US citizen.

Crude said...

Right. Same deal though. I thought it was, legally, "born in the US, no matter what, and you're a US citizen"? Or are you arguing the interpretation of the law that allows that view is wrong?

Ilíon said...

Were the Founders stupid? Did they commit to writing a distinction that doesn't even exist?

Regardless of whether they were patriots or mere partisan shills, were the Democrats who objected, on these very grounds, to Chester Arthur as vice-president (and shortly after president) stupid?

A decade previous to that, were the Supreme Court justices who noted and discussed in writing the difference between a citizen and a natural born citizen stupid?

Ilíon said...

Being a natural born US citizen isn't a matter of where one was born -- John McCain is a natural born citizen, regardless of the fact that he was not born in the US.

Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, and Bobby Jindal (the GOP's other reason for giving Obama a pass on his Constitutional ineligibility) may be US citizens by right of having been born on US soil, but they are not, nor can be, natural born US citizens.