That pesky Constitutional ‘thing’

Nosing around the news this morning and found this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139758/posts

... which lead me to read this:

http://lawreview.kentlaw.edu/articles/81-1/Herlihy.pdf

Notice as you read Sarah Herlihy’s article that she eludes to race throughout insinuating (without giving a good reason why she makes that assumption) that Americans don’t want to change the Constitution of the United States because they are racist. That seems to be a theme of the Democratic Party since they ‘changed’.

 

Limiting presidential eligibility to natural born citizens discriminates against naturalized citizens, is outdated and undemocratic, and incorrectly assumes that birthplace is a proxy for loyalty. 

 

And the question from me is “who cares if naturalized citizens can’t be president?”  Discrimination?  C’mon, it’s the Constitution… and we should change it so that Arnie can run for president???  Or are they talking about Obama?  He isn’t mentioned by name but the writer, Sarah Herlihy, is working for a law firm in Chicago that works closely with Senator (now President-Elect) Obama.  Many of the points made in Sarah’s article were also made during the recent presidential campaign.  Looks like we’re all going to become global citizens whether we like it or not…. funny, I don’t see other countries inviting Americans to run for office in their countries!

Some of the points Sarah makes to explain how ignorant and racist the American people are:

• Many Americans fear change.
• …opponents of a Constitutional amendment argue that even if it makes logical sense to allow naturalized citizens to be eligible for the presidency, the natural born citizen clause simply does not affect enough people to justify a constitutional amendment.
• ….the fear of foreigners amongst Americans has increased in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
• Along the same lines as a generalized fear of foreigners, opponents of a constitutional amendment argue that foreign-born citizens should not be eligible for the presidency because foreign-born citizens retain an emotional attachment and a sense of loyalty to their homelands.
• Additionally, Americans may oppose amending the Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to run for president because they do not understand the difference between being a natural born citizen and being a naturalizedcitizen. Specifically, they do not understand what it takes to become a naturalized citizen.
• It is an unfortunate truth that many Americans are racist. Although tremendous progress has been made in race relations throughout this country’s history, and especially within the last fifty years, racism continues to exist in American politics. For example, black candidates rarely generate enough votes to be elected, and researchers believe that this is primarily because white voters are reluctant to vote for a black candidate. This reluctance to vote for a non-white candidate may cause voters to oppose amending the natural born citizen clause because they fear that this is a first step toward having someone who is not white occupying the White House. This fear is irrational because non-white citizens are just as capable of being president as white citizens, and non-white natural born citizens, under the existing language of Article II, are eligible to be president. Despite these facts, it is possible that some Americans will oppose a Constitutional amendment because of their racist beliefs.
• …Americans may oppose a Constitutional amendment because this type of change would signal to the rest of the world that America is willing to be one country of many and that Americans are interested in becoming part of a global world culture.
• …some Americans may believe that any change to the requirements for presidential eligibility will begin to chip away at the traditions and values of America that the presidency represents. Although this may seem like an irrational reason for not abolishing discrimination against naturalized citizens, Americans may find that the symbolism behind the presidency is more important than the limited discrimination that the natural born citizen provision causes.
• Logical Americans are looking for a reason to ignore the rational reasons promoted by globalization so that they may vote based on their own emotions and instincts. Whether it is because of fear, racism, religious intolerance, or blind faith in the decisions of the Founding Fathers, Americans want to find a way to avoid changing the natural born citizen provision to allow naturalized citizens to be eligible for the presidency.

I understand that the Supreme Court will review a case brought in NJ by a lawyer by the name of Leo Donofrio. He contends that because Obama on his fight the smears website admits to being born a British citizen that he is ineligible to become POTUS.  

http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/leo-donofrio-v-wells-case-and-the-presidency-now-rest-in-the-hands-of-the-nine-supreme-court-justices/

 

Okay, one more post….

… but only because this Onion video touched my heart on such a deep level…

 

My feelings exactly…

Sorry for not posting for a couple of months, but there was a death in the family and it made everything else seem inconsequential… to me at least.  Thought I would say goodbye by posting this video by George Carlin.

I wish the country and all you good people who did your best to open people’s eyes the best of luck in the future.  

 

Obama’s Paki Connection

UPDATE: From Slim guy:  Who was Senator Obama’s host in Pakistan? The Friday Times broke this story in early March and revealed the host to be none other than Mian Muhammadian Soomro, the caretaker prime minister.

Obama’s background just gets curiouser and curiouser. I am still stumped as to how Dr. Al-Mansour came to mentor Barack Hussein Obama before he attended Harvard. How did Obama come to know Dr. Khalid al Mansour, Senior Advisor, HRH Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal,  and where did Obama get the money for his long strange trip? For a “poor, starving, student” Obama sure had/has a collection of  rich, wealthy and politically connected muslims all over the world. 

How is it that Obama had these dark powerful connections in his youth while, at the same time, his brother George subsists on a dollar a month?

There is much we do not know about this man.

Atlas Shrugs: Obama’s Paki Connection.

I can’t say this enough. We need to question Obama about this stuff in this article at Atlas Shrugs. No one ever does an exposé about Obama yet I’ve seen the news media pull together the background and do an hour on Clark Rockefeller recently. What’s up with that? Shouldn’t Obama’s background, his college transcripts be more important to show the public than some weasly murderer who’s now in jail?

I think anyone who is going to vote for Obama should demand to see what he’s hiding before they vote for him. It’s up to you, folks. Why are you voting for that guy when he has no experience and has exhibited secretive behavior?

 

Compulsory Slavery? 911 Presidential Forum on Service

All this talk of mandatory service,  civilian, mandatory, peace corp, americore, McCain is having none of it.

How did we get here? Of all the critical topics on the national and international stage, mandatory service? What’s the big deal, most of us volunteer in one way or another. IT IS POSITIVELY UNAMERICAN TO FORCE AMERICANS TO WORK FOR NOTHING.

This is the stupidest and scariest development of the campaign yet. They said it was a “non-partisan” but the questioners are clearly pushing an agenda.

Atlas Shrugs: WTF is this? Compulsory Slavery? 911 Presidential Forum on Service .

While I watched this so-called ‘forum’ at Columbia U. (Obama’s alma mater) I wondered what the point of this was.  National service is one of Obama’s plans for America when he’s the ‘decider’. Why do people think this is a good idea?

This was a complete setup for Obama to make his points. McCain nailed it… no forced national service.

 

Kos – they think WTC Memorial is silly???

“All this 9/11 worship is ghoulish and downright silly. Some Brit on b3ta.com is even making fun of our pompous charade.” From Daily Kos.com

 

Disgusting and outrageous

 

Obama’s favorite blogger, the one who first published his fake birth certificate, has gone over the edge. Kos has deleted the article they published but Radarsite has the cartoon and comments like the above that were on Daily Kos.  Disgusting and childish. Yet Kos continues to be Obama’s ‘voice’.

What could possibly make Kos think that this would be a good post after so many American families lost loved ones on 9/11? Are they in fact un-American themselves? Is that why Obama was obviously uncomfortable at the 9/11 Memorial in NYC and is it why Michelle didn’t show up?

There’s more to Obama than we know. How can he and Michelle represent our country if they hate the American people?

 

The Corner on National Review Online

Yep. The day after 9/11, as part of its “get tough” makeover, the Obama campaign is mocking John McCain for not using a computer, without caring why he doesn’t use a computer. From the AP story about the computer illiterate ad:

“Our economy wouldn’t survive without the Internet, and cyber-security continues to represent one our most serious national security threats,” [Obama spokesman Dan] Pfeiffer said. “It’s extraordinary that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.”

Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by “extraordinary.” The reason he doesn’t send email is that he can’t use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000):

The Corner on National Review Online.

Obama has been mocking McCain’s disability and people would like him to stop doing that.

 

Ground Zero etiquette: A tale of two roses

It’s a small gesture, but gestures matter at the hallowed grave site of so many murdered innocent Americans.

Barack Obama flings a memorial rose at Ground Zero like he’s a kid tossing pennies into a fountain at the shopping mall — or a spectator tossing flowers at a bullfight.

He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

(Clueless NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg copies him.)

By contrast, John McCain and his wife kneel and gently, somberly, place their roses down at the foot of the 9/11 tribute.

Michelle Malkin » Ground Zero etiquette: A tale of two roses .

There’s video at Michelle Malkin’s blog too so click on the link and watch to see what she’s talking about.  Shows the difference between the two men.

And yes, where was Michelle???

 

Obama only talks good game on gender pay equity

Obama’s commitment to federally mandated pay equity stretches from the Rockies to Wall Street and beyond. And yet it seems to have eluded his Senate office. Compensation figures for his legislative staff reveal that Obama pays women just 83 cents for every dollar his men make.

A watchdog group called LegiStorm posts online the salaries for Capitol Hill staffers. “We have no political affiliations and no political purpose except to make the workings of Congress as transparent as possible,” its website explains. Parsing LegiStorm’s official data, gleaned from the Secretary of the Senate, offers a fascinating glimpse at pay equity in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

The most recent statistics are for the half-year from Oct. 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008, excluding interns and focusing on full-time personnel. For someone who worked only until, say, last Feb. 29, extrapolating up to six months’ service simplifies this analysis. Doubling these half-year figures illustrates how a year’s worth of Senate employees’ paychecks should look.

Based on these calculations, Obama’s 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of $1,523,120. Thus, Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397.

Obama’s 30 female employees split $1,354,580 among themselves, or $45,152, on average.

Why this disparity?

Obama only talks good game on gender pay equity.

Another example of Obama saying one thing and doing another! There’s more at the link.

 

McCain/Palin Ahead – Unbelievable!

It’s so much fun reading the newspapers these days. The Sarah surge continues to dominate all the political news, while the Palin-McCain — er, McCain-Palin — ticket is forging ahead in the polls.

But let’s be fair. Even though Sen. McCain is now riding Gov. Palin’s skirt tails, he was the one who made the brilliant decision to put her on the ticket. And the louder the left screams, the better Sarah seems to do. So much better that for the first time the Intrade pay-to-play prediction market — which long has had Barack Obama winning by 20 to 25 points in November — now shows a McCain lead. Unbelievable.

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Lawrence Kudlow has written this fact-filled and entertaining article about Palin and how she has energized the campaign. Click the link and read all about it.