Well, I am right. The GOP didn't make a stink about that, the grassroots did. Most of the party leadership is on record denouncing the birthers. In any event the "birther" and "Obama is a Muslim" memes actually were initially started by the Hillary Clinton campaign (along with a few others that didn't catch on, like "Obama did cocaine with a male prostitute").
In part, you are right and there is reason why the GOP said anything.
Remember the quote of FDR:
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
As in the election of Obama was meant to happen
and was a coordinated effort by both parties to change a part of the constitution, that failed before in congress.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in
Federalist No. 16,
that the American people are “the natural guardians of the
Constitution” and should take whatever action is necessary when their
representatives in the federal government concur with the usurpations of
another Branch – and thereby violate their oaths to defend the
Constitution. (
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In
Federalist No. 33, Hamilton
says:
“If the federal government should overpass the just
bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the
people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have
formed [the Constitution], and take such measures to redress the injury
done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence
justify.”
The Founding Fathers warned us to preserve a government of laws, and not of men.
Arrogant, lawless and lusting for power, government officials have
abrogated their responsibility to the Constitution, the country and its
citizens.
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It was a backroom deal among Congressional Democrats and Republicans, which created our current Constitutional crisis.
Congress and our political leadership always knew that Barack Obama
was not a natural born citizen and, therefore, he was never eligible for
the Presidency.
Over the last twenty to thirty years, members of Congress, for both
personal and partisan reasons, have unsuccessfully attempted to
water
down the natural born citizen clause by offering potential Amendments to
the Constitution.
Political coup d’etat of the Constitution
In the Spring of 2008, however, politicians
found an opportunity to
create a precedent, whereby they could
change the eligibility
requirements for the Presidency without an Amendment.
At that time, John McCain’s eligibility according to the natural born
clause was being questioned. So, a deal was struck and the bogus and
non-binding
Senate resolution 511 was passed, which provided cover for
both McCain and Obama.
It was a political coup d’etat of the Constitution.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/37929
