The Quiet Conservative November 26, 2008
Will Barak Obama be Elected President of the United States?
You may wonder if the title “Will Barak Obama be Elected President of the United States?”
means this column is a repeat of an older one. It isn't. The date at the top is correct too. You see,
the issue of whether Barak Obama will be president is in doubt and the press hasn't kept you
informed.
In this country the Founding Fathers did not set up the system for the popular vote to elect its
president. It set up the Electoral College. We are about to see if that safeguard will be triggered. On
the Internet there have been questions about whether Senator Obama is qualified under the
Constitution to run for president. Those questions have been raised since he clinched the
nomination. You haven't seen those questions raised in the mainstream media.
To be qualified to be the President of the United States you have to be a “natural born citizen.”
This was to safeguard the country from electing someone who had loyalties to another nation. To
the Founding Fathers they wanted someone born in the United States. This rule means Arnold
Schwarzenegger can be governor of California, but never President of the United States. It might
also mean Barak Obama cannot be elected by the members of the Electoral College on December
15th.
There are two main thrusts against this happening. The first is the belief the original long form
typed vault birth certificate will show Barak was born in Kenya. To that extent the original has been
sealed by the governor of Hawaii and instead a Certificate of Live Birth (COLB) was placed on the
“Fight the Smears” web site run by the Obama campaign. The two aren’t the same. Hawaii allowed
children outside the US to get a Hawaiian COLB. This is called the short form. So the matter isn't
clear whether Barak Obama was born in Hawaii or in Kenya.
This should have been easily dismissed as the Senator has been to Hawaii twice during the
campaign. However, neither time did he pick up a copy of the original and release it to the press.
This has only fueled speculation that where there is smoke there is fire. The Obama campaign and
the DNC have spent thousands of dollars fighting the release in court. Why? It is senseless. It could
all go away in minutes.
Also, why didn't the press do their jobs? They could have investigated and put the matter to rest
with something like: “Barak Obama was born in St. Francis Hospital at 10:25 P.M August 4, 1961.
Dr. Miller was the physician.” But there is disinterest in the press to look. What if they actually
found something? This is the same press that didn't look into John Kerry’s service record
discrepancies. They haven’t changed in four years.
The other main thrust against Barak Obama’s eligibility is that he was born with dual citizenship.
This fact isn't disputed. In fact, according to Factcheck.org entry from August 29, 2008:
“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony,
still part of the United Kingdom's dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a
British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That
same act governed the status of Obama Sr.'s children:
British Nationality Act of 1948 (Part II, Section 5): Subject to the provisions of this section, a
person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and
Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the
birth.
In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. Citizen (by virtue of
being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of
being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC…”
“…But the paper failed to note that the Kenyan Constitution prohibits dual citizenship for adults.
Kenya recognizes dual citizenship for children, but Kenya's Constitution specifies that at age 21,
Kenyan citizens who possesses citizenship in more than one country automatically lose their Kenyan
citizenship unless they formally renounce any non-Kenyan citizenship and swear an oath of
allegiance to Kenya.
Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to
Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”
It is the dual citizenship that is now being used to contest Barak Obama’s eligibility. There is a
case before the United States Supreme Court that has requested a stay to the election of Barak
Obama on the condition of his ineligibility. The thrust of the objection is that regardless of where
Barak Obama was born, Kenya or Hawaii, the fact his father was a citizen of the United Kingdom,
and then of the newly independent Kenya, meant that citizenship was transferred to his children.
This in essence, is the very split allegiance the Founding Fathers sought to prevent.
Leo C. Donofrio v. Nina Mitchell Wells, New Jersey Secretary of State is the name of the filing.
The meat of the filing is that the New Jersey Secretary of State did not ensure that the candidate was
eligible to be placed on the ballot as was her responsibility. This filing was sent to Justice Souter on
November 3, 2008 from the Supreme Court of New Jersey to stop the popular vote in New Jersey.
The stay was denied on the 6th. It was then resubmitted to Justice Thomas on November 14th.
This time it was distributed to the other justices for conference on November 19th, 2008.
Yea, you say, so what? What does it all mean? It means that reliable Souter, who can find the
right to sodomy and abortion in the Constitution but not the Second Amendment, wouldn't dare to
deny a liberal Democrat the presidency. But Thomas, well, he’s a problem. You see he has integrity.
He believes in the Constitution and the rule of law. He isn't in to judicial activism. When he got the
filing he took it seriously. It had enough merit he distributed it to the other eight justices for review.
Apparently this action is almost unheard of.
When they meet on December 5th they will discuss whether to grant the stay. If they do take
action on that date and grant a stay, the Electoral College will not be able to vote. Not until the
matter is settled as to Barak Obama's eligibility. It means the election of Barak Obama is on hold!
What do you think will happen if a stay is issued? Pandemonium! First of all the press will be
forced to cover what they have ignored. People will be flabbergasted at this sudden earth shaking
event. They will probably not stop to think why the press had failed them again. When they do,
what will they say? They should be used to it by now. The press itself will be in shock as their
candidate is on hold.
What do you think will happen when the nation is told the Electoral College will not be allowed to
vote into office Barak Obama until the case runs its course? There hasn't been such a hot potato
before the court since….ever. Will there be riots? Maybe…definitely if Barak is declared ineligible.
Then there will be division and hatred like this country has never seen. You thought the hatred ran
deep from the Democratic failure to steal the 2000 election, now it will be open war.
Questions begin to pop into view. When the case is heard, will the original birth certificate
surface? By that we mean the long form with the hospital information? Will dual citizenship mean
Barak Obama was always ineligible for the office? How did this happen? Who becomes president in
January?
The wrong people will get blamed of course. The Democrats who knew will get a pass. The DNC
officials who should have vetted him but didn't (or kept it quiet), even Barak himself will be painted
as victims. Instead it will be open season on smearing Republicans, conservatives, whites, people
from red states, Christians, and people who believe in the rule of law. Everyone but the people
responsible. Justice Thomas, a man who lives by principle and integrity, will be hated most of all.
The liberals will displace the blame onto everyone but themselves, the people who caused the
problem. They are doing that now for the financial crisis, why not for putting up a candidate who
they knew was ineligible?
Odds are that the nine justices in conference will consider the powder keg they handle and quietly
let it pass rather than light it off and hope for the best. If the case has merit you would hope issuing
the stay is what happens, but the consequences are enormous.
If Barak Obama is ineligible for the office then to allow him to take the office means the
Constitution is just another contract that doesn't mean anything. It will be interesting to see if the
Constitution means what it was meant to say, or what liberals decide it says. The liberal track record
is quite good on the latter. December 5th is fast approaching. Will the press tell you what happens
when it's here?