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Allowing
the question of Obama's identity to slide easily into the
night unanswered would be another admission that we the governed have
no power
over our governors. An admission that the Alinsky gambit of
ridiculing dissent into silence is a legitimate tool in our
national debate. Right Side
News's The
Mysterious Case of Obama’s Identity is a thoughtful
examination of where we're at, and how we got there (but not
why).
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[...] One involves the
biggest unsolved mystery in American history: If Arpaio’s findings are
correct, who did it? The other potential crisis, while linked to the
first, is much more transparent. The U.S. Constitution lays out three
criteria for president and vice president. Article II, Section 1,
requires that the president be at least 35 years of age, have lived 14
years in the United States, and be a “natural-born” citizen.
Jay:
Man, we ain't got time for
this cover-up bullshit! I don't know whether or not you've forgotten,
but there's an Arquillian Battle Cruiser that's about to...
Kay:
There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray,
or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this
miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with
their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT! - -Men in Black
The Constitution doesn’t
define “natural born”, but according to common law at the time and,
later, the 1875 U.S. Supreme Court case “Minor v. Happersett”, a
“natural born” citizen is understood to be someone born in the U.S. to
citizen parents (plural). “Minor” spelled out this definition and is
thus the signal case.
It is remarkable that in
mid-2008, as Barack Obama was clinching the presidential nomination,
references to the “Minor” case inexplicably disappeared from 25 related
U.S. Supreme Court decisions archived at Justia.com, a leading legal
search engine popular with journalists and legal bloggers. Coincidence?
When attorney and blogger Leo Donofrio, whose Obama eligibility
challenge went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2008
(dismissed), discovered this apparent tampering in 2011, Justia called
it a “programming error”. The blogosphere called it “Justiagate”. The
media, of course, said nothing at all. [...] Full
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