Barbara Boxer Million Dollar Home Undisclosed: Boxer Home Bought with $500,000 from Political Contributions

The Foundation for Ethics in Public Service has asked the Department of Justice to investigate Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for not disclosing a home valued over one million dollars in Oakland, California, and paid for with $500,000 from political campaign contributions. The property is co-owned with Boxer, her husband, son and daughter-in-law. There are also claims that she held 7 mortgages with Countrywide Financial - the mortgage lender at the center of the mortgage scandal.

Barbara Boxer

Corruption for Boxer, whom Senator John McCain says is the most anti-defense, bitterly partisan senator in the Senate, drones on. From Pajamas Media's breaking news:

Despite the fact that Senator Boxer had an ownership in 854 Longridge Road [in Oakland], she failed to report this substantial real property asset on any of her personal financial disclosures between 2002 and 2010.  She had also failed to report the mortgage on the property.  Further, she failed to report the purchase of 854 Longridge Road in 2002.  Each year Boxer was required to have filed a “full and complete report.”

From The Washington Examiner on October 13th:

Deeds of trust compiled by...the Foundation for Ethics in Public Service show that the California Democrat and her husband, Stewart, held seven mortgages with Countrywide, the company which gave VIP mortgage discounts to influential customers, including Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-CT, and Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND.

If Boxer received preferential treatment, it would be like President Bill Clinton ruling on the definition of "is..." 

The couple sold the home in 2006 for $1.87 million, according to Zillow.com. She did not list the property on financial disclosure records because she didn't have to. Technically it did not generate income. But shouldn't the extra cash generated by refinancing be considered income - especially if they used it to buy another property? 

Boxer's son, Douglas and his wife Amy, live in the house paid for by $500,000 from Boxer's Democrat contributors. Had enough yet?

John McCain on anti-Defense Senator Barbara Boxer

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Chris Coons Bearded Marxist Sued Three Times: Employees Supporting Coon's Opponent Fired

Christine O'Donnell's Democrat opponent, Chris Coons - The Bearded Marxist was sued by a Dennis Parkstone, a New Castle Delaware county employee in 2007, police Corporal Trinidad Navarro and the brother of Sherry Freebery who was the brother of Coons opponent in 2004, Sherry Freebery.

Chris Coons Sued by County Employees for Partisan Firing

Parkstone said he was fired by New Castle County, where Coons was the County Executive, after expressing support for Coons opponent Sherry Freebery. Navarro said he was passed-over for promotion due to his support for a police chief not appointed by Coons, and Freebery's brother said he supported his sister, Sherry, and lost his job as General Manager of Special Services for New Castle County.

Thug politics in Delaware, mimicking the White House. Remember Inspector General Gerald Walpin's firing. Come on Delaware! Christine O'Donnell has to be the better choice for the U.S. Senate. Coons can't even name the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment.

If you are not up-to-speed on Chris Coon's Republican opponent Christine O'Donnell for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, this is a good place to start.

Thanks to Gateway Pundit and WBOC did the digging.

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

Bertha Lewis' New Acorns Won't Fall Far from the Tree

All ACORN offices will be closed as of April 1, 2010, but will rise again from their ashes in the form of numerous small, multi-named organizations across the map. The challenge will be to find the new ACORNs, and watch them like a hawk as we go forward to the November 2010 elections. These people, like a particularly foul stench, never go away. ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis will likely run the new organizations, most of which are not new -  cobbled together under her wing and still an angry beast.

Bertha Lewis 

Lewis, who replaced ACORN founder and CEO Wayne Rathke after a financial scandal,  is a co-founder of the Working Families Party, which is still under investigation by the Federal government for election finance law abuses and voter fraud.

After BigGovernment's reveal of ACORN's willingness to turn a blind eye to an operation of 13-year-old-Salvadoran girls, smuggled into this country for prostitution, and cogent advice on how the business could hide income, Bertha Lewis was forced to acknowledge some of the organization's weaknesses, which resulted because of "the problems of being poor and minority in urban America." Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote this about Lewis' statement:

And herein lies the deeper scandal -- it's not just the denial of what is right in front of your face, it's denial of a bod mode of operating, of a sickness in policy and philosophy. For as much as the Right is attached for being dismissive of the poor and most vulnerable, the Left clutches that which continues the plight of government dependence among so many.

Trying to discern where ACORN-by-another-name lives, will be the equivalent of catching a handful of air for awhile. As we approach the elections, we should find the "workers" standing on every street corner. We need to follow them back to the paymaster at the end of each day. Where the money is, still funded by American taxpayers, you'll find the stench the foulest.

Jennifer Firth is Scott Brown Sexual Harassment Accuser?

Here it comes friends. News today that newly-electedSenator Scott Brown (R-Mass) was accused of sexual harrassment by Jennifer Firth, a campaign worker in 1998.

Jennifer Firth

A funny thing happened after Firth's lawsuit was filed, however.  Firth's attorney, Harvey Schwartz, withdrew as her counsel saying "to the best of [his] knowledge, information and belief, the above allegations [by Firth] are not supported by 'good grounds.' The next day, Firth withdrew her suit.

"The next day, Jennifer Firth withdrew her suit. It was dismissed with prejudice, which means it can never be re-filed. Brown told a local newspaper that her lawyer had decided to withdraw after he was presented with letters and email messages that proved she'd been harassing Brown."

Here are Firth's original accusations, after taking "offense" and quitting the Brown campaign (Gawker has the original story):

According to Firth's complaint, Brown engaged in "offensive" conduct that caused her to quit his campaign; he then tried to "defame and humiliate" her by spreading rumors to her colleagues that she "had made sexual advances" towards him during his campaign. She also alleged that Brown told several people that he'd had an "intimate relationship" with her and that he had a stack of sexually explicit letters that Firth had sent him. In her suit, Firth says that she'd never been sexually intimate with Brown, nor did she ever send him the aforementioned letters. A 2000 article in the local paper, the Sun Chronicle reported that Brown had denied the charges; for her part, Firth said she felt that filing the suit was "the only way I could stop this."

In 2007, the Boston Globe printed the above photo of Firth, identifying her as "Selectwoman Jennifer Firth," in a story about the release of her social security number.

Is there a scandal here? I don't think so.

Boehner calls for Pelosi Hoyer Investigation: Boehner Introduces Privileged Resolution

Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) introduced a Privileged Resolution on the floor of the House today, calling for an investigation into Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and their handling of the Rep. Eric Massa scandal and claims that he had inappropriately groped House staffers.

This threat to Pelosi and Hoyer, may explain this report yesterday:

House Democrats, armed with a thick docket of Republican ethics cases, are putting the GOP leadership on notice: Throw mud at them and they'll pitch rocks at a Republican glass house."

Boehner either didn't get the memo or is not intimidated by the Democrat's rocks.

Pelosi allegedly told Roll Call that she only learned of the accusations against Massa on March 10th, yet a report in the Washington Post on March 11th claims the Speaker knew about the sexual harrassment claims  as early as October 2009.

The Privileged Resolution goes on, but the short story is, Boehner believes Pelosi may not have acted against one of her own, in an appropriate manner, and cites this House Rule:

Whereas, clause one of Rule XXXIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, titled “Code of Conduct,” states “A Member, Delegate, Resident Commission, officer, or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House”

The Resolution calls for the formation of an Investigative Subcommittee, and protection from deleted emails, text messages, voicemails and other records, and the findings reported to the House no later than June 30th, 2010.


Obviously, there was no justice for the abused staffers, if there were abused staffers, and how often do you see an Ethics investigation begin, and shut down, in one week's time, with no conclusions reached - especially when the charges involve sex?


Read the full Privileged Resolution at Daily Caller.


Related and Background:
Massa Groping Charges Dropped

Acorn Brooklyn Cleared in Pimp Prostitute Undercover Tapes

A five-month investigation into a tape showing Brooklyn's ACORN office giving advice to a pimp and a prostitute has been cleared of any wrong doing. The tape shows ACORN employees providing information on how to smuggle 13-year-old foreign girls into the country, put them in a house of prostitution and avoid paying taxes on profits. See videos below.

 Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe

The prosecutor, Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes, is a member of SEIU's Working Families Party and is closely tied to ACORN. Apparently, the investigation ended because the prosecution said the two people posing as the pimp and prostitute, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe, edited their video - rendering it "unclear" what the ACORN workers said or did not say.

I'd like to see the unedited version, and I bet you would too. I'd also like to hear just where the stories don't quit gel. Do you think we'll hear where there was insufficient clarity was apparent.

Founding Bloggers makes the point that Hynes is a member of the Working Families Party, by virtue of a pledge he signed, and an endorsement he received. "You have to seek the endorsement and make a commitment to the party."

The whole thing stinks on ice.

In the Giles and O'Keefe undercover tape in a San Diego ACORN office, ACORN spokesman, David Lagstein allegedly told members of the East County Democrat Club that Attorney General Jerry Brown plans to find fault with the videographers (Giles and O'Keefe). Follow the link and hear the audio.

BigGovernment says California governer Jerry Brown will have a tough time going after Giles and O'Keefe for illegally taping the ACORN employees, as his aides "secretly recorded phone conversations with at least 5 reporters.

Let's hear what is "unclear" in the Brooklyn tapes. Watch the videos below and let me know if you think they could have been edited to show a result that clearly was not a part of the tapes. Also, see links to other videos of other ACORN offices around the country.

Related and Background:

New York ACORN Pimp and Prostitute - Child Prostitution Undercover Tapes 

Washington, DC ACORN Child Prostitution Undercover Tapes

Baltimore ACORN Pimp and Prostitute - Child Prostitution Undercover Tapes

San Diego ACORN Pimp and Prostitute Undercover Tapes 

San Bernardino ACORN Pimp and Prostitute Undercover Part #1

San Bernardino ACORN Pimp and Prostitute Undercover Tapes - Woman admits to murdering her husband!

More on the San Bernardino ACORN Visit - with tape



ACORN New York Undercover Tape 1 (video) ACORN New York Undercover Tape 2 (video)

Chappaquiddick Joke on Ted Kennedy

ChicagoRay found this video. Ed Klein tells the story of Chappaquiddick being one of Ted Kennedy's favorite jokes. Klein is a former Editor of The New York Times Magazine and currently the foreign editor of Newsweek. He is releasing a new book on Ted Kennedy, and the question is, who isn't? If this is true, the joke is really on Ted Kennedy. He may be lionized today, but surely those hearing the "Chappaquiddick" jokes, had to wonder what kind of a sick joke Ted Kennedy was.

As he has been memorialized today, it is obvious that he was beloved by his family, that he stepped up for all the nieces and nephews who were fatherless, that his own children loved him dearly, and that he knew how to get done what he wanted to get done in the halls of the U.S. Senate.

What I remember about Ted Kennedy is the Kennedy-McCain Amnesty Bill - one of the most devastating Bills to ever hit Capitol Hill. I won't forgive Kennedy or McCain for that one. I won't forget what he did to Judge Robert Bork. It was cruel and contemptible and it all lies. For those who want to see as his pompous tirade about the Judge as merely political rhetoric, your political world is much different than mine. I didn't know much about Robert Bork at the time, as most Americans didn't, but Kennedy's comments were uncalled for and only a black heart could stand in the Senate and rip a good man in this way:

Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy… President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.

This was not acceptable for the U.S. Senate, and he should have been excoriated by his peers, but he he was not - it's just politics. And may we all be reminded that Ted Kennedy wanted no part of windmills or oil rigs off his Hyannis Port shoreline, but he didn't mind if they were in your backyard.

I have no way to know whether Ted Kennedy had real remorse for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but I feel he did. Who would not, but you can read what some of the locals had to say, as well as some astonishing, odd and unusual details of what really happened here. Ted Kennedy's real legacy is proof that we should make it unlawful to be a career Senator or U.S. Representative.





 Chappaquiddick Joke on Ted Kennedy

Comparing John Ensign's Virtues to Barney Frank's

Senator John Ensign (R-NV) had an affair with a campaign staffer while he was separated from this wife. That makes John Ensign look like a high schooler compared to BarneyFrank's. Comparing John Ensign's virtues to Barney Frank's demonstrates all that is wrong with Washington politics and the Democrat party.

John Ensign - Darlene Ensign

Ensign was separated from his wife, Darlene, during a portion of the time the affair lasted. The staffer, Cindy Hampton was married. Both Cindy Hampton and her husband Doug Hampton, worked for Ensign: Doug as manager of Ensign's personal Senate office and Cindy for his reelection committee, the Ensign Battle Born PAC, as well as Treasurer of several other committees for Ensign's reelection. Both left Ensign's employment in April 2008. The affair began in December 2007 and lasted until August 2008.

Reports are that the Ensigns were separated from April to July 2008. The creepiest part about this saga is that the Hamptons and the Ensigns were close and long-time "couple" friends. Doug Hampton seems to place only blame only on Ensign:

...[he] ruined our lives and careers and left my family in shambles. We have lost significant income, suffered indescribable pain and emotional suffering.” He said that he had tried to hire lawyers to obtain “restitution” from Ensign.

That's what happens when you marry someone who makes poor decisions. In my opinion, after it "happens" you decide how you are going to live with it. You don't blackmail the other party.

It is Cindy Hampton who had a duty and obligation not to inflict this on her husband. Cindy Hampton made that decision, unless there is something we don't know about the affair. Doug Hampton's demands for "restitution" show a bit of what he is made of. Having said that, it also shows us something about Ensign.

What kind of man can have an affair with the wife of his office manger and not feel incredible guilt, and the wife of one of your best friends? How do you look into the eyes of that man each morning, or talk to him on the telephone as they undoubtedly did often? What happens inside a man to let this happen?
 

The Ensigns have been through therapy and they say they love each other. They say they have put their marriage back together. Ensign has since resigned his leadership position as chair of the Republican Policy Committee. There's more to the story and you can read it here.

The Washington Times' Wesley Pruden had an opinion piece up last week and he made some excellent points (reformatted for emphasis):

Congressional Democrats are more likely to grant a pass for naughty conduct than Republicans. This is not necessarily driven by political ideology. Republicans are no less likely to fall to temptation, but are more likely to understand that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. Republicans generally pay a dearer price to their constituents. Newt Gingrich of Georgia and Robert Livingston of Louisiana each had to give up the position of Speaker of the House when caught in embarrassing indiscretions. When Rep. Barney Frank got caught allowing his live-in male lover to run a whorehouse in their apartment, the House censured him (though calling it a "reprimand") and his constituents in starchy Massachusetts continued to return him to Washington by wide margins.

Comparing John Ensign's virtues to Barney Franks', who the Democrats let get by with a "reprimand," is laughable, but certainly no joke. Democrats stand in the tsunami of their fellow Democrat's involvement with the housing crises and there, riding the highest tide, is Barney Frank - with not one Democrat showing an ounce of virtue in the scandal that began bringing America down. It's not enough that Franks and his boyfriend could turn their own neighborhood into a red-light district, but Franks' own cuddly relationship with Fannie Mae exec, Herb Moses was barely reported in the mainstream media. It doesn't get any more disgusting than that.

Remember when Barney jumped out ahead of everyone and said it was open season on Sarah Palin and her family was fair game because Palin "made an issue of her family." That worked because the media also wanted to knock the Palins to their knees. But they didn't want the same for Barney Frank. Don't you think when a house of ill repute is being operated out of your own home and you are a U.S. Congressman, the press should care? I appreciate that Senator Ensign gave up his leadership role in the wake of this "scandal."

I wish Democrats would offer to sacrifice for the good of the country when they are "caught," or at least, I wish Democrat leadership would demand such sacrifice. But such virtue is a distant memory from another time, another era. Photo: EXPOSAY.COM

Tom Daschle & Nancy Killefer Withdraw from Obama's Nomination

I was in the middle of the post below when the announcement came that Tom Daschle (D-SD) has withdrawn his nomination to Secretary of Health and Human Services. One thing that strikes me, is all the talk about how "popular" Daschle, the former Majority and Minority Leader is in Washington.

He is not so popular with his voters. The good people of South Dakota "withdrew" him from the Senate a few years ago and placed Republican John Thune in the Daschle seat in 2004. Our Senators and Representatives should never discuss the "popularity" of their peers in Congress - especially when justifying the nomination of a person who has broken the law. Here are my thoughts before the withdrawal announcement - Jim DeMint deserves praise? UPDATE: HotAir is reporting that in addition to the "evaded" taxes we know about, Daschle also failed to pay $83,333 in consulting fees in 2007 and he claimed $15,000 in charitable donations to unqualified "charities," as well as this:

And that brings up another point. The Obama transition team knew full well that Daschle had significant tax problems when that vetting process began. Why did Obama insist on keeping Daschle at HHS? Daschle had spent the last few years as a high-profile lobbyist for the industry Obama wanted him to regulate, which is exactly what Obama promised not to do during the campaign. So now we have a lobbyist and a tax cheat rolled up into one person, whom Obama insists should run Health and Human Services, and he knew all of this well before announcing Daschle and submitting his name for confirmation. It’s not like Obama can claim to be surprised.

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has once again shown what integrity is all about. He is asking President Obama to withdraw former Senator Tom Daschle's nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services for his failure to pay required taxes. Tom Daschle is one more tax evader nominated for entrance to the Obama inner circle. How pathetic are these nominations?

Nancy Killefer, the appointee to head the newly created Obama Chief Performance Officer czar, has today withdrawn her nomination - BECAUSE she did not pay taxes for household help. This woman held a high-powered job with the U.S. Treasury. During those years, it appears she paid her taxes. After leaving the Treasury, she "began" not paying, and she also stopped paying her quarterly taxes. The IRS put a lien on her house. Five months later, Killefer resolved the lien.

Killefer's husband is an economics professor, and she was a member of the Treasury Department under Clinton - she even oversaw the "modernization" of the IRS.

I think we've found the way to clean-up Congress. I'm calling for a complete audit of everyone in Congress. Any disgression and they're out. That will give the American people the opening to start all over again.

The Obama AWOL Birth Certificate Update

~Snooper~

OK. For the recent uninformed visitor that goes by "Barbara", due to "her" inability to do "her" own homework and due to "her" obvious lack of the ability to think for "herself" (could be attributed to "her" self-proclaimed age of 62), the following are the posts, articles and items I have collected since last July. I have them classified as COLB and COLB Forgery. My personal posts are located here and here.

At one point in time, I was under the understanding that the issue of Barack's citizenship was a non-issue and the ensuing witch hunt that was prevalent from last January was an embarrassment. It wasn't until the weekend of the Move America Forward major and huge on-line Troopathon that my original opinion of this issue began to fade. During the time that I thought the issue was an atrocity perpetrated from the nuts on the right, I did not write on the subject but visited other sites and left comments trying to persuade others to drop it and fight on issues that mattered. I never brought up the issue on my Blog Talk Radio shows either.

That all changed on 04 JUL 08 thanks to my friend Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs whom I disagreed with on this issue of the COLB v Birth Certificate. Since that time, using my investigative skills and my Spook training and verbiage analysis training and applications learned, developed and expounded upon for decades, I began to see an underlying current in this issue as it began to unfold. Most missed it. Some still miss it. I bring up that which most have missed or perhaps disregarded was the fact that Barack Hussein Obama can place this whole issue to bed very easily and quickly yet has not done so. The question is why he hasn't to this point.

It could be because of the audacity of people to dare question him. We have all seen the way he reacted (never responded - there is a difference) to anyone questioning him on any issue. It could be his narcissistic and arrogance that has caused him to not place this issue to bed and that has resulted in his inability to appear weak and cornered. He, being the typical American liberal democrat, cannot ever be seen as weak or vulnerable or to take personal responsibility for a bad decision and that bad decision was to drop this issue back in April of 2008.

He could have very well ended all discussions of his natural-born status when John McCain's was ended but he did not. Perhaps because he could not and cannot still.

In April of 2008, Senator McCain's "natural born" citizen status was settled by Senate Resolution 511. I thought it peculiar that Patrick Leahy would make the comment that the term "natural born citizen" was not defined in the Constitution when it clearly is defined. One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to detect the Constitutional definition when the definition is clearly stated in the Constitution. There is other verbiage in the Resolution that is equally suspect.

[...] Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President; [...]

This statement was added to the Resolution by none other than Barack Hussein Obama. Why?

In the process of my self-admonitions of following for a well crafted scam, I ran across this post recently after Pamela Geller rocked my world back in July.

[...] From Obama own website:

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor
sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship
automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

Question?

How could it expire, if he never had it? [END]

Indeed. My learning and my cravings for knowledge will never end on this subject. In the linked post, I learned several other items of interest and I do believe that honest people will also see the light, as it were. Naturally, the apologists that can never admit to being in error will claim high and mighty blissful ignorance.

That segment linked above has since been scrubbed from Obama's web site and by his own admissions, he is of Kenyan birth. Perhaps that is why the Kenyan Ambassador to the United States has stated in a recent interview that Obama's birthplace in Kenya is well known and why Kenya has proclaimed a National Holiday in honor of one of their own ascending to the Presidency of the United States. I did a special show on the Kenyan connection last week where we aired the interview with the Ambassador. If Obama was not born in Kenya, why then did his Kenyan citizenship expire in 1982 and how did he come to have dual citizenship when Kenya does not recognize or allow dual citizenship other than British?


A shortened portion of that interview can be heard here and the entire interview can be heard here, complete with mundane chit-chat. The first 10 minutes is fairly boring actually.

By the way, the photo to the left is not a viable birth certificate but it is just as valid as the COLB posted around the internet. I find it comical in a sad sense that the COLB that was proven to be a forgery is still being presented as authentic when the original postings as MoveOn, KOS and Obama's web sites have all been removed. There is a pathology to that I am sure.

Barack Obama and his campaign have spent nearly $800K to NOT reveal the authentic vault birth certificate that every American is issued upon birth. The average cost of obtaining a certified copy of the obtainable birth certificate is $10. Why not spend the $10 and put this issue to rest. If he is in fact a natural born citizen, so be it and we can get along fighting his Marxist nonsense and his pathetically vague policies.


The forged COLB being passed off as a birth certificate (a COLB is not a BC) process is detailed here. Thank God for document forensic science.

It is said that there is a vault copy in Hawaii dated 1961 which is type writer written and sealed from public view and is said to have been released on November 15th. That never happened.

The lad to the right is the forgery dude and he has been cornered and caught. This happened on 06 JUL 08 and the Obama Media is oddly silent. He is or was the Obama Spokesman that stated that the forgery was real and was the official birth certificate. Oddly enough, or not, Labolt didn't know that a COLB wasn't a birth certificate as most of the libtards don't know as well. Curious, ain't it? This is merely one more example in a very long and historical list of examples of how the Leftinistra repeat a lie for long periods of time hoping and knowing that the easily led and easily duped with believe a lie when it is heard over and over, over a long period of time.

Always remember this: "If the facts do not support the theory, Destroy the facts!"

Further studies and searching revealed this paper written in 2006: in part, pdf located here:

AMENDING THE NATURAL BORN CITIZEN REQUIREMENT: GLOBALIZATION AS THE IMPETUS AND THE OBSTACLE
SARAH P. HERLIHY

INTRODUCTION

The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the “stupidest provision” in the Constitution,1 “undecidedly un-American,”2 “blatantly discriminatory,”3 and the “Constitution’s worst provision.”4 Since Arnold Schwarzenegger’s victory in the California gubernatorial recall election of 2003, commentators and policy-makers have once again started to discuss whether Article II of the United States Constitution should be amended to render naturalized citizens eligible for the presidency.5 Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution defines the eligibility requirements for an individual to become president. Article II provides:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.6

Although these sixty-two words are far from extraordinary, the natural born citizen provision is controversial because it prevents over 12.8 million Americans from being eligible for the presidency.7 In addition to Governor Schwarzenegger, the natural born citizen clause prohibits many other prominent Americans from becoming president, including Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm,8 former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao,9 and over 700 Medal of Honor Winners.10 Even though many of these individuals have served in high political positions or fought in a war on behalf of America, they are not able to become president simply because they were not born in the United States.11

The natural born citizen clause of the United States Constitution should be repealed for numerous reasons. Limiting presidential eligibility to natural born citizens discriminates against naturalized citizens, is outdated and undemocratic, and incorrectly assumes that birthplace is a proxy for loyalty. The increased globalization of the world continues to make each of these reasons more persuasive. As the world becomes smaller and cultures become more similar through globalization, the natural born citizen clause has increasingly become out of place in the American legal system. However, even though globalization strengthens the case for a Constitutional amendment, many Americans argue against abolishing the requirement. In a recent USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll taken November 19–21, 2004, only 31% of the respondents favored a constitutional amendment to abolish the natural born citizen requirement while 67% opposed such an amendment.12 Although some of the reasons for maintaining the natural born citizen requirement are rational, many of the reasons are based primarily on emotion. Therefore, although globalization is one impetus that should drive Americans to rely on reason and amend the Constitution, this paper argues that common perceptions about globalization ironically will convince Amendment. [...]

Why would the natural born clause be an obstacle?

And, in whose path is the obstacle in the way of? Interesting this is indeed. The answer is in further study and discovery, using the legalese of the Friends of Barack, mainly the law firm of whose employ the author of this piece is beholden to. When did Barack decide to run as President? Wasn't it in 2006, officially? What are the odds that Leftinistra law firms and Leftinistra Chicago lawyers of that law firm, which had/have long historical relationships with Czarbie, suddenly be wanting to "deal with" that damned pesky "natural-born clause"? Hmm?

Be prepared, ladies and gentlemen. A fully socialized and "communal" (globalized) America is on the horizon if we do not rise up to the salvation od our Freedoms so richly threatened by the globalization socialists that dwell among us. And morons say that the List of 45 is crazy. HA!

I find all of this ironic because GWB's critics criticized him for his "Globalization" outreach yet these same critics are themselves Globalists. I guess once more that Globalization is only good when the socialists do it.

Go ahead Barack. Make my day. Show your VAULT birth certificate and stop being a coward, cowering behind your Goon Squads and that forged Certificate of Live Birth fraud and scam. If you have an honest bone in your body, you would end this once and for all. Oh. Wait.

Hillary Clinton, Chris Matthews and MSM Perpetuate the Lies

Update 9:20 a.m.: Calabrese is posting this a.m. on Zeifman's site: He clarifies Zeifman claims that Hillary removed impeachment documents concerning Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas from a place accessible to the public to her own office, or a House Judiciary committee office, where they were no longer public.

FLASHBACK: Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger in the Clinton administration. Berger stole, and secreted, papers from the National Archives and Records involving terror threats against the U.S., presumably to protect the reputation of Bill Clinton.

FLASHFORWARD: Berger is now an advisor on Hillary Clinton's 2008 Election campaign staff.

Keep in mind, all this happened in the environment of the United States of Representatives.

The crux of Zeifman's writings and interviews seems to be that a precedent had been set with impeachment resolutions for Supreme Court Justice Douglas. Douglas was allowed counsel. Hillary was instructed to change no procedures by her supervisor, Zeifert as well as House leaders. Instead, she hid what had gone on before, drafted new procedures and denied that she had made any changes - attempting to keep Nixon from attaining legal counsel.

Calabrese quotes Zeifman as saying that her legal brief(s) was so "fraudlent" that he she could have been disbarred if the impeachment had gone forward and Nixon had not resigned.

Here's the history:
On March 31, 2008 (not April Fool's Day) Dan Calabrese at North Star Writers Group posted a column about 27 year old Hillary Clinton - about her work on the Watergate investigation and her unethical practices: attempts to deny President Nixon counsel, attempts to protect secrets of the Kennedy administration, actually removing certain impeachment documents from public view against the direct order of her superior (remember her good friend Sandy Berger who stole documents on behalf of the Clintons?), among others, and her eventual firing by her Supervisor, Jerry Zeifman, General Counsel and Chief of Staff of the U. S. House Judiciary Committee.

The accusations were, and are, strong and direct from Zeifman. Why haven't we heard of this flagrant and illegal behavior before? I think there are two answers: (1) We are simply numbed to her abuses - they've all run together - Watergate, Travelgate, and... (2) We haven't been reading or listening.

Zeifman has been telling the world about Hillary for some time now.

1995 - Zeifman's book is published: Without Honor: Crimes of Camelot and the Impeachment of President Nixon. Note here that, according to Amazon.com, the introduction to this book was written by John Dean!Here are portions of some reviews of Zeifman's book, taken from Zeifman's webpage:

Publishers Weekly: The House Judiciary Committee's recommendation in 1974 that Nixon be impeached was nearly thwarted by a sham congressional inquiry, according to this blistering expose....Finally, Zeifman maintains that Doar aide Hillary Rodham (now the First Lady) helped Doar gain control over the investigation through unethical tricks and faulty legal opinions

Edward Mortimer (Financial Times) The story is utterly fascinating and the
extraordinary quotes from his diary taped at the time surely make it a primary source
of considerable importance.

Henry Hyde (Chairman, House Judiciary Committee) After I started Jerry Zeifman’s extraordinarily insightful book I could not put it down -- and finished it in one sitting.

Also from Zeifman's website he recalls an incident that happened as he was promoting the book. Zeifman's literary agent arranged for John Dean and Jerry Zeifman to meet privately with Hardball's Chris Matthews (MSNB). Zeifman says that Matthews treated him "discourteously by ignoring Zeifman and talking only with John Dean. Zeifman finally did, however, get a word or two in:

I reminded him [Matthews] that I had worked with his former boss Tip O'Neill to oppose Ted Kennedy's efforts to keep Nixon in office and quoted the former Speaker as follows:"the Kennedys are not real Democrats like you and me. They've got their own Camelot Party. I was born a Democrat before I was baptized a catholic." Matthews reply was, "What did he mean by that?"

Still in 1995: Zeifman says the only television interview he was granted in Washington, D. C. about his book was by Reed Irvine for Accuracy in Media. Zeifman indicates that all the mainstream media doors were closed to him (my words, not his). He also states on his website, dated January 29, 2008, that he regrets not speaking out sooner and "urging readers to boycott him [Matthews] and MSNBC."

This book is available as a download for $3.00 for Zeifman's website.

October 29, 1996 - it appears that Zeifman has a piece or is interviewed in the Wall Street Journal. While this piece is not about Hillary, it is about the time she was getting all that "experience" she's always telling us about. Titled Cancer on the Presidency - Speaking of today's possible First Spouse (Bill Clinton), Zeifman laments the corruption in the Clinton administration and summarizes:

The misdeeds of the Clinton administration have fallen into a pattern of
deceit and corruption that now clearly justifies denying Mr. Clinton a
second term in office. To date more than 30 high administration officials
have been investigated, fired or forced to resign, and the White House
has illegally obtained more than 900 confidential FBI files. Four
independent counsels have been appointed, three to investigate cabinet
members and one to investigate the president himself.

The White House suppressed documents under subpoena. The
Department of Justice, the FBI and the Treasury Department have been
politicized and misused to prosecute or investigate innocent staffers of
the White House Travel Office. The president's Health Care Task Force
operated secretly in gross violation of federal disclosure laws, misled
the federal courts and ignored conflict of interest laws.

2006 - Another Zeifman book is published: Hillary's Pursuit of Power
I found one review on Amazon. Zeifman describes the book much as the above Without Honor.

September 24, 2006 - Newsmax Headline: Democrat Insider: Hillary Unfit for President

Reprinted in the same Newmax piece:
The New York Post, August 1999 - a letter from Zeifman:

And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons�

Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by her authorized biographer as establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment. A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed.

I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.

February 5, 2008 - Accuracy in Media MSNBC's Chris Matthews Still Abusing His Guests

Then there's this on Free Republic, posted by "doug from upland" The Real Hillary. I cannot vouch for Doug's "12 Episodes," of course, but they are familiar reminders. NOW will be a great time for some blogging sleuths to vet these stories.

There is a long list of bloggers that picked up on the Accuracy in Media reports in February and several expressed doubts that Zeifman's info would peak interest. Let's make it happen NOW.

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Rosemary's Thoughts - Winter Soldiers II final(?) update Excerpt: Jonn over at This Ain't Hell has some excellent links to articles covering this sham of an embarrassment. Rurik, unbeknownst to most, was able to mix in with the crowd and get some rather interesting tidbits about this gathering ...


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