Cold , "a feeling in one's bones" has no legal standing. A well written and imaginative piece of grandiose bullshit playing on fear an xenophobia. Hmmmm, should "play well" with conservative Republicans.
On Jul 31, 5:33 am, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote: > Obama's birth debate: It's about loyalty > By James Lewis > > The birth debate about Obama is real enough, but it is legally complicated, > as analyzed by legal beagle Andrew McCarthy at National Review. No judge is > going to question the Constitutional qualifications of an elected president. > I'm sorry, but that's the practical reality. The judge is going to follow > stare decisis -- the sheer weight of commitments that cannot be reversed > without creating chaos. Once the political system of the United States, the > voters, the media, and the politicians themselves are all committed to the > proposition that Obama is president, trying to reverse it would mean riots in > every city in the nation. At some point even debatable claims become > irreversible. That is why Al Franken is now the US Senator from Minnesota, > even if his election was corrupt and wrong. It's water under the bridge. > Leave it to history. > > And yet the Obama "birther" debate is important. What's important about it is > the feeling a growing number of Americans have in their bones that Obama is > foreign -- to our traditions, loyalties and shared understandings about the > nature of America. In a way the legal debate matters less than that bone-deep > sense that Obama is fundamentally "Other than American." > > We all recognized George W as a prototypical American -- even if you didn't > agree with him or even like him. There he was cutting dry brush around his > modest West Texas ranch house, to keep down the fire danger, while the fat > and foolish White House punditry stayed huddled back in the air conditioning. > Or flying onto the aircraft carrier in a jet trainer after Saddam was > overthrown. Or heading straight to walk Ground Zero with the cops and fire > fighters right after 9/11. Bush looked at home with those cops, because he > was. He likes those guys, and they like him. They are made of the same stuff. > Obama isn't. > > Obama is a socialist, which means that his deepest commitment is not to our > nation but to the Internationalist Ruling Class. That is why the Left always > has to argue that Americans' love of country will kill off the rest of the > world -- by global warming, by overpopulation, any excuse will do. The fact > that it's all lies proves the point: The Left must lie in order to convince > millions of Americans that their normal feelings of patriotism are evil. > > These facts are so obvious that they are not even worth arguing about. > Obama's first international speech -- characteristically before getting > elected -- started with the phrase "Citizens of the World!" Anybody on the > Left has to think, "Workers of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but > your chains!" That was the intended message to the left, of course -- that's > how David Axelrod thinks, that's how Obama's mentors have always thought -- > going back to his way-left mother and his Kenyan socialist father. The > interracial affair between the Kansas anthropologist 20-year-old and the > Kenyan socialist was itself a revolutionary act, the way these people think. > It was a positive good to bear an interracial child, even if the kid was > going to be abandoned by his father and mother. From that point onward the > Old Left handled the whole chain of custody. Obama was passed along by leftie > sponsors, one after the other. Frank Marshall Davis was the Communist Party > guy in Hawaii, and wrote for the Hawaiian Communist Party rag. You can trace > it link after link, following the Alinskyite chain all the way to the far > left wing of the Chicago Machine, then 20 years of being preached at by Rev. > Jeremiah Wright (whose brand of Christianity is only Marxism under a > transparent layer of lies). > > That's our Obama, and that's what he proudly proclaimed: Not Oh Say Can You > See/ By the Dawn's Early Light, but Dreams from My (Kenyan Socialist) Father. > > This is not a secret. Obama is foreign to America in a way that has little to > do with his birth certificate. He could be American-born and still think in > this very anti-American way. A lot of people are. But whatever he is legally, > there is not a shred of doubt that he is steeped in an Anti-American way of > thinking. > > This is what I suspect the birther movement is about. Yes, the legalities > are suspect. No, it will never make any practical difference. But most > important, the birthers are aware of a deep intuition about Barry Soetoro > Barack Hussein Obama: That he is profoundly out of tune with the meaning of > America since the Founding. He is out of harmony with this country and this > culture, like the dissonant scream of a power-saw biting into steel or > concrete. He just grates on the American sensibility. > > Obama is a Ruling Class Aristocrat -- by intuition, beliefs, and personal > egomania. He was born to rule. It's partly that he has always gone to all the > elite schools, from Hawaii to Harvard, just like Michelle. But he was put > into those schools by the efforts of the left, which is a Socialist Ruling > Class movement. The left in its own vision is always Ruling Class To Be that > is being kept unjustly from taking over the world. That's why they hate real > democracy, why they sneer at Coke and fries, and why capitalism is so bad: > Because it constant caters to "vulgar" tastes. > > (The fact that the left always claims to help the lowest of the low is just a > political tactic. By digging up the most resentful victims -- by race, class > or gender -- you bring out the most explosive revolutionary dynamite; it's > the people who are the most envious and resentful, who want nothing more than > to flip the world upside-down and watch destruction rain down. That's why the > Left constantly appeals to the "idealism" of teenagers, the natural rebels. > They all want to rock the world. And if it's not teens, it's illegal > immigrants, sexual deviants, the homeless, drug addicts, criminals, the > racially oppressed, those who hate themselves, the prostitutes, and the > mentally ill. Karl Marx called them the Lumpen-Proletariat, the Eternal > Underclass who want to smash whatever is. As the Nazi slogan said it, "Alles > Muss Anders Sein" -- "Everything Must Be Different." > > The left is about the overthrow of whatever is, whether good or bad. The > Eternal Underclass is the cannon fodder of any revolution. They are the > lowlifes who can be trusted to burn down the Reichstag, to smash the stores > of the Jews -- or in Indonesia, of the Chinese -- and to hang the rich from > the nearest lamp post. When blue collar workers started to make money the > Left didn't rejoice in their new well-being and happiness. Rather, the left > just looked for another Underclass: Those who felt oppressed by race, gender, > sexual habits, whatever. For the left, any Underclass only exists to be > manipulated by the Natural Ruling Class, the Aristocratic Vanguard, the > Obamas of this world. That's the only political strategy of the left. That is > why they constantly lie and still believe in their own moral superiority.) > > So is Obama American-born? I don't know. I bet he never comes up with that > vault copy birth certificate for us to examine. But it's never going to > matter a hill of beans, because no judge wants to be accused of overthrowing > a sitting President of the United States. > > But is Obama in tune with the soul of this country as Americans have > understood it since 1776? > > I think we all know the answer to that. > > That is what our political battles will be about, for years and years to > come. Don't expect it to be solved soon. It's been going on for a century. It > didn't end with American victory in the Cold War. It is most of all a battle > for minds and hearts, not for territory -- although territory matters. > Conservatives helped win the Cold War, but did not win the battle for the > schools and universities. That is why Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama is > now President. > > Gear yourself up, and don't stop fighting the battle for hearts and minds. > It's all-important. > > Page Printed > from:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/obamas_birth_debate_its_about.... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
