Posted by: ultraguy | January 26, 2009

Separation of Powers?

Maybe… or maybe not (Obama citizenship case mysteriously disappears from SCOTUS docket).

H/T: Kevin’s Korner.

Posted in double standards, ethics, law, politics

«
»

Responses

  1. I respectfully disagree with the idea that he must be the President and respected thereof solely because he was voted in. 65 million votes were enough to win the election but they in no way turn someone who is Constitutionally ineligible into someone who is eligible. That is is a matter of law not of election.

    Personally I do not find the evidence that he was born outside the US convincing beyond a reasonable doubt, but it does concern me that something which could be easily put to rest by Obama has not been. I can see how some people would find that and the evidence that is available to be sufficient to doubt his citizenship. Until this issue is proven false it is deprecatory to dismiss such concerns with such a glib response as he’s been elected so he has to be President.

    [The burden of proof should have been on B.O. on this. For whatever reason, it seems to have shifted to his detractors and that is truly odd.

    Because the concerted appeals to common sense by many across a wide front have barely slowed his momentum, I conclude that God put him there for a reason. That does not mean he is legal in the secular or divine sense or that the reason is of the moral-happy-sunshine variety, merely that his presence is destined to further God's will.

    I take it as a fait accompli practically speaking, in that the alternative is revolution and I don't put stock in the earthly kind. I suspect there's a much bigger supernatural one coming very soon. -ed.]

    By: Kevin on January 27, 2009
    at 9:03 am

  2. Personally, I think that battle (if there ever was one) is over. IMO, it was a thin reed to begin with. Better to fight on the ground of ideas and morals than on the “citizenship” red-herring. Aside from the futility, it smacks of the same weird “anti” “sore loser” mentality that characterized the fringe-left dead-enders of the past 8 years. All that will do is sow more bitterness.

    I humbly suggest that it is better to accept the will of 52% of the voting masses with dignity and honor. That way when it does all collapse… and it will, we can actually return to being the servants who are willing to lead the way back and clean up the mess. And there will be plenty to clean up. IMO

    [Totally agree. As I wrote last week: "The secular legalities of this are not my issue. He’s president. I don’t contest that. If you disagree, get over it and let’s get on the the praying thing..."

    This gets at a different issue: who gets to make that decision. For the Supremes to decide they don't want to hear it and to say so publicly is one thing. For someone to quietly 'disappear' a pending case off the docket is quite another.

    The other angle is the one I blogged about the other day: Even if we never hear of this again, he either is or is not a natural-born citizen. God knows. And if he wasn't, then he is technically lawless, and therefore potentially the man spoken of in 2nd Thess 2. - ed.]

    By: archangel on January 26, 2009
    at 11:40 am


Categories