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What were they up to?

Big Muddy rancher

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The issue of Obama's eligibilty going before the Supreme Court was gaining traction in the media, until a scandal of corruption conveniently shifted the spotlight away from it. Don't let that sidetrack this issue. Thought some might find this interesting.

On April 10th, 2008, six US Senators came together to propose the binding senate resolution 511. Operating under the guise of answering the question of John McCain's citizenship, oddly enough two of these senators were McCain's opponents, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The other 4 senators were Leahy, Webb, Coburn and McCaskill. Curiously, since previous laws in 2000 and 2004 had already addressed the issue of McCain's legal status, there seemed to be an urgency in passing the resolution. And even more suspect were some changes made to the wording of the bill, by Senators' McCaskill and Obama, that were not even applicable to McCain's situation. It begs the question why McCaskill and Obama reportedly tried to INSERT the following phrase into the bill; “Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President;” and to DELETE the phrase, "“; and Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936:” from the bill.

If the expansion of Sen. 511 had been left to stand, it would have created a blanket resolution covering all foreign born candidates. The final resolution can be found here: http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/041008c.html

Another interesting excerpt I found at: http://colony14.net/id41.html
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In February of 2006, Sarah P. Herlihy, an associate of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, writes a document called, “Amending the Natural Born Citizen Requirement: Globalization as the Impetus and the Obstacle,” in which she argues for eliminating the “natural born citizen” requirement of the U.S. Constitution, which she calls the “stupidest provision” in the document, because the rule “discriminates” against naturalized citizens. (That, of course, was the intention of the Constitution's framers.) Note that the employees of Kirkland & Ellis (which does not specialize in Constitutional law) later contribute $87,722 to the Obama campaign, and $642 to McCain. Bruce I. Ettleson, a partner in Kirkland & Ellis, is a member of Obama’s campaign finance committee. >>
 
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