Sunday, May 1, 2011

It is time to write to your Congressional representative and senator...

In The Manchurian President, authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott wrote:
What is immediately clear, however, is that, if Obama’s parents are indeed Dunham and Obama Sr., then Obama was the son of an American mother and a father who was a citizen of Kenya, and thus a British subject, in 1961. It is undisputed that Obama’s father was not a U.S. citizen, a face that should have led to congressional debate about whether Obama is eligible under the United States Constitution to serve as president.
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Like much of President Obama’s life, the facts surrounding the politicians’ birth and childhood years are clouded in mystery. None of the issues, known or unknown, that might raise legal questions about his Constitutional eligibilioty to serve as president have been explored in any depth by the U.S. government or the mainstream news media. Naturally, if a sitting president were subsequently found to have been ineligible to hold that office, it would precipitate a profound political crisis.
On July 25th, 1787, John Jay wrote to George Washington, then Presiding Officer of the Constitutional Convention:
“Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American Army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.”
The Convention agreed and without debate the provision suggested by Jay was written into the Constitution.
That Jay’s advice was taken is not surprising because in his career Jay was President of the Continental Congress, Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1st Chief Justice of the United States, Ambassador to Spain and France, Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Secretary of State) and Governor of New York, among other things. He wasn’t a man whose advice could be ignored. Note that what particularly concerned Jay was not a political issue but a military issue arising because the President is Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. He was bothered by issues of National Security.”
It is time to write to your Congressional representative and senator and tell him or her that you want them to request that the Congressional Research Service research Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution to determine what the drafters intended when they wrote “natural born citizen”. You can reach them directly through GradeGov.com
Go. Git.

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