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Petition demands investigation into issue of presidential eligibility
WND
Bob Unruh
4/13/2012
Excerpt:
"Several members of Congress have tentatively broached the subject of the constitutional eligibility of the president, only to retreat when the mainstream media pulled out a well-worn repertoire of “birther” jokes.
But will the lawmakers have courage to begin asking the tough questions when there are tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of their constituents demanding answers?
It soon will be known, as the signatures on a new petition urging a congressional investigation surged past 30,000 and headed toward 40,000 going into the weekend, although it’s been available only for part of this week.
One of the Congress members was Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who said, regarding the constitutional qualifications for president, “Any circumvention of these constitutional requirements would be a slap in the face to the rule of law and our very democracy.”
Also, Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, told a constituent that it appears the courts should resolve the issue, not Congress, and he wondered what claims can be brought to Obama’s doorstep.
At the time the comments surfaced, it appeared that at least some members of Congress were breaking away from recommendations from the Congressional Research Service on how to dismiss such questions.
As WND reported, Jerry W. Mansfield, an information research specialist in the Knowledge Services Group of the Congressional Research Sevice, issued a memo to prepare members of Congress to rebut and defuse questions constituents were asking regarding Obama’s presidential eligibility under the natural-born citizen requirement of the Constitution.
Many members of Congress were found to have quoted from the memo to turn away questions about eligibility.
Attached to the memo was an attack piece published by FactCheck.org to dismiss claims that Obama’s short-form Certification of Live Birth, originally published during the 2008 presidential campaign by DailyKos.com, was a forgery.
When Obama released an image of a Hawaiian long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, after years of stating that the document was not available, the Hawaii Department of Health and governor’s office refused to confirm for WND that the image released was an accurate representation of the state’s records.
That’s the document Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s law enforcement investigators say probably is a forgery.
One other voice in the wilderness was that of U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, whose H.R. 1503 said:
The new petition demands that the 112th Congress begin a “full and impartial investigation into the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama.”
View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/congress-...sands-calling/
Petition demands investigation into issue of presidential eligibility
WND
Bob Unruh
4/13/2012
Excerpt:
"Several members of Congress have tentatively broached the subject of the constitutional eligibility of the president, only to retreat when the mainstream media pulled out a well-worn repertoire of “birther” jokes.
But will the lawmakers have courage to begin asking the tough questions when there are tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of their constituents demanding answers?
It soon will be known, as the signatures on a new petition urging a congressional investigation surged past 30,000 and headed toward 40,000 going into the weekend, although it’s been available only for part of this week.
One of the Congress members was Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who said, regarding the constitutional qualifications for president, “Any circumvention of these constitutional requirements would be a slap in the face to the rule of law and our very democracy.”
Also, Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, told a constituent that it appears the courts should resolve the issue, not Congress, and he wondered what claims can be brought to Obama’s doorstep.
At the time the comments surfaced, it appeared that at least some members of Congress were breaking away from recommendations from the Congressional Research Service on how to dismiss such questions.
As WND reported, Jerry W. Mansfield, an information research specialist in the Knowledge Services Group of the Congressional Research Sevice, issued a memo to prepare members of Congress to rebut and defuse questions constituents were asking regarding Obama’s presidential eligibility under the natural-born citizen requirement of the Constitution.
Many members of Congress were found to have quoted from the memo to turn away questions about eligibility.
Attached to the memo was an attack piece published by FactCheck.org to dismiss claims that Obama’s short-form Certification of Live Birth, originally published during the 2008 presidential campaign by DailyKos.com, was a forgery.
When Obama released an image of a Hawaiian long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, after years of stating that the document was not available, the Hawaii Department of Health and governor’s office refused to confirm for WND that the image released was an accurate representation of the state’s records.
That’s the document Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s law enforcement investigators say probably is a forgery.
One other voice in the wilderness was that of U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, whose H.R. 1503 said:
“To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee’s statement of organization a copy of the candidate’s birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution.”
The new petition demands that the 112th Congress begin a “full and impartial investigation into the constitutional eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama.”
View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/congress-...sands-calling/