Topic: Obama's qualification for PoUS

[9Shooter]

I got this in an email from an acquaintance this morning.  I have not thought about the qualification of Obama for Commander-in-Chief from this perspective before.  The author of the email is retired AF-NSA.

In case you haven't heard of William Ayres, he was brought up by Sarah Palin in a stump speech here in CA yesterday, and it has put the Obama campaign on the defensive.
 
In the last hour, Fox asked for opinions as to whether Obama's association with Ayers is a legitimate issue for the election campaign, and if so, why.  My response was not one of the five of 38,000 received at Fox at the end of that particular news segment, and sadly, none of those read really touches the gravity of the issue as does mine.  Ergo, as my captive audience, here's the REAL reason this ought to be an issue BIG TIME:
 
"The Obama - Ayers association IS a legitimate campaign issue, because Obama's demonstrable association with William Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground--a terrorist organization by our federal government's definition--would prevent his being hired by the FBI, the CIA, the DIA the NSA or even the NSA's military arm, the CSS, due to his resulting ineligibility to hold SSI (intelligence security) clearance status.  How is it then that he could possibly be eligible to be Commander-in-Chief or the Chief Executive over such intelligence organizations?  His eligibility to be President in such circumstances is total nonsense!"

[Jeff]

So true.  But there are plenty of idiots that will vote for him because he represents some kind of change.  Some even more incredibly because they think he's the "lesser of two evils."

[AR10ER]

Bill Clintoon could not have been hired by any of those agency's either, it was reported, before he was elected the first time, that he could not have gotten a security clearance of any kind. Yet, once elected, he had the highest security clearance in the land!

So this is not a first. 

[e11charlie]

I think its funny that the sheeple will vote for him just because he says he represents a new change or what ever bullshit he is spewing.  I still have not heard what this change is other than one bullshit politician for another.  either way we are getting screwed.  YEAH TAKE THAT LITTLE MAN

[tankermedic]

You mean people question Obama's qualifications? He has been in charge of... I sure he has been in charge of something. He was in charge of his college newspaper, doesn't that qualify him to be PotUS. That is right, he was a community organizer working Ayers, Wright, and other felons.
The Left is just so blind that they can't see the truth at all, even with it is sitting right in front of them.

[NoviceHunter]

I hate having to defend a slimebag politican here, but the requirements for president are laid out quite simply in the constitution.  35 and natural born, IIRC.

Or is the constitution only strictly interpreted and sacred when our guns are on the line?

There's lots of substance to knock both candidates about, but qualifications isn't one of them.  He meets the above, and if he gets the votes, that's all there is to that point.

(Yes, I'm punchy tonight.)

[tankermedic]

Then why are they knocking Sarah Palin? She has the same, if not more experience being a leader of a town and a state. They hate her because of her "lack of experience", yet they overlook Obama's inexperience and that is one of the main reasons why he chose Senator Biden as his VP.

[NoviceHunter]

Because it's all smokescreen.  Neither candidate wants to define themselves in any real manner, or they lose the image of being centrist, and thus the center of that all powerful bell curve that is the voters.  Nor do they want us digging into their past votes on things we care about.

Obama or McCain will be president.  With both tickets, there's inexperience involved.  That's pretty much irrelevant, and part and parcel of our superficial bullshit system/society.  But all are certainly *qualified*, as per the definition.

And the very fact that we're debating this in a public forum is letting them get away with the misdirection away from who they really are.  (And neither is very appealing, frankly.)

[Jeff]

I'm not convinced Obama is qualified.  I'm not sure he's an American citizen.  He is doing everything he can to not provide proof to the court regarding his eligibility. 

[NoviceHunter]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp

[Jeff]

I've seen that and don't trust Snopes on this (or any political issue).  Take a look at who owns Snopes. 

There is a lawsuit going on right now over this issue.  I believe Obama has 72 hours (a day or two ago) to produce the info required in the lawsuit.  I think it was posted here a while back and I haven't posted all the updates here.

[tankermedic]

This election than I felt the other elections where I have voted. It is a bad situation when all we are doing is trying to postpone the inevitable by voting for the lesser of two evils. Us, the American citizens, the majority have fallen asleep at the wheel of our country. We have forgotten that the politicians work for us, the PEOPLE, not the other way around. We seriously need to hold them accountable, we need to vote every politican who is not doing their part to help us out of office. The majority of politicians have become so egotistical, self-centered, and deceitful that they cannot be trusted to do the work required to help us, the PEOPLE. The only way to really shake up the system would be to vote them all out of office and take away their golden parachutes where they receive money, health care, and so on for the rest of their lives. We should also, take away their gas cards so they can feel the pain at the pump, take away their government rental cars costing 700 dollars a month, and so on. Alas, this will not happen till us, the PEOPLE pull our collective head out of our 4th point of contact. The sad thing is that I don't see that happening anytime soon with the people that our universities are pumping out at a phenomenal rate.