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?
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He was gracious about Hillary Clinton's talents, suggesting she would play an active role in helping execute the agenda of an Obama administration. "We've certainly had our differences over the last 16 months," he said. "But as someone who's shared a stage with her many times, I can tell you that what gets Hillary Clinton up in the morning—even in the face of tough odds—is exactly what sent her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first campaign in Texas all those years ago; what sent her to work at the Children's Defense Fund and made her fight for health care as First Lady; what led her to the United States Senate and fueled her barrier-breaking campaign for the presidency: an unyielding desire to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, no matter how difficult the fight may be.
"And you can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country, she will be central to that victory. When we transform our energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen. Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton."
It was not always clear things would work out this way. Hillary Clinton began the race as the heavy favorite; her staff in the early going sometimes seemed to regard Obama's mere presence in the contest as an affront. The combat was grueling and at times felt as if it would never end. (Indeed, even as Obama crossed the threshold in the delegate count needed to clinch the nomination and was widely declared the winner, Clinton still declined to exit the race or endorse the party's presumptive standard-bearer.) But Obama tucked away any lingering resentments, calling for the party to come together and focus on the fall. "All of you chose to support a candidate you believe in deeply," he said. "But at the end of the day, we aren't the reason you came out and waited in lines that stretched block after block to make your voice heard. You didn't do that because of me or Senator Clinton or anyone else. You did it because you know in your hearts that at this moment—a moment that will define a generation—we cannot afford to keep doing what we've been doing. We owe our children a better future. We owe our country a better future. And for all those who dream of that future tonight, I say let us begin the work together. Let us unite in common effort to chart a new course for America."
Obama took a less charitable tack in discussing John McCain, his rival in November, who is slated to accept the GOP's presidential nomination in the very same hall come September. Obama noted that McCain had served America "heroically" but added pointedly that there was little respect shown in return. "I honor that service, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine," he said.
"There are many words to describe John McCain's attempt to pass off his embrace of George Bush's policies as bipartisan and new," Obama observed. "But change is not one of them."
The McCain campaign has been hammering at Obama in recent weeks, decrying the Democrat's stated intention to negotiate with hostile foreign leaders and faulting Obama for not having traveled to Iraq. Obama aggressively moved to turn that argument against McCain Tuesday night. "John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks," Obama said. "But maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy—cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota—he'd understand the kind of change that people are looking for."
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