More Back and Forth on Obama's Citizenship Issue

Regarding the previously posted Obama video concerning his citizenship and therefore Obama’s eligibility to be the President of the United States .

We have been having a good back and forth with "smrstrauss", who is articulate and has written some very good comments. In response to smrstrauss’ comments (which are in Italics) I make these responses:

I posted that video because out of Obama’s mouth comes the admission that he was born in Kenya . Whereas previously, Obama and his supporters, have stated repeatedly that he was born in Hawaii , where copies of a short form live birth certificate stating such have been released. If Obama wants to pull the wool over the American people’s eyes, then get your story straight first.

(Also,) do you think that the US Congress would have confirmed Obama's election UNANIMOUSLY if one of them thought that the citizenship of Obama's father affected his Natural Born Citizen status? What a minute,….do you mean the same Congress that has driven us to the brink of national bankruptcy? The same congress that grants benefits too themselves that the American people will not receive? The same Congress that passes laws in order to find out what is in the law?

The applicable part of the Constitution regarding eligibility to hold the office of the Presidency is Article II, The Executive Branch, Section 1 - The President where it 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; 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.

The 14th Amendment applies to citizenship and states in paragraph 1, (that) All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

After the Wong Kim Ark case, there have been numerous federal court rulings that specifically state that the US-born children of foreigners are Natural Born Citizens. I agree with you on this. But despite your referencing a lot of court precedent,....on children born in the United States,....or it’s Territories, by/from U.S. Citizens,….. is just not applicable as Obama states he was born in Kenya and we know that his Father was not an American Citizen.

Obama has already shown the official birth certificate of Hawaii, and the facts on the document–that he was born in Hawaii in 1961—were confirmed twice by the officials of the Department of Health of Hawaii and by the governor of Hawaii (a Republican). Yes it’s true that Obama has previously listed Hawaii as his birthplace, but why did he say, on the video I posted on this site, that he was born in Kenya? Why does Michelle Obama refer to Kenya as Barack’s home?

Now after all this, I think this is an OBE event,…that means Overcome By Events.....closing the barn door after the horses got out......call it what you want, but I think electing a non- U.S. Citizen as President has set a bad precedent. All of those white conservatives were afraid to standup and be counted for fear of being called a racist. I am not calling for Obama’s removal from office, based on the citizenship issue. That will happened soon enough in January 2013 (we'll know on 3 Nov 2012). It will also be apparent in 8 days what the American People think about the direction he and his followers in Congress has taken this Country.

You all can comment on what you want, but this is the last I'm gonna to write about this issue, at least in the near future.

The Forgotten Man

Wow! I hope you all have the same reaction I did when I viewed Jon McNaughton's video, embedded below. Jon McNaughton an excellent painter, just look at the faces of President's Past that he captured on canvas,..look at the anguish on Geroge Bush's face!....Jon also demonstrates exceptional insight into how the majority of Americans feel about how the Constitution has been trampled on by the current President.

I do not agree with Jon's placement of Teddy Roosevelt in the group of our worst American Presidents: Obama, Clinton, Carter, FDR, Hoover, Wilson, and Cleveland. Teddy Roosevelt's heavy hand with free trade and captialism keep alot of people from dying in severe winters and he help break up alot of big business and transportation. Plus I like him for decking a Cowboy in a bar in Mingusville, Montana Territory, in 1885, who called him "four eyes", not to mention leading the Rough Rider charge against entrenched Spainish soldiers in Cuba. But there is no doubt that the Obama Administration, with it's appointed Czars, tax and spend policies, big government take over of industry and medicine is tramlping all over our beloved Constitution. Our only grace comes from the fact that his and his cronies combined pink slips will be announced 8 days from now.

Oh! The Forgotten Man?.....that's me and you.



Visit Jon McNaughton at: http://www.mcnaughtonart.com

This Week's You Cut - NPR Funding Cut Suggested

NPR firing Juan Williams for expressing his opinion demonstrates an over-reaching political correctness that is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression....that's what Eric Cantor, House Republican Whip says and I agree with him. That's why I'm voting on this week's You Cut to termination of federal funding for NPR in the latest round of YouCut options.

Go to: http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/


Terminate Taxpayer Funding of National Public Radio
Savings of Tens of Millions of Dollars (potentially in excess of a hundred million dollars)
National Public Radio's (NPR) recent decision to terminate commentator Juan Williams contract because of comments he expressed on another station have brought new found attention to NPR's receipt of taxpayer funds.

NPR receives taxpayer funding in two different ways. First, they receive direct government grants from various federal agencies, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Over the past two years this direct funding has totaled approximately $9 million. But NPR also receives taxpayer funds indirectly. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting makes grants to public radio stations. While some of these grants can be used for any purpose, some can only be used to acquire and produce programming. Often this programming is purchased from NPR. Indeed programming fees and dues paid by local public radio stations to NPR accounts for approximately 40% of NPR's budget or about $65 million last year. A portion of these funds were originally federal tax dollars provided to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to the local public radio stations.

NPR receives a significant amount of funding from private individuals and organizations through donations and sponsorships. For example in 2008, NPR listed over 32 separate private donors and sponsors who provided financial support in excess of half-a-million dollars that year. NPR officials have indicated that taxpayer funding makes up only a small portion of their overall budget. Therefore eliminating taxpayer support should not materially affect NPR’s ability to operate while at the same time saving taxpayers millions of dollars annually.


Terminate Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners Program
Savings of $87.5 million over ten years
The Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners program provides non-competitive grants to support culturally-based educational activities “to assist Alaska Natives, native Hawaiians, and children and families living in Massachusetts linked by history and tradition to Alaska and Hawaii, and members of any federally recognized Indian tribe in Mississippi.” The President has proposed terminating this program in part because it is non-competitive in nature, there is no reliable performance data by which to measure the outcomes of the program, and it has “narrow goals [that] are more appropriately served with State, local, and private funding.”


Terminate the Presidential Election Fund
Savings of $520 million over ten years.
The Presidential Election Fund is a federal program that provides matching funds to political candidates during Presidential primaries, certain third-party candidates, and funds for political conventions. In the 2008 Presidential election the candidates raised over $1.3 billion from individuals and PACs, in addition to taxpayer funds. Eliminating this additional taxpayer subsidy would allow those funds to be used for deficit reduction.