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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (607434)	4/11/2011 5:29:01 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1579125

Yeah, I get that about some of it. I can't help be curious about this though since he IS the blooming President of the United States .... Gerald Ford had a complicated family background but there was no secrecy about it. Thus no big deal.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (607434)	4/11/2011 6:27:57 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579125

>> To be frank, I don't want them known either. I don't think it's any of our business, and this is just devolving into tabloid fodder. HOW IS NOT ANY OF OUR BUSINESS IF A PRESIDENT FAILS TO MEET THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF HOLDING THE OFFICE? The man is an abject failure as a president, no doubt. But a lot of people take the Constitution seriously. After all, it is one of only two basic requirements for a president set out in the Constitution. Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention. They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment. -- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers