Comments on: The Constitution meets Politics in Tennessee

By: Public Servant

Public Servant — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:50:43 +0000

Wouldn’t we feel better if we knew the person who’s running the country into the ground w/ bailouts & deficit spending, saddling our children w/ staggering debt and giving foreign terrorists Miranda rights- was actually Constitutionally (legally) entitled to be President? Nixon was pushed out of office for a cover-up of a 2nd rate botched burglary- this cover-up (concealing birth documents) involves Obama directly- and how many others in his cabal?

By: KJ

KJ — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:46:48 +0000

I think that Berg has already tried that route.

By: Joe The Blogger

Joe The Blogger — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:25:26 +0000

I agree TexomaEd. Whichever one got it wrong, I wondered if the motivation was to ‘muddy the waters’ to try to undermine the importance of the real ‘natural born Citizen’ requirement. Don’t forget many GOP hacks are trying to cover-up for the fact that John McCain is not a ‘natural born Citizen’ either.

By: RJJohnson

RJJohnson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:52:56 +0000

Do the Democrats really think this strategy is going to work? Paint all Republican candidates for office as “birthers” by asking them questions about Obama’s eligibility, then have the liberal press report the exchange and ridicule them. Is this how they intend to win elections? Give me a break.

By: Bob Porrazzo

Bob Porrazzo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:45:15 +0000

You should see the comments section of the Times News article…OBOTS EVERYWHERE! And I was thinking of moving to Tennessee to escape the progressiveness of CT.

By: TexomaEd

TexomaEd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:50:45 +0000

If they misquoted him, it was definitely for a reason. Webster’s dictionary defines native-born as “of a specified place by birth”. This term is all about where you are born and nothing about who your parents were. If being born in the US was all that mattered to our Founding Fathers, then they would have used the term “native-born”. But they did not because it also mattered that the parents be US citizens.

By: John Charlton

John Charlton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:46:14 +0000

Perhaps this is a legal avenue, which has not yet been tried. Is there a precedent?

By: P. Barnett

P. Barnett — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:39:15 +0000

Oh, and the one guy who wants to try to do the right thing doesn’t know the difference between a native born and natural born citizen and he is supposed to be a Constitutional attorney.. Maybe the person who quoted him got it wrong in translation.

By: P. Barnett

P. Barnett — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:37:04 +0000

Infuriating that these scumball politicians are aware that Obama is or potentially is breaking the law, but they are more than willing to commit misprision of fraud.

By: Joe The Blogger

Joe The Blogger — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:05:13 +0000

“According to the Nashville Scene, Mr. Davis began the exchange by suggesting that a state law be passed requiring that “in all future elections no candidate for president can be put on the ballot in Tennessee unless they produce positive proof they are a native-born citizen””.

It would be interesting to know if Mr Davis actually incorrectly said “native-born
citizen”, or if the Nashville Scene misquoted him, for one reason or another.

The actual term written in the original Constitution document is ‘natural born Citizen’ – exactly as I’ve written it here. We need to constantly ram home this message. The crucial issue is the original understanding of this term by the Framers of The Constitution. ALL of the evidence supports the meaning ‘Born in The USA to parents who were both Citizens of The USA at the time of the child’s birth’. The ORIGINAL INTENT of The Framers of The Constitution was to minimize the risk of “foreign influence” in the “Command in Chief” of the armed forces of The USA.