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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: President Obama



Tuesday, January 20, 2009  

President Obama


Just started watching (well, listening while I'm doing housework) the swearing in and speech, and my god did John Roberts fuck it up at the start. Dude, you've got like 50 words to say, in bursts of 4-6 at a time. The entire world is watching this. You are (in theory) a brilliant lawyer and the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Can you not mangle it completely?

I'd read a quick news item about it earlier, but much like my last first date, it's much more painful to listen to with your own ears than to read about.



Update: They did a redo that night inside the White House, primarily to snatch the poisoned meat from the jaws of the wingnut-o-sphere, who needed a new toy to chew on now that they've (mostly) given up gnawing on the whole "Obama's birth certificate is fake 'cause he was born in Nigeria, and/or his father is Malcolm X" crazy bone.

Here's a quote from the news item, with a special bonus closing line of presidential trivia:
Don't worry, the White House says: Obama has still been president since noon on Inauguration Day.

Nevertheless, Obama and Roberts went through the drill again out of what White House counsel Greg Craig called "an abundance of caution."

This time, the scene was the White House Map Room in front of a small group of reporters, not the Capitol platform before the whole watching world.

...The Constitution is clear about the exact wording of the oath and as a result, some constitutional experts have said that a do-over probably wasn't necessary but also couldn't hurt. Two other previous presidents have repeated the oath because of similar issues, Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur.

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The intersting thing about the birth certificate is that it is not real. Go find yours and compare. Yours wasn't printed with laser jet, it was typed and hand signed and has no SSN on it. Since that is what the govenor of Hawaii said was the reason he locked it down. Why lock down a document that you need for a pasport, driver's license, etc... Just makes you think. Check out the You Tube of the guy examining his birthcertificate.


 

But... he's an ARAB!!!!!!! Paling around with his terrorist pals.


 

Oh my God, there are actually people who take the birth certificate thing seriously? It's so obviously some lame bullshit conservatives came up with to smear Obama.

Do people honestly think that the government would drop the ball on something as simple as MAKING SURE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS AMERICAN? You know McCain had a whole TEAM of people desperately hoping to find something like that.

And as for people saying, "then why doesn't he come out and show proof?"... it reminds me of something I saw on Colbert or The Daily Show. "Obama has not said that he does not eat babies, so we can only assume he is a baby eater." Not that that matters, since Obama did debunk it... IN JUNE.

The right wing nuts are getting desperate. I think Obama should give Palin a consolation prize. Let Alaska succeed from the country, like Mr. Palin wants. Make her president of the new Nation of Alaska, then all the people whining over Obama can just move there and shut the fuck up.


 

And one more thing...

Even if it's true that Obama was born outside of the US... it doesn't matter! His mom is a US citizen, which legally makes him a natural-born citizen.

Conservatives remind me of Christians. The ones who bitch most about people not following their document of choice usually have no clue what it actually says.


 

Actually, if you look at the constitution, under the "natural born citizen" the child needs to be born either inside the US (meaning US base like McCain), or they are born outside the US, they need both parents to be US citizens. Obama's father is a British Citizen.

This just opens up a resolution to the 22nd amendment and lets Arnold become dictator, i mean president in the future.


 

Nope, only one parent needs to be a citizen for Obama to qualify.

At the time Obama was born, the law stated that a person would be considered a "natural born citizen" if either parent was a citizen who had lived at least 10 years in the U.S., including five years after the age of 14—in other words, 19.

Dunham was three months shy of her 19th birthday when Obama was born. But subsequent acts of Congress relaxed the requirement to five years in the U.S., including just two years after the age of 14, meaning Dunham could have been 16 and still qualified even if Obama was born in another country, Volokh said. Congress made the law retroactive to 1952, doubly covering Obama.


http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/30/nation/chi-birth-certificate-30-oct30#___1__


 

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