“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States” Article II Section I, Constitution, United States of America
That’s quite a plain and straightforward set of requirements for those seeking to be President–just three little things. You would think we would never have a problem with anyone trying to sneak past these points, but I’m sad to say we do.
One of the grandest myths of the past couple of years is the lie that Barack Obama has proven his eligibility to be President–he has done no such thing, nor has he been called upon to do so by those in authority. The lie that Obama has proven himself is repeated ad nauseam by the mouths of the leftist media and Washington spokesmen. I marvel at the vicious passion they display on this topic.
But, guess what! It’s not just those on the left, but also many on the right, who treat the subject of Obama’s eligibility as kryptonite. I assume they fear being painted as nutjobs, or maybe they fear something worse happening to them. Why? Because the left has waged a massive, blaring campaign to discredit and demean the many millions of Americans who ask the simple question, “Where was Barack Obama born?” It is an amazing thing to see how the left, and some on the right, go into rabid overdrive when this subject is broached.
Barack Obama's certificate of live birth as released by his campaign to Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos website. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Please don’t repeat the big lie to me that the online image of that computer-generated document proves Obama was born in Hawaii. It does not. Assuming it is a legitimate document, it only proves that Obama was born alive, but it does not establish where he was born, since Hawaii would issue those certifications to babies born outside of the United States. Nor do two newspaper announcements establish where he was born.
If he was born in the United States, why all the secrecy? If he was born in the U.S., it is possible that he renounced his U.S. citizenship at some point, which would nullify his eligibility to be president. At the very least, he would have been born with dual citizenship, as his father was a British subject at the time of Obama’s birth, making Obama Constitutionally ineligible to be president. Understand that I am not claiming to know where Obama was born. I do not know. What I do know is that he is hiding something quite significant...
