Short answer is no he cannot and he keeps proving that daily. DOC828NDF wrote: > I don't care if he was born on another planet.... Can he do his job? > The last president absolutely ran this country into the ground and > we're lucky he's gone.... If this one can do a good job, at this point > who cares. We have more important things to worry about at the moment > > > On Jul 31, 6:33 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.... >> > > > >
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