People who need to actually read the U.S. Constitution

[snopes]

Comment: I have recently received an email all hysterical about AG Eric
Holder stating he does not believe that the 1st amendment gives us the
right to own guns. The email is all you have to vote against this and pass
it on. There is too much hysteria associated with it to make it
believable. Does it have any basis in reality?

[Cowboy Joe]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: I have recently received an email all hysterical about AG Eric
Holder stating he does not believe that the 1st amendment gives us the
right to own guns. The email is all you have to vote against this and pass
it on. There is too much hysteria associated with it to make it
believable. Does it have any basis in reality?

I also believe the 1st Amendment doesn't give ANYONE the right to bear arms. But I am also a supporter of Obama, so, take it for what it's worth.

[snopes]

Comment: "Why", does all who print topics leave out what the
"CONSTITUTION" states for the QUALIFICATION of the PRESIDENT and the VISE
PRESIDENT. This qualification only applies to the President and the Vise
President.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE VISE PRESIDENT MUST BE BORN OF NATURAL BORN PARENTS
OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!!!

His father was not a citizen of the USA, but a British citizen from Kena.

Obama does not qualify. PERIOD!!!

If the truth can not be applied. Then your statement should state you do
not tell the truth.

Communist News Papers and TV do this kind of printing.

Anyone that covers up legal documents needs to incarnated. It goes against
our CONSTITITUTION!!!!!!!!!

[Dropbear]

Originally Posted by snopes

Anyone that covers up legal documents needs to incarnated.

That post was filled wiht delicious malapropisms but the one above is my favourite. Incarnated as *what* exactly?

Dropbear

[Dasla]

Originally Posted by snopes

His father was not a citizen of the USA, but a British citizen from Kena.

And this is mine...where on earth is kena.

And what was the bit a about statement and the state or states or state of being?

Dasla "who checked her own spelling three times"

[GenYus234]

I assume the job of the Vise President is to clamp down on runaway spending?

Also, the POTUS must be born of natural born parents of the United States? Does that mean only the children of George Washington (he's the Father of our country) or Martha Washington (presumably the Mother) are eligible to be POTUS? Because I think their kids are probably dead.

Also, wouldn't the poster's imaginary standard mean that Mitt Romney wasn't eligible either as his father was born in Mexico?

[Esprise Me]

Natural born parents? Is that like some sort of MacBeth-esque trickery, where if you were delivered by C-section, you don't count?

[snopes]

Communist News Papers and TV do this kind of printing.

I've RTFM six times already, and I still can't figure out how to access the print function on my Samsung TV. Maybe they don't sell the Communist version in the U.S. market.

[Lainie]

Originally Posted by GenYus234

Also, the POTUS must be born of natural born parents of the United States? Does that mean only the children of George Washington (he's the Father of our country) or Martha Washington (presumably the Mother) are eligible to be POTUS? Because I think their kids are probably dead.

Or never existed. George Washington had no [biological] children.

[Arriah]

Originally Posted by Esprise Me

Natural born parents? Is that like some sort of MacBeth-esque trickery, where if you were delivered by C-section, you don't count?

No, no, no! If your parents were delivered by C-section, you don't count. You, presumably, can arrive however you like.

[Wolf333]

Originally Posted by GenYus234

I assume the job of the Vise President is to clamp down on runaway spending?

It took a while, but I saw what you did there .

[Avril]

Originally Posted by Dropbear

That post was filled wiht delicious malapropisms but the one above is my favourite. Incarnated as *what* exactly?

We're already incarnated, all of us. Unless he's saying that there are ghosts and spirits off doing funny things with our documents...

INCARNATE, YOU DEVILS, INCARNATE!

[Auburn Red]

Oh oh can I be incarnated as a queen I always wanted to have unlimited power.

Apparently, the constitititution has grown more "T" since the last time we saw it.

And what is the Vise President? Is it the person who sticks someone's head in a vise if they disagree with the boss?

Auburn "If that's true, Dick Cheney must have had the largest vise in the world" Red

[damian]

Originally Posted by Cowboy Joe

I also believe the 1st Amendment doesn't give ANYONE the right to bear arms. But I am also a supporter of Obama, so, take it for what it's worth.

But you can talk about it all you want.

Originally Posted by GenYus234

Also, the POTUS must be born of natural born parents of the United States? Does that mean only the children of George Washington (he's the Father of our country) or Martha Washington (presumably the Mother) are eligible to be POTUS?

Originally Posted by Lainie

Or never existed. George Washington had no [biological] children.

George Washington wasn't born in the United States of America.

[GenYus234]

But he's the father of our* country. And the poster clearly says that the Constipitution says that the President must be born of natural born parents of the United States. As (AFIAK) Washington is the only one described as Father of our* country, then he and Martha are the only parents of the United States and therefor only their children are eligible to be the President.

* That's how he's described, so the "our" is our as Americans, not "our" as in you and I.

[damian]

I see what you did there. I'm challenging his eligibility to be President. When he was born, he was not a citizen of the United States, as it did not exist at that time. Martin Van Buren was the first President that was born in the USA.

[GenYus234]

If we are being serious, that isn't an issue. The Constitution says that the President must be natural born citizen or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.

ETA: Actually, Van Buren falls under both "natural born citizen" and "citzen at the time" as he born after the Aritcles of Confederation were ratified and was 5 years old when the Constitution was ratified.

[Lainie]

Because the founders were not stupid. ETA: To clarify, I mean that they would have to have been pretty dense NOT to include that exception. It's not like they didn't know the US didn't exist when they were born.

[snopes]

Comment: Did Obama change the 4th and/or 5th amendment to the US
Constitution on the 31 December 2011?

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Lainie

It's not like they didn't know the US didn't exist when they were born.

Do you remember stuff that happened the day you were born? I certainly don't.