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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (30911)12/30/2008 9:52:03 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71588
 
Who's in Charge of the Democrats?
Posted by HughS
Published: December 30, 2008 - 8:03 PM

As Kevin has noted below, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has appointed former State Attorney General Roland Burris to the Senate seat once held by President elect Obama.

There is no lack of irony that Bobby Rush- (D-Black Panther Party) has laid down the gauntlet to Senate Democrats and President elect Obama in his statement:

"I don't think any U.S. senator ... wants to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the U.S. Senate."
He told reporters that Senate Democrats should not "hang and lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer."

This is the same Bobby Rush who, when challenged by Obama for his seat in Congress in 1999, joined with Jesse Jackson to put candidate Obama in his place during that election with these remarks, according to David Remnick:

"Jesse Jackson said that Rush "was and is an icon in the civil-rights movement" in Chicago and had established himself, first on the City Council and then in Congress. "So this relatively new guy, moving on him, didn't sit well," said Jackson, who supported Rush.

Rush did not hesitate to mock Obama as inauthentic--and, by inference, insufficiently black. "He went to Harvard and became an educated fool," Rush told the Chicago Reader during the campaign"."

So, what are we to make of the Blogo middle finger salute to the majority party in Washington and its President elect? Who is really running the Democratic Party today?

It's astounding to hear a former Black Panther Party founder lecture a Pesident elect in such a fashion. Is this a precursor to the dialogue of this next four years?

wizbangblog.com



To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (30911)12/31/2008 9:51:38 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71588
 
Buddy, you must not read what I post to you. If she was not over the age of 19 or resided in the US when he was born outside of the US then he is not a natural born citizen. Since there are three witnesses that are relatives of Obama who have testified that he was born in Kenya there is substantial reason to suspect they are may have been being truthful.

"the law stated that his mother would have had to have lived 10-years in the United States, 5 of which were after the age of 14. Since she was 18 at the time of Obama’s birth, she did not meet the residency requirements for passing U.S. citizenship to Obama."

As I previously posted the most reasonable assumption now is that the SCOTUS believed the issue to be toxic and thus declined to rule.

The presumption of the informed is that he is an usurper.