It is correct that the term “natural born citizen” is not defined in the U.S. Constitution. (Nor are hundreds of other terms.) That is, of course, the whole point of wanting the issue to go to the U.S. Supreme Court for a ruling. The Court would then be obligated to review relevant contemporaneous historical documents to determine what James Madison and the other Founding Fathers meant by the term. The Court would also have to recognize that an earlier draft of the document required only that presidents be native born, and that John Jay wrote George Washington to request that the requirement be changed to natural born to further remove foreign influence (via the citizenship of the president’s parents).
An objective review of the historical use of the term natural born citizen tells us that the Court would have no choice but to rule against Obama, a decision supported by the fact that the natural born citizen clause contains a grandfather exception that makes no sense whatsoever if natural born means only native born. That is why Obama is fighting the eligibility lawsuits. He knows he can count on his carefully selected Judges Sotomayor and Kagan to vote for him and against the Constitution, but he cannot count on all the others—who he stupidly insulted during his 2010 State of the Union address.
Obama has to keep the issue from the Supreme Court. If he were confidant he would win he would not be fighting the legal challenges. No court has ever issued a ruling on the merits of the eligibility challenges against Obama. In every case the court has taken the easy way out and denied standing to the plaintiffs. They are afraid to rule on this issue because they believe that Obama would lose, and they fear nationwide riots if he were forced out of office.
All elected presidents before Obama were either covered by the grandfather clause in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution or were, as required, natural born citizens, with two U.S.-citizen parents. There was one fraudulent occupant of the White House prior to Obama: Chester A. Arthur. Arthur was not an elected president; he was a vice-president who took office because of the assassination of President James Garfield. Arthur hid the fact that his father was not a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth. (His father was naturalized about 15 years after Chester was born.) Like Obama, Chester Arthur was a British citizen at his birth because of his father’s British citizenship. Arthur went so far as to burn documents in an attempt to prevent the truth from being known. (Unfortunately for Arthur, Photoshop and Adobe illustrator did not exist in those days, and he did not have the liberal media covering for him.) If “natural born citizen” means nothing more than having been born on U.S. soil, without regard to the citizenship of the parents (as Obama supporters claim), then one must ask, “Why did Arthur hide his father’s citizenship? Why did he burn documents?”
And, why did someone create a phony birth certificate for Obama?
And why did Obama use a SS number that actually belonged to a dead man?
And why does the new “phony” long form birth certificate use a hospital name that didn’t even exist at the time?
And why does the new “phony” long birth certificate not have the embossed seal as required.
