{"id":604,"date":"2011-06-30T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2011-06-30T13:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:23:56","slug":"aliens-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hushbeck.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/aliens-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens for President!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Durbin\u2019s statement saying that an illegal alien could be our president<\/a> is more than just a slip of the tongue, particularly given that he appeared to be reading from prepared remarks.\u00a0 One would think that a senator would at least be familiar with the constitutional requirement that the President be \u201ca natural born Citizen,\u201d especially given all the needless controversy that surrounded the President’s place of birth\u2019s until he finally released his birth certificate.<\/p>\n

Durbin\u2019s statement is really just another indication that for him,\u00a0 like so many on the left, the Constitution is just not all that important.\u00a0 Oh, they will pay lip-service to it when the occasion requires it, but it is really not all that important. They are akin to the Sunday Christian, the one who normally shows up on Sunday,\u00a0 but never actually reads the Bible, and thus it has very little impact on what they think, say and do.<\/p>\n

In fact for many on the left, the Constitution is more of a bother than anything else, something that just gets in the way of the important work they are doing.\u00a0 Case in point: The Obamacare requirement to purchase health insurance.\u00a0 Now under the commerce clause the federal government can regulate interstate commerce.\u00a0 But how can not buying health insurance be considered an act of interstate commerce?\u00a0 This is especially true when you consider that one cannot purchase health insurance from other states to begin with.\u00a0 Thus it really was no surprise when a court ruled this law unconstitutional. It was also not a big surprise when the administration basically ignored their ruling and waited until they could get some judges with a more flexible view of the constitution.<\/p>\n

In fact the Constitution has been one of the biggest barriers to the left, going back to FDR, who tried to pack the court to avoid its limitations.\u00a0 He failed in packing the court, but eventually got the court, and thus the ruling, he wanted.\u00a0\u00a0 The left has followed his blueprint ever since.\u00a0 When faced with a clause that they don\u2019t like, they just reinterpret it to conform to their desires.<\/p>\n

Take the Bill of Rights, for example.\u00a0 The left\u2019s effort to change the meanings of these amendments has been so successful that many now think that the first amendment actually says separation of church and state.\u00a0 Free speech, put in place to protect political speech has been so turned on its head that political speech is now the most regulated.\u00a0 The second amendment which specifically mentions \u201cthe right of the people\u201d\u00a0 is seen as referring to the right of state governments.\u00a0\u00a0 The fourth and fifth and sixth amendments has been extended to enemy combatants, while the fifth amendment protection of private property have been weakened such that the government does not really need to take your property, they can just control what\u00a0 you do as if it were theirs. As for the tenth amendment, that, of course, is meaningless.\u00a0\u00a0 Then of course there are the new \u201crights\u201d that have been found lurking around in the emanation of various penumbras.<\/p>\n

In short, the Bill of Rights does not mean what it says, it only means what the liberals tell us it means, and any attempt to restore it back to its original meaning is loudly decried as \u201cTrying to change the Bill of Rights for the first time in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus Durbin\u2019s statement is really not all that surprising. After all, why should he see the Constitution as a hindrance?\u00a0\u00a0 This also goes a long way towards explaining why so many on the left fear the Tea-Party movement.\u00a0 These people not only read the constitution, they actually want to follow it! Can you get more unreasonable than that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senator Durbin\u2019s statement saying that an illegal alien could be our president is more than just a slip of the tongue, particularly given that he appeared to be reading from prepared remarks.\u00a0 One would think that a senator would at least be familiar with the constitutional requirement that the President be \u201ca natural born Citizen,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,23,24],"tags":[178,327,433,531,659,791,936,1030,1229],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-domestic-policy","category-laws","category-liberal","tag-bill-of-rights","tag-constitution","tag-durbin","tag-free-speech","tag-illegal-alien","tag-liberals","tag-obamacare","tag-president","tag-sunday-christian"],"yoast_head":"\nAliens for President! 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