Reading the Constitution...
Article 2, section 1, last paragraph: "Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.'"
"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; ..."
The only definition of "natural born citizen" that makes sense of this clause's phrasing comes from someone the Founding Fathers were known to have referenced; Vattel.
Vattel's definition of natural born citizen is "a citizen born of citizen parents".
That is, to be President, at the time of your birth your parents must have been citizens of one form or another.
Obama's father was a British subject at the time of his birth. Making him ineligible to hold the office.
The reason Vattel's definition is the correct one is very simple to understand when you know the circumstances of the War of Independence...
King George III was the first British monarch of that name... who spoke English as his first language. He was the head of the Hapsburg dynasty. Y'know... Germans. aka, Not-English.
A century and a quarter later, Queen Victoria's grandson was Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.
The situation had existed for centuries that the aristocracy of Europe was more loyal to their fellow aristocrats than to the individual countries over which they ruled.
The whole point of clause 5 only makes sense if that point is to ensure there are no mixed loyalties in the White House.
It’s a simple Job, uphold the constitution; not easy, but simple. O never intended to that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkpdNtTgQ...
Our president might be a constitutional scholar, but it is in the opposite way we think. It is the opposite of of ourselves having studied the Communist Manifesto and finding fault. He finds fault in our constitution and seems to embrace its antithesis... I believe it should be treasonous to take such an oath and then undermine it. We have many also in congress that deserve such an assessment...
'Know thine enemy'...and for Obama, that is our Constitution.
I sincerely hope that the GOP stands their ground, and gives no quarter....
This could be the decisive battle for The Republic.
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
Maximilien Robespierre
"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance."
Walt Whitman
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
James Madison
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
Thomas Jefferson
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
Thomas Jefferson
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
Edmund Burke
I use this as my homepage. I like the quotes.