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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
But I think the way that most constitutional scholars have interpreted the constitution, a person would not be eligible in this situation because the wording says "only natural born citizens are eligible".
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Then how come John McCain and George Romney were allowed to run for President?
Neither was born in the USA. But they were born to American citizens, exactly like Obama.
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So whether it is true or not, it is not some crazy theory that only a few people believe.
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The only reason people believe it is that
they were deliberately fed that, thanks to Sarah Palin and Fox News in 2008, and picked up by the other right wing conservative sites, and it became a self-fullfilling thing.
Nobody questioned Obama until a minor campaign aid in the Hillary campaign deliberately sent around an e-mail raising the question. Then McCain and Palin picked up on it. Of course they did - xenophobia wins!
Look at you - - there is zero that would convince you 100% that Obama is an American citizen. The birth certificate? Not good enough. The long-form birth certificate guaranteed by the GOP Governor of Hawai'i as real? Disbelieved. Questioned. The hospital announcements of the birth in the newspaper? Questioned. The people who know Obama's mother when he was born? Questioned.
People are so gullible and believe what they are told. Remember the old woman who told McCain Obama was an Arab?
And yes, this is exactly like believing in Chupacabra, BigFoot, aliens in Roswell, and 9-11 Truthers. Exactly the same thing.
Rupert: Lee Atwater. Willie Horton. Racism and xenophobia is the one reliable way to energize the Republican Party base, after southern white Democrats abandoned the Democratic party when Lyndon Johnson ensured voting rights for blacks in the 1960's, and became sudden Republicans.
It is a deliberate political strategy, and it's being used by John Sununu daily on behalf of Mitt Romney right now. McCain hated it, Palin used it against his desires. Hillary was against it, but some of her surrogates tried it on Obama. And of course the screaming monkeys of the right wing, like Hannity and Beck, just grabbed it and took off. Of course "60% of people" believe. They are gullible and they've heard it so often there must be something to it. Like Santa Clause and BigFoot.