Native Born Obama?????

Well, the right-wing religious radicals are at it again. Not only do they deny those “crazy whacko ideas” like evolution (they claim it’s a theory and not a proven fact,) climate change and the responsibility of mankind for the problem, deny the Holocaust, and claim the President of the United States is a racist (a favorite claim of right wing radio and television,) but now they are pushing the idea (thru a loud vocal group, broadcasters and Republican Congressmen) that the President isn’t a natural born citizen of the United States which is a requirement for the office. They demand that he show his Hawaiian birth certificate, which they have already decided is a phony. They also say that even if he was born in Hawaii his father wasn’t, therefore he cannot be a natural born citizen. Someone really needs to learn American citizenship law because anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen no matter the citizenship of their parents. But that’s beside the fact. He definitely is a natural born citizen as testified to by the Republican candidate for president during the campaign, Sen. John McCain. Can we trust the word of a respected member of Congress and a war hero?

But even if we give the devil his due, it brings up a ghastly problem. What are we going to do about the laws signed by the first seven presidents of the United States? None of them were natural born citizens of our beloved country but rather citizens of Great Britain. There was no United States as we know it before the War of Independence (1776) or even the writing of the Constitution in 1789. Maybe we should throw out all their signings, decisions, and military leadership as the works of foreign born nationals. Take a look at the birth dates: Washington 1732; Adams 1735; Jefferson 1743 (my goodness, this foreigner wrote the Declaration of Independence); Madison 1751 (he was Commander in Chief during the War of 1812); Monroe 1758 (whoops there goes the Monroe Doctrine); Adams 1767; and Jackson 1767 (Jacksonian Democracy goes down the drain.)

Ridiculous? Of course. But no more ridiculous than those who would malign a duly elected native American President. Or is it just another form of bigotry couched in politics.