{"id":1366,"date":"2011-09-19T22:55:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2011-09-19T23:18:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T05:18:01","slug":"pelosi-to-the-waterboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi to the Waterboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the weeks and months following Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s election as Governor of California in October 2003, there was considerable speculation\u2026 much of it fueled by Schwarzenegger himself\u2026 that he might one day wish to run for President of the United States.\u00a0 When asked by 60 Minutes<\/em> correspondent Morley Safer whether or not he had presidential ambitions, he said, \u201cYes.\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 I think, you know, because why not?\u00a0 Like with my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the fact that Schwarzenegger was born in Austria, to parents who were both Austrian citizens, placed him at odds with Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which requires that all candidates for president and vice president must be \u201cnatural born\u201d U.S. citizens who are at least 35 years of age and who have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.<\/p>\n

In support of Schwarzenegger\u2019s presidential \u201cambitions,\u201d Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), introduced House Joint Resolution 104 on September 15, 2004.\u00a0 The resolution proposed to amend Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution by adding the following language:<\/p>\n

\u201cA person who is a citizen of the United States, who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 20 years, and who is otherwise eligible to hold the Office of the President, is not ineligible to hold that Office by reason of not being a native born citizen of the United States.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

H.J.R. 104 was referred to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, where it remained through the end of the 108th<\/sup> Congress.\u00a0 Then, early in the 109th<\/sup> Congress, on February 1, 2005, Rohrabacher made a second attempt with the introduction of H.J.R. 15, which contained essentially the same language as the failed H.J.R. 104 of the previous Congress.<\/p>\n

However, while it is understandable that Rohrabacher would attempt to amend the Constitution to make it possible for his own governor, a naturalized citizen, to seek the presidency, similar attempts by Democrats during the same decade are not so easily understood.\u00a0 For example, on June 11, 2003, during the 108th<\/sup> Congress, Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR) introduced H.J.R. 59 to amend Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution by substituting the following language:<\/p>\n

\u201cA person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 35 years and who has been a resident within the United States for at least 14 years shall be eligible to hold the office of President or Vice President<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Snyder proposal was followed by H.J.R. 67, introduced on September 3, 2003 by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).\u00a0 The Conyers proposal would have added the following substitute language to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution:<\/p>\n

\u201cA person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 20 years shall be eligible to hold the Office of President.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

On January 4, 2005, early in the 109th<\/sup> Congress, Conyers made a second attempt with the introduction of H.J.R. 2, proposing the same language as contained in H.J.R. 67 of the 108th<\/sup> Congress.\u00a0 And on April 14, 2005, Rep. Vic Snyder made yet another attempt, introducing H.J.R. 42, containing amendatory language identical to his H.J.R. 59 of the 108th<\/sup> Congress.<\/p>\n

All of the above resolutions, proposing to send constitutional amendments to the states for ratification, suffered the same fate.\u00a0 All died in committee without being acted upon.<\/p>\n

Any member of Congress is free to introduce a resolution proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0 However, what distinguishes Rep. Rohrabacher\u2019s resolutions from those of his Democratic colleagues is that his motive was clear\u2026 he was interested in making it possible for his governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, to seek the presidency.\u00a0 The motivations of his Democrat colleagues, on the other hand, are a mystery; they only serve to raise important questions.<\/p>\n

For example, if the \u201cnatural born Citizen\u201d requirement had not represented a major problem at any time in history, why were Democrats suddenly concerned about it in 2003, 2004, and 2005 when a young black man, the son of an American mother and an African father, was emerging as a rising star in their party?<\/p>\n

Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996, one of 6,978 state legislators in the United States.\u00a0 He served eight totally undistinguished years in the legislature\u2026 voting \u201cpresent\u201d on some 129 occasions\u2026 before announcing his candidacy for the United States Senate in 2004.\u00a0 It was in that year, the year in which he was elected to the U.S. Senate, that he was selected to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.\u00a0 He was elected to the United States Senate in November 2004 and was sworn into office on January 4, 2005.\u00a0 Almost immediately upon being seated he launched his campaign for the presidency.\u00a0\u00a0 In the ensuing three years he devoted most of his time to his presidential campaign and on August 28, 2008 he defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n

So the question arises, what did Congressmen Snyder and Conyers know that caused them to offer proposed constitutional amendments in the House of Representatives?\u00a0 More specifically, what did they know about Obama\u2019s presidential ambitions and his inability to meet the \u201cnatural born Citizen\u201d standard, and when did they know it?<\/p>\n

Although the Snyder and Conyers proposals might have raised some eyebrows if their attempts to amend the constitution had been widely reported and debated, it was not until the officers of the 2008 Democratic National Convention officially certified Obama and Biden as the party\u2019s candidates that it became evident that something was seriously amiss.<\/p>\n

In certifying the party\u2019s 2008 candidates to the state election boards so that ballots could be printed, only one state, the State of Hawaii, received the following certification from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Alice Travis Germond, convention chairman and secretary, respectively:<\/p>\n

\u201cTHIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though <\/em>(sic) 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

The remaining forty-nine states received the following certification:<\/p>\n

“THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democrat Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 though <\/em>(sic) 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively:\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In each instance, the certifications were followed by the names and home addresses of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.\u00a0 However, only the State of Hawaii, pursuant to Hawaii Revised Statutes \u00a711-113, contained the phrase, \u201c\u2026 and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>Other than that, the two documents were identical\u2026 even to the misspelling of the word \u201cthrough\u201d in the second line of the certifications.<\/p>\n

So what does that tell us?\u00a0 Given what is now widely known about the circumstances of Obama\u2019s birth and parentage, one might conclude that high-ranking Democratic officials\u2026 most notably convention chairman Nancy Pelosi\u2026 were fully aware when they nominated him that Barack Obama was ineligible to serve as President of the United States, by reason of the fact that he is not a \u201cnatural born\u201d citizen as required by the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

The bogus presidency of Barack Obama is clearly one of the most monstrous crime ever committed against the people of the United States.\u00a0 But what are the chances that the full extent of the crime will ever be fully disclosed?\u00a0 So long as liberals and Democrats are willing to protect him at all costs, and so long as conservatives and Republicans are afraid to challenge him because of the color of his skin, Obama will likely go unpunished.\u00a0 However, if we could ever get the former Speaker secured to a straight-backed chair, leaning backward over a large basin with a towel or wash cloth over her face and a pail of water at hand, we would almost certainly learn the truth.<\/p>\n

Just as Khalid Sheikh Muhammad told the CIA everything they wanted to know about the planning and execution of the 9\/11 attacks, Ms. Pelosi would be just as certain to spill the beans on exactly when the leadership of the Democratic Party first became aware that George Soros and Barack Obama were intent upon committing the greatest political crime of all time\u2026 the brazen theft of the American presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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