14th Amendment, Obama’s legal citizenship

Send Obama packing via the 14th Amendment

By Bob Beers
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

There is still raging a huge controversy as to whether or not our current sitting President is legally in that chair. Most of the media, television, magazine, newspaper and yes, even the internet, consider the debate to be moot at best and inane at worst. Furthering this brouhaha, the Obama administration and its buddies in the legislature have been less than forthcoming in offering significant proof of Obama’s legal citizenship.

I find myself ambivalent concerning Barack Hussein Obama’s birth record and since so many columnists and bloggers have dedicated reams of text about that subject, I felt it better to look at another side of the issue of Presidential legitimacy. With regard to what Obama has done as both a private citizen and as an elected official of this country, has he by his own actions made himself ineligible for high elected office? The US Constitution says that this is indeed a subject for debate. Let’s take a look at the 14th Amendment:

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

This is the “equality clauseâ€