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booman17 asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

Why Do You Think The Democrats Tried 7 Times To Change The Constitutional Requirements For The Presidency?

Sine the rise of Obama in the Democratic party, starting in 2003-2004, there have been 8 attempts to redefine "natural born citizen" or change the language in the Constitution.in 2003, HJR159 , In 2004 HJR67, HJR104. In 2005 HJR2 and HJR15 and HJR42. And in 2008 Senate Bill 2678. Will the fraudulent and illegal Presidency ever be exposed?

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  • Di
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    When politicians start trying to "redefine" anything you can pretty much bet that they are doing damage control for the future. History will ultimately reflect the truth and those who may be birthers will be vindicated.

  • 10 years ago

    You are very wrong on the motivation for any of these resolutions. The Equal Right to Govern Amendment was introduced by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch in 2003. That one generated actual hearings in 2004, called by then-Republican Senator Arlen Specter. Wasn't related to Obama, though, as he was barely a blip on the radar. The prime motivation was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and the prime movers were Republicans. See SJR15. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.J.RES...

    HJR15 in 2005 was sponsored by Rep. Rohrabacher (R-CA). HJR42 in 2005 was cosponsored by one Republican and one Democrat. HJR104 in 2004 was another Rohrabacher (R-CA). S2678 (2008) only applied to children of US Service members born overseas, and was directly aimed at John MCCAIN! So your premise that these were Democratic-led efforts for Obama is flat-out wrong.

    There have been dozens of attempts to change the presidential eligibility since the Civil War. All of these would allow naturalized citizens to be eligible for the presidency. But no one ever doubted that a citizen born in the USA, regardless of their parentage, was eligible.

    Research this stuff yourself, don't rely on Youtubes.

    Source(s): Hatch hearing transcripts: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi...
  • Stan
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    A total and absolute distortion of the truth. The Constitution is in no danger of being changed...the requirements for president are quite clear.

    Enough with the right wing ditto-headed conspiracy theories.

    Now report me and block me because you conspiracy nuts can't handle the truth any other way.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    They wanted Che Guevara as President.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    birther news. Eh. I hate conspiracies I hate even more believing in them. Especially when its usually the wackos on the left with these conspiracies.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    As currently written, obama does not qualify because one of his parents was not a US citizen. Read Vattel on the Law of Nations.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Probably to make way for the Marxist Fraud of foreign origin.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    It's clearly because Democrats PREFER to be led by hostile foreigners.

  • 10 years ago

    I don't know what all those numbers mean - perhaps they are they trying to make a better/ fairer system.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    So that they could stack the deck for their party.

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