With Donald Trump leading the way, the group of extremists questioning President Obama's citizenship have managed to insert themselves into Mitt Romney's campaign. Now, the birthers are beginning to question Romney's bona fides, according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. "The same birthers are now saying: 'Where is Mitt Romney's birth certificate? He never released his,'" said Milbank. "They're saying, 'maybe his middle name isn't Mitt, it's Milton."
Indeed, in April 2011, a Boston Globe writer suggested that Romney's middle name comes from his cousin Milton. "A Boston Globe timeline on Mormonism and the Romney family, which was produced as part of a major series during his last presidential run, states that in 1947, 'Willard Milton ‘Mitt’ Romney is born on March 12 in Detroit,'" the writer pointed out.
It wasn't the first time Romney's name has been an issue. In November 2007, Time magazine wrote: “Raise your hand if you knew that Mitt Romney’s given name was actually Willard Milton. Anyone?" A website called http://willardmiltonromney.com/ has now appeared, hoping to solve the puzzle of the Republican presidential candidate's real name. Said Milbank: "There's all kinds of craziness out there from the birther movement, and when you start palling around with these guys, so to speak, you don't know where it's going to end up."
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“Governor Romney has said repeatedly that he believes President Obama was born in the United States,” said spokeswoman Andrea Saul.
Saul; that is not the issue. The issue is the same one facing Mitt Romney, your boss: How can either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney be Article ll 'natural born' Citizens when neither of their father's were US citizens at the time they were born?
The further issue is the definition of a 'natural born' Citzen in Article ll has already been defind. It was defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence:
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
By natural law, an Article ll 'natual born' Citizen is a person born under the cloak of allegiance of the father, nothing more.
Is Mitt Romney going to stand by and allow the US Constitution to be ursuped simply because he doesn't think it's an issue for him, or is it because he can't take up the issue without implicating himself?
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davidfarrar
Oh No. Romney submitted his "Certificate of Live Birth". That is proof he was born in Mexico, is not a US citizen and not qualified to be President.
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Mitt's birth certificate identifies George Romney as his father. If we apply the Natural Law of Inheritance, as the Constitution intended; Mitt Romney would not be an Article ll 'natural' born US Citizen, but a 'natural' born Mexican national.
our Founding fathers ordained on one side; or the plenary hand of government on the other: be it the courts, Congress, or any other plenary appointed authority?
One thing is known for certain: if we allow Congress to create the ruling class, instead of the Constitution, they will do so to their own advantage and we will soon lose yet another one of our cherished, self-evident, unalienable truths: that 'all men are created equal.'
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davidfarrar