Over the years, there have been legislative attempts to redefine the constitutional eligibility requirement for the presidency to permit foreign-born candidates to run for the office.
None of those efforts has been successful, yet, by default, American courts and the U.S. Congress have turned their backs on the Constitution by simply ignoring thorny questions about eligibility.
Think about this.
With all of the busybody meddling the courts and Congress have perpetrated on the states and the American people, they have demonstrated no interest in ensuring the Constitution is followed on one of the most fundamental principles enunciated regarding who can serve as president of the United States.
It's almost surreal.
Make no mistake about this. This is a matter that is far more important than the controversies surrounding Barack Obama. It goes to the very heart of what kind of a country we will have in the future – one under the rule of law or one under the evolving rule of political inertia and happenstance.
Given all I have witnessed over the last four years, I am not optimistic that the Supreme Court will take up such a review or, even less likely, affirm the clear meaning of the Constitution.
I have said from the beginning, doubts about Obama and the active cover-up he and his lawyers have pursued make this issue so politically charged that America may not be able to sort this through for years or even decades to come.
However, thanks to the investigation of a courageous sheriff in Arizona, the issue of Obama's deception is not going away.
There is no time like the present, on the eve of another presidential nominating process and election, for the American people to be heard on this issue.
Should Obama not be forced to answer questions about his apparently fraudulent birth certificate?
Should America not have a political and enforcement mechanism for assuring the rule of law is followed by the nation's top governmental executive?
Should America not be carefully crafting policy and laws to ensure that only eligible candidates are permitted on presidential and vice presidential ballots this year and in future years?
Aren't we way past the time when the country is permitted to have a free and open debate and dialogue about this issue?
Isn't it past time for the media to ask questions, seek answers and perform their traditional independent watchdog role over government?
If the founders intended for issues of eligibility to be determined only by voters, why would they have included the eligibility provision in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution?
If we are willing to overlook or de facto scrap this provision of the Constitution, where do we stop?
One thing is certain: Without a strong expression of the will of the American people on this matter, the inertia will continue. That's what Obama is counting on. That's what other ineligible candidates are counting on. That's what the political establishment is counting on. That's what the media are counting on.
I'm counting on you.
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