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Justices turn aside another challenge over Obama's citizenship

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Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has again cast aside an appeal that raised doubts about President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a grass-roots legal issue that has gained little legal or political footing, but continues to persist in the courts.
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You know, I am quite shocked by this decision.............

Not shocked on how SCOTUS ruled, but shocked that they were able to make their ruling without laughing to death. :mrgreen:

Article is here.
 
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This is no surprise but it will lead to more speculation, not less. I believe we need a law the requires that anyone running for this office be required to prove citizenship beyond any doubt so that his issue never come up again.

I would be funny as hell that once he's out of office it were proven that the reason he has hidden all of his records is that they prove without any doubt he was really born in Kenya, and that through out school he wasn't an under achiever, but a poor student who barely made it from one grade to the next.

I think there would be a lot of people who would never be able to live that down.
 
Councilman said:
This is no surprise but it will lead to more speculation, not less. I believe we need a law the requires that anyone running for this office be required to prove citizenship beyond any doubt so that his issue never come up again.
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Then WHAT ELSE should candidates be required to prove beyond a doubt?

We already have that, they are called background investigations. I just had mine done for the, trust me, there is no hiding anything from them. You can bet that the president's background check is more than thorough for the type of clearance he has to have. If there was something unconstitutional about him being in office, it would have been revealed before he even thought about running.
 
Councilman said:
This is no surprise but it will lead to more speculation, not less. I believe we need a law the requires that anyone running for this office be required to prove citizenship beyond any doubt so that his issue never come up again.

I would be funny as hell that once he's out of office it were proven that the reason he has hidden all of his records is that they prove without any doubt he was really born in Kenya, and that through out school he wasn't an under achiever, but a poor student who barely made it from one grade to the next.

I think there would be a lot of people who would never be able to live that down.
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Straw man - Obama's citizenship was ALREADY PROVEN beyond a doubt, and that is backed up by a Republican Governor.
 
danarhea said:
Straw man - Obama's citizenship was ALREADY PROVEN beyond a doubt, and that is backed up by a Republican Governor.
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So why did it take so long for him to produce a birth certificate? He still won't show his college transcripts.
 
Hatuey said:
.... So... now the problem is the time it took? Maybe he didn't give two ****s about all the insane people who think he's not a citizen.
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...or that his father is a polygamist. You're right.
 
Obama is not disqualified on the basis of citizenship. He is disqualified on the basis of his incompetence and radical social justice ideology.
 
Erod said:
So why did it take so long for him to produce a birth certificate? He still won't show his college transcripts.
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Neither will Bush, but I never saw you giving him a hard time over that, hypocrite. :mrgreen:
 
danarhea said:
Neither will Bush, but I never saw you giving him a hard time over that, hypocrite. :mrgreen:
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Bush's college grades are well known

If Sham Wow was serious about maintaining his academic privacy why did we hear reams about his successful Harvard Law career but we don't hear what he did at Occidental and Columbia. The WSJ noted obama didn't graduate with even basic honors so its pretty safe to believe he got into HLS purely because of his race since his grades were way below the mean and median GPA (I doubt any whites made it in with a 3.2 or lower.

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I've heard that the Bamster didn't publish any articles while he was editor of the Harvard Law Review. If that's true isn't that unusual for a law review editor to go unpublished?
 
TurtleDude said:
Bush's college grades are well known

If Sham Wow was serious about maintaining his academic privacy why did we hear reams about his successful Harvard Law career but we don't hear what he did at Occidental and Columbia. The WSJ noted obama didn't graduate with even basic honors so its pretty safe to believe he got into HLS purely because of his race since his grades were way below the mean and median GPA (I doubt any whites made it in with a 3.2 or lower.

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Not that it really matters, but I am pretty to graduate w/ a disinction you have to get better than a 3.7, at least were I go to school. I don't know how it works at columbia.
 
danarhea said:
You know, I am quite shocked by this decision.............

Not shocked on how SCOTUS ruled, but shocked that they were able to make their ruling without laughing to death. :mrgreen:

Article is here.
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When you first read through this section of the Constitution it reads as if it's referring to the time at which the Constitution was ratified - rather than a "current" reference to when/where they were born - thus - no one was alive at *that* time and therefor it doesn't matter anymore.
of course i know that's not what it's interpreted to mean.

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.
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Aunt Spiker said:
When you first read through this section of the Constitution it reads as if it's referring to the time at which the Constitution was ratified - rather than a "current" reference to when/where they were born - thus - no one was alive at *that* time and therefor it doesn't matter anymore.
of course i know that's not what it's interpreted to mean.
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Damn, you just gave the birthers more ammunition for another lawsuit. Since Obama was not born "at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution", he could therefore not have been a citizen "at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution". Obama is therefore not a citizen. Get a lawyer, preferably an ambulance chaser. Orly Taitz will do, providing that she has not been disbarred yet. :mrgreen:
 
Councilman said:
This is no surprise but it will lead to more speculation, not less. I believe we need a law the requires that anyone running for this office be required to prove citizenship beyond any doubt so that his issue never come up again.
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And how do you do that? Because no mattter what produced there's always going to be some conspiracy nutballs that think its fake or not real or a cover up and that they have a doubt.
 
danarhea said:
Neither will Bush, but I never saw you giving him a hard time over that, hypocrite. :mrgreen:
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Why should someone's college transcripts matter? Are you not sure he actually went to college or something?
 
danarhea said:
Damn, you just gave the birthers more ammunition for another lawsuit. Since Obama was not born "at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution", he could therefore not have been a citizen "at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution". Obama is therefore not a citizen. Get a lawyer, preferably an ambulance chaser. Orly Taitz will do, providing that she has not been disbarred yet. :mrgreen:
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:rofl Funny, isn't it?
 
Aunt Spiker said:
When you first read through this section of the Constitution it reads as if it's referring to the time at which the Constitution was ratified - rather than a "current" reference to when/where they were born - thus - no one was alive at *that* time and therefor it doesn't matter anymore.
of course i know that's not what it's interpreted to mean.
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It's not how it's interpreted because that's not at all what it means.
 
Deuce said:
It's not how it's interpreted because that's not at all what it means.
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I know - I was just saying how it's written can come across differently :)
 
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