Alan Keyes on Obama’s Natural Born Citizenship
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Today the Supreme Court will take the Stay Application (full download) in Donofrio V. Wells Into full conference. Obama’s Natural Born Citizenship is, in fact, questionable, and needs to be clarified.
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The events that mark the end of one form of government and the beginning of another are more easily perceived and understood in the aftermath than by those caught up in the events and circumstances that constitute the transformation. The passions and affections of the moment interfere with the detachment that makes it possible for the mind to see the true significance of issues and decisions. Some things that seem large and momentous are in fact the exaggerated mirages of transient passion; others dismissed as sideshows will be seen in retrospect as crucial to the main event.
At the moment, these different possibilities may be ascribed to the same occurrence. A great storm of interest and celebration rages at the prospect of the first “African-American” president, and the supposed implications of his election as a breakthrough in the history of “race” relations in the United States. Yet, because it centers on a man who has in his background and character no ties to the actual people and events of that history, historians will have to look elsewhere for the event that truly represents the denouement of the story whose greatest turning point remains the first American Civil War. By contrast, scant attention is being paid to the unfolding constitutional drama, also connected with his inauthentic personal history, even though it clearly represents a potentially fatal crisis for the regime of constitutional, democratic self-government that has heretofore determined the government of the United States.
Until now, the government of the United States has been a constitutional republic based on the sovereignty of the people. The Constitution of the United States, as the ultimate and permanent expression of that sovereignty, has been respected as the Supreme Law of the Land. Some people, myself included, would certainly argue that in some matters this respect has been a merely formal camouflage for actions and decisions that contradict, embroider or simply ignore the plain text of the Constitution, but until now this has been done with arguments (however groundless and illogical) that formally preserve its authority.
Now a question has arisen with respect to what may be in a practical sense the most critical allocation of power in the Constitution, that of the president of the United States. Though by election that power is in the gift of the American people, the Constitution clearly imposes two restrictions or conditions upon it. It cannot be extended to someone under 35 years of age. It cannot be given to anyone who is not a natural born citizen of the United States.
Evidence has emerged, including recorded statements by his Kenyan grandmother, that raise doubts as to whether Barack Obama is in fact a natural born U.S. citizen, eligible to be president. Whatever the facts are, there can be no doubt of the constitutional requirement, and no doubt that a conscious decision to ignore it involves open and destructive disregard for the Constitution’s authority. If Obama is accepted as president of the United States in a context that sets aside the Constitution of the United States, by what authority will he govern? Full Article
The events that mark the end of one form of government and the beginning of another are more easily perceived and understood in the aftermath than by those caught up in the events and circumstances that constitute the transformation. The passions and affections of the moment interfere with the detachment that makes it possible for the mind to see the true significance of issues and decisions. Some things that seem large and momentous are in fact the exaggerated mirages of transient passion; others dismissed as sideshows will be seen in retrospect as crucial to the main event.

11 Comments
December 5th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
okay okay…great article. i agree. i really like the last line “if obama is accepted as president of the us in a context that sets aside the constitution of the us, by what authority will he govern?” that sums it up right there. i believe that even if they prove it to be true he will still take office. wow what will happen to the us and everything that it has been founded on? we are in big trouble.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Keyes’ argument about the civil rights cause (citizenship) and the authority of the Constitution is well taken. He’s is a brilliant man – and yes, by what authority will Obama govern, IF… Thanks so much leaving the link at my place.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Another thought on Horowitz’s “Chill” post: Keyes says bestowing the Presidency on anyone is a gift from the American people BUT that gift comes with two restrictions” meeting age and natural born status. Mr. Horowitz is forgetting this, I think
December 6th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I wonder what is going on… no word on Friday.
December 6th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
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December 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
In my Letter to America (click my name), I propose that the electors do not have to vote Obama in. If the financial collapse becomes intolerable (which it eventually will) in time for Americans to realize that Obama is not equipped to deal with it, they may realize they made a mistake. This is looking less likely at this late date, but this controversy adds a new twist to the situation.
December 7th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Joe, great letter. I agree with most of it, other than the Ron Paul part. I see no solution other than letting it collapse. It’s not just the casino, it’s the American people as well. Far too many people run their households much like the Federal Government. Credit, credit and more credit. Instant gratification and greed at all levels. That’s what I see.
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