Sunday, July 20, 2008

NEITHER CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IS CERTIFIED

It is unfathomable that two candidates could be running for our nation's highest office with no formal certification of their basic constitutional qualifications to hold that office. It is quite certain that both candidates are qualified, but the New York Times has questioned John McCain's overseas birth. Moreover, Barack Obama has produced a birth certificate that is clearly phoney, perhaps fraudulent. Further, Obama has not made his medical records public as McCain has. Do your job, congress, provide a formal certification of these two candidates to hold the office of President of theUnited States! Congress is the place to challenge McCain’s or Obama’s qualifications to be President The New York Times has twice run articles questioning whether John McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone would disqualify him to be President based on Article II of the U.S. Constitution: “No Person except a natural born Citizen . . . shall be eligible to the Office of President”. “Natural born” is not defined. The blogosphere is ripe with speculation that Obama may also fail to meet the qualification, since his supporters posted online an inauthentic copy of a birth certificate purporting to be for Barack Obama. The allegations have raised the specter of a challenge to either candidate's eligibility to be President. Congress, not the courts are the constitutionally correct place to determine whether a President elect meets all of the qualifications to hold the Office of President. The place to challenge the qualifications of any Presidential candidate who wins the election would be in the United States Congress. The Constitution gives Congress the authority to oversee the counting of the electors’ ballots and to deal with cases where there is no clear qualified winner. Both Article II Section 1 and Amendment XII of the US Constitution call for President of the Senate to count the electors votes. There are procedures for Congress to make the choice if no one has a majority. Amendment XX has procedures for dealing with a situation where “the President elect shall have failed to qualify”. All the duties surrounding the issue of counting the electors ballots and selecting the President if no clear winner exits are designated to Congress, the courts have no role to play. It is not spelled out but if a challenge to a President’s qualifications were made at the time the electors’ votes are counted, Congress would have to deal with the issue. Evidence could be presented and testimony heard, then a decision would have to be made. There is nothing in the Constitution giving the courts authority to make the decision; lawyers think the courts are always the place for making decisions so they don’t think of other options that fit better with the structure of the Constitution. It does not matter whether the challenge is to the election of McCain, Obama or anyone else, the process would be the same. If the defect in the President’s qualifications were to come to light after the President was sworn in then the procedures for impeachment would be appropriate, since running for office in violation of the constitutional requirement for being a “natural born Citizen” would be high Crime or Misdemeanor. The Senate has already expressed the opinion that McCain is a “natural born Citizen” and eligible for the Office of the President. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) introduced the resolution during April of this year after the first New York Times article. There is no way that Congress is going to deny parents serving overseas the possibility that their children can become President so John McCain is safe. Obama might be required to present a Birth Certificate if his qualifications were challenged and then the issue would be resolved. For this election I don’ t think either candidate has anything to worry about but there needs to be a way to determine the qualifications of a President elect just to be certain that someone ineligible does not sneak through. All of the authority for counting the electors and dealing with a President elect who fails to qualify rest with Congress. Congress is the appropriate place to determine the President’s qualifications. There was a best selling book about how the Secret Service had to deal with the Clintons and the fact that Bill couldn't have gotten clearance to even go on a White House tour with his background. I don't know how much of a security risk he was before he was elected (the Secret Service usually exercises an ABUNDANCE of caution), but he sure has heck was responsible for the Chicoms getting our outdated missile guidance systems, taking campaign funds and he's still too hot for Hillary to be the Veep, as his dealings with the Middle East are somewhat suspect. HAT TIP TO FREEPERS http://freerepublic.com/

2 comments:

shannon said...

I will let you in a little secret, that news, hasn't bothered to tell anyone because they WON'T air anything that will help the republican party!
According to our CONSTITUTION,

NATURALIZED CITIZEN CAN NOT BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

***This is the law that protects us, from every person getting in here to have babies, just for citizenship.

Barack Obama is not a legal U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between December 24, 1952, to November 13, 1986. Federal Law requires that the office of President requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents. This is what exempts John McCain, though he was born in the US Panama Canal Zone.

US Law very clearly states:
‘ If only one parent is a U.S. Citizen at the time of one’s birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for minimum ten years, five of which must be after the age of 18.’

Barack Obama’s father was not a U.S. Citizen is a fact.

Obama’s mother was only 18 when Obama was born. This means even though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen of Hawaii being a territory), his mother fails the test for at-least-5-years- prior-to Barack Obama’s birth, but-after-age-16.

In essence, Mother alone is not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship. At most, 2 years elapsed from his mother turning 16 to the time of Barack Obama’s birth when she was 18. His mother would have needed to have been 16 + 5 = 21 years old at the time of Barack Obama’s birth for him to be a natural-born citizen. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at the time his mother would have needed to be to allow him natural citizenship from his only U.S. Citizen parent. Obama should have been naturalized as a citizen . . but that would disqualify him from holding the office.

THE CONSTITUTION CLEARLY DECLARES:

Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President. Though Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, any other information does not matter because his mother is the one who must fulfill the requirement to be a U.S. Citzen for 10 years prior to his birth on August 4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after age 16.

Further, Obama may have had to have remained in the USA for some time frame to protect any citizenship he might have had, rather than living in Indonesia. This is very clear cut and a glaring violation of U.S. Election law. I think the Governor Schwarzenegger of California should be very interested in discovering if Obama is allowed to be elected President without being a natural-born U.S. Citizen, since this would set a precedent. Stay tuned to your TV sets because I suspect some of this information will be leaking through over the next several days.

AS FAR AS McCAIN IS CONCERNED:
The terms of citizenship are interpreted very strictly. A President must be a natural born citizen, meaning that immigrants are not eligible to run for President, no matter how long they have lived in the United States. If a child of American citizens is born abroad, he or she is technically considered a natural born citizen, and can therefore hold Presidential office. In addition, a Presidential candidate must have actually lived in the United States for at least 14 years, presumably so that he or she is aware of general issues which impact the American populace.

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