Actual conversation that took place in my house today;

Me: “An Obama appointee withdrew due to ongoing investigations of wrong doing.”

Wife: “which one?”

Me: “Good Point.”

Wife: “No, seriously, which one, Jarrett, Clinton, Napalitono, Richardson, Emmanuel, which one ISNT under investigation?”

You need to alter the rules of your open comment. Since DC Download has now joined Political Fix, this is no longer a local, regional issue blog. Of course it wasn’t that way when you were covering Obama’s rise to power was it?

Now regarding our elected President, where is the Post Dispatch on confirming his natural born citizen status? You can’t keep dodging this issue. If your organization has any journalistic integrity, you will uncover the facts about this issue instead of glossing over it.

I’ll wait, and keeping asking about your progress. Maybe one of your interns will be able to take on this task since you all are so busy covering other, more important stuff.

Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum: just too cute… had to clean the keyboard after reading.

Think|- if they don’t report it it doesn’t exist… that is where the P-D is on that subject.

The bigger question… at least for today is: is this the last Inauguration that the Post will be around to cover? State or federal.

Can’t I just eat my waffle?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DPJ063Iy8&eurl=

01-21-09, Chauncey Gardener will no longer be able to duck questions.

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Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m just DYING to hear all the juicy stuff that table full of reporters dug up reading through 60,000 pages of Blunt’s emails.

Great post Bob Z. The Political Fix staff loves their waffles too.

Watch for a credible candidate for a major Missouri state office that will be a PRO-LIFE DEMOCRAT. The Democrats have it right on so many issues except for abortion. A Pro-LIfe Democrat will be strongly embraced by the working class folks and the social conservatives.

This will be THE winning formula for successful Missouri politicians of the future.

60 Minutes story tonight: depraved indifference murder for drunk driving death: every state campaign I’m run, 3 times for state rep, harsher penalties for drunk driving has been part of my platform, but I dont agree with the murder prosecution for a drunk driving death, mainly because I dont think it meets the standards because the alcohol clouds the judgment of whether one should be driving, and mostly because I think it’s grandstanding without deterrent effect, tho I’ll presume the sincerity of the prosecutor. Some questions: .25 alcohol resulting in death the same prosecution as .09 (legal limit most places .08); I dont think so, so why the difference? And arrest for .25 shouldnt that then be severe penalty whether you actually killed someone or not? I think emphasis on severe penalties for drunk driving more deterrent than the sensational prosecutions for murder, and I think they’re wrong because not the requisite intent. Penalties for .09 probably should be different than for .25, but breathalizers like Illinois seem the answer. Maybe we should have them as standard equipment in all cars. More effect than seatbelts? and they’re required. Just saying.

Biggest non news of the week:
Slay is one crooked slimebag…..

CHALLENGE (with answer), CAN ANYONE PROVE THIS WRONG?:–

1. Constitution Article II requires USA President to be “natural born citizen”.

2. BHO’s website admits his dad was Kenyan/British, not American, citizen when BHO was born.

3. BHO is therefore not a “natural born citizen” (irrespective of Hawaiian birth or whether he may be a 14th Amendment “citizen” of USA) — confirmed in the Senate’s own McCain qualification resolution (that both parents must be citizens of USA) co-authored by BHO.

4. Supreme Court has already docketed two upcoming conferences, 1/9/09 and 1/16/09 — between dates Congress counts electoral votes (1/8/09) and Presidential inauguration (1/20/09) — to address Berg Case and fashion relief on BHO’s eligibility to be President.

5. Since the fact of BHO’s dad being Kenyan/British not in dispute, Supreme Court rules on Summary Judgment to enjoin BHO’s inauguration as President.

6. Therefore, BHO is not inaugurated as President.

7. Vice President Elect Biden is inaugurated Acting President under the 20th Amendment to serve until new President is determined — the procedure for which determination to be set out by Congress and/or the Supreme Court so long as in conformance with the Constitution.

ANSWER TO ABOVE CHALLENGE

IF, when counting the electoral votes, Congress WERE TO find by 1/8/09 that Obama — not being an Article II “natural born citizen” (father Kenyan/British, not American) — fails to qualify as President, Biden would become the full fledged President under 3 USC 19 (free to pick his own VP such as Hillary) AND THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR DEFERRAL TO THE SUPREME COURT to enjoin Obama’s inauguration relegating Biden to being merely Acting President under the 20th Amendment until a new President were duly determined.

(The preferable choice, at least for the Democrats, would seem obvious.)

Thank God we voted out the corrupt Republicans. Now we can get some corrupt Democrats in there!

MO Son of a Local Prez,

I agree. I voted for a Pro-Life Democrat in Sue Schoemehl and would love to vote for more. But I am sorry, I won’t vote for anyone that isn’t Pro-Life. I am typically a conservative/libertarian voter, but would like more options.

I am not tied to any one party, but the way things are today, I really don’t have many choices. Sorry folks, this is a moral issue for me and that isn’t going to change.

Think! - the current Globe issue is covering the Obama non-citizen story and has a cover with his Kenyan Hospital on it. Can you imagine what a tizzy the media would be in if this story was about a Republican.

MoSON - how sad that the left has to embrace conservative social issues in order to win and it really is amazing how it works for them. But you guys really confuse me. I thought choice was so important.

Good addition, Ted. Also we must not forget that Obama’s grandmother confirmed that she was witness to his birth in Kenya.

It seems that Obama has not learned a lesson that all of us learn as teenagers. The longer you withhold the truth and lie to cover it up, the harder it is to tell the truth. This may have been an innocent oversight to start, but now there is no question that he is covering this issue up and hoping it goes away. If there wasn’t a cover up, then why on earth would he not make it go away by releasing one simple document?

The Supreme Court and Congress need to act before the inauguration. They should have acted before the electoral votes were accepted. They should have acted before the election. They should have acted before accepting his candidacy. The worst possible outcome of this mess is to ignore the issue.

Good point Centrist. I went to their site and saw many more posts that I expected expressing outrage at Obama.

http://www.globemagazine.com/story/286

Everyone, feel free to join in.

(Jo perhaps you have some contacts at the Globe that could help you out with your research)

As someone raised Jewish, tho I’m more ecumenical now, often going to Cathedral Basilica in my neighborhood or Grace Church in North County, tho always feeling proud of my Jewish heritage and close to it, I try hard to be objective about mideast peace and war. For example, Palestinians have often lived in camps with open sewers since 1948, 50 or more years, an atrocity long overdue for correction. Gaza is a tough problem. I dont think people should resent Israel defending itself from Hamas’s rockets. It’s their security, the decision how best to safeguard it in their precarious situation, should be theirs. But the west should push forward with the peace process. We should pray that Gaza should not be the incubator of a larger conflict, and some movement seems evident. But I understand that the palestinians in Gaza are by and large terribly poor. Most warfare is directly or indirectly economic. As I always say, middle-class people dont go to war, they might damage their SUVs. So it seems to me that Israel, the West, and other mideast nations should build up the economy of Gaza and other poor arab and muslim communities; we/they should nto take no for an answer in doing this. Sure there will be complications, but as I said in letters to the editor (all unpublished) the day after 9/11, a billion dollars in economic aid will go farther in bringing peace than a billion dollars in warfare. Without judging the was in Iraq and Iran, tho it would be somewhat easy to, let’s think about what peace could have been brought about by using all those dollars for economic development of palestinian communities long overdue for that sort of middle-class dream. I hope our new president recognizes that approach. I’m not always right, but think I am in this case. Not judging, just saying.

> Biggest non news of the week:
> Slay is one crooked slimebag…..

So chipdaniels, do you have any FACTS on which you are basing this statement? Or is this just the usual meaningless attacks on the most effective St. Louis mayor in decades?

I was waiting in a check-out line and read the National Enquirer headline.
“OBAMA NOT U.S. CITIZEN”!

Underneath the main headline:
“ALIEN BABY ADOPTED BY BRAD AND ANGIE”!

Raise your hand if you think Israel is rolling into Gaza because they want to do it now before Bush leaves office. The US weapons industry should be making a huge profit on all this, selling all the jets and bombs Israel needs to stay there for eternity. I was beginning to think that I would never be able to abandon all hope of any peace in the region. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. (please note sarcasm)

Hamas has been trying hard to hit Israeli citizens with their rockets and only rarely do they succeed. Israel claims to try very hard NOT to hit Palestinian citizens, but it seems that’s largely what they are doing. It is not the first time Israel has resorted to collective punishment on citizens, whether they are in Gaza, the West Bank, or Lebanon.