To Likeitis: Obviously you are not an attorney. If you were, and bothered to read the controlling law, specifically, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (a/k/a the McCarren-Walter Act), as in effect in 1961, you would recognize that, having been born in 1961 in the US to an ???alien??? father and an 18 year-old mother having US citizenship, Obama cannot be a natural born citizen because his mother could not have lived in the US for 5 years after turning 14. The real question is: WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINATING SOMEONE WHO IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER THE US CONSTITUTION, WHY HAVE THE REPUBLICANS SAID NOTHING ABOUT THIS, AND WHY HAS THE MEDIA IGNORED THIS REALITY?
CAMPAIGN 2008
A Sigh of Relief
Team Obama reaches a milestone and relaxes, if only for a moment.
Updated: 10:54 p.m. ET Jun 3, 2008
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For Barack Obama's team, Tuesday was a day unlike any other primary day. Gone were the normal nerves about the final results, the shared leaks of exit polls and the memories of dashed expectations in previous contests.
Since late on Monday evening the Illinois senator's top aides had known they would secure the nomination with a bloc of superdelegates to be rolled out over the course of the coming day. But it wasn't until the elected officials and party insiders started to make their endorsements public early Tuesday afternoon that Team Obama could finally, at long last, begin to relax.
On the plane to St. Paul, Minn., the inner circle could finally savor the historic nature of the victory at hand. The man they worked for was about to become the first African-American candidate ever to top a major-party ticket. Staffers began to hug and joke. Amid the festivities, reporters asked senior strategist David Axelrod if he and his colleagues recognized the milestone they had reached.
"I think that it's going to take a little while for it to sink in," Axelrod said. "We've been so engaged in this process day to day that it's almost surreal that we're at this moment. But I'm proud of him and proud of the country. We started off with the premise that the things that unite us as Americans are greater than the things that divide us and that we could overcome whatever barriers existed. The fact that we have I think says a great deal about the progress that we've made as a country, and I think also a great deal about Barack Obama. So it's an extraordinary night. We're going to celebrate tonight, and then we're going to wake up tomorrow and start all over again, because we're not in this simply to break a barrier. We're in this to try and change the country and the direction of this country."
Other aides expressed a simpler sentiment, after 16 months of travel and hand-to-hand combat with the Clintons. "Relieved," said one senior aide when asked how he felt now that the nomination was clinched. "It will be great to just focus on one thing: the general election."
That's what Obama did in his speech in St. Paul, returning to the original theme of his campaign: a call to turn the page on the policies of the past and forge a new politics.
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