The Bernie-Obama affair

In a recent prison interview, Barack Obama Bernie Madoff told an interviewer, "I can't believe I got away with it."

Well, Bernie only got away with half of it: the money half. The lying half of it has landed him in federal prison for a 150 year sentence. Given the draconian nature of federal sentencing laws, I'm sure we can expect Bernie to serve at least three-and-a-half years.

That should be time enough for him to write his memoirs, find a publisher, remake himself into a victim and actually earn some honest (everything is relative today, isn't it?) money.

How much Obama gets away with is yet to be seen. Questions about the legitimacy of his citizenship seem to be gaining traction. I say that because the world's greatest deliberative body paused from its stimulation labors long enough to pass a resolution "affirming" that "the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961."

The Senate offered no evidence for its claims. That's not surprising, since there is none.

More importantly, it offered no evidence of the vote; it was a voice vote, and this summer the "folks back home" will hear that "their" senator most certainly did not vote for "that" resolution. It will have passed by a margin of zero for and 100 against. So much for the world's greatest deliberative body.

Please honk if you think these people have been "serving" America too long.

I found it somewhat amusing that Sen. John McCain's campaign lawyers said they explored the citizenship issue, but declined to proceed with it because there was no evidence that Obama was not born in the U.S. I guess that means the next time I try to get back into the U.S. without a passport, they will have to let me in unless there is evidence I was not born there. Give that one a try, folks.

Given the quality of McCain's legal advice, it may be a blessing he didn't win the election. Here's what the Constitution has to say about it:

"No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States" (Article II, Section 1).

The onus is on Obama to prove that he meets the requirements set forth in the Constitution. If he could do so, he most certainly would have by now. It doesn't matter if he got 100 percent of the vote. He's not eligible to serve. The Senate has no power or authority to intervene in this argument, it cannot retroactively declare him a citizen, and the voice vote demonstrates several important things:

1. A majority of our current senators are too stupid to know this;

2. They think the Constitution doesn't matter and that they are not bound by law;

3. They don't want any record of their vote or stupidity available where the people they "serve" can see it.

I suspect that the reaction many Americans are having to the Obama citizenship fraud is similar to the one I had to the initial claims of Bernie's financial fraud: It's simply not possible.

But as Bernie's fraud and his new residence at Club Fed demonstrates, it is possible. And the Democratic Party has been complicit in this fraud from the day Obama filed his election papers. Even Obama's lowly college entrance papers have been "sealed." His campaign website, however, is still active. And you are invited to contribute.