Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize
Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize
At its state convention in Des Moines last month, the Iowa GOP adopted a new party platform that includes the repeal of mandatory minimum wage laws, the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, and even clarification on the definition of manure. Out of the “387 enumerated planks and principles,” Newsweek’s Jerry Adler found the most “startling” section of the platform calls for “the reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th Amendment.”
Adopted in December 1865, the current 13th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits “slavery” and “involuntary servitude” in the United States or any place under its jurisdiction. The Iowa GOP is not trying to overturn this amendment to reinstate slavery. Instead, it wants to reintroduce the “original 13th Amendment” first offered by senator Phillip Reed of Maryland in 1810. The amendment states that “if any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor” from a “foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen” and “shall be incapable of holding any office of trust.” In receiving only 12 out of the 13 votes needed for ratification, the amendment was never adopted.
Traditional supporters of the idea are known as “Thirteenthers,” who seek to prevent those with the title of “esquire,” such as lawyers and bankers, from participating in government. But according to its spokeswoman, Danielle Plogmann, the Iowa GOP supports it as an attack on President Obama’s Nobel Prize win:
There are, of course, other implications of Thirteenthism, such as ensuring that the United States never again suffers the humiliation of having a president win the Nobel Peace Prize. That was just what the Iowa Republicans had in mind, according to Plogmann, who wrote in an e-mail that the plank “was meant to make a statement about the delegates’ opinion about Mr. Obama receiving the prize.” (Presumably they didn’t mind if, in the process, they were also making a statement about any American scientist or writer unlucky enough to win a Nobel.) Unfortunately for them, the Department of Justice looked into whether Obama needed Congressional approval to accept the Nobel under the existing emoluments clause, and based on the meaning of “foreign state” (which would not cover the Nobel Prize Committee) concluded that he did not.
Iowa is currently “the only state where this type of plank has been introduced into the GOP platform.” While chances are indeed remote that such a measure would pass, should the Iowa GOP and “Thirteenthers” successfully push their belief, “every act of federal government since 1819,” including the abolition of slavery, “would be delegitimized.” (HT: Iowa Independent)
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Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Is Black
Here’s the obvious post.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:37 pmO_o
Stay crazy, GOP.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:38 pmIowa Goopers are a pitiful, backwards bunch of dipsticks.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:39 pmIowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize
That damned uppity President.
/sarc
Birthers, and Tenthers, and Thirteenthers, OH MY!!
July 28th, 2010 at 6:41 pmthis just begs the question:
July 28th, 2010 at 6:41 pmhow can you “strip” a natural born citizen of his citizenship?
make sure to show all of your work, teabagging filth!
Just when you thought you’d heard it all… they come up with this.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:42 pmAt its state convention in Des Moines last month, the Iowa GOP adopted a new party platform that includes the ……… clarification on the definition of manure.
It’s spelled R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N …….
July 28th, 2010 at 6:43 pmOh, no, no, no, no, no….
I never heard about this, and I’m an IOWAN, for crying out loud! I thought we were better than this.
When are we going to wake up and smell the ashes?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:44 pmInstead, it wants to reintroduce the “original 13th Amendment” first offered by senator Phillip Reed of Maryland in 1810.
So being an “originalist” regarding the Constitution is no longer whacky enough. Now you have to be a “first-drafter.”
July 28th, 2010 at 6:44 pm@3:
July 28th, 2010 at 6:45 pmI could not have said it better.
“The Iowa GOP is not trying to overturn this amendment to reinstate slavery”
Yeah, right, like hell. The Republican Party is on record demanding the overturning of every law all the way back to the Great Writ of the 14th Century.
Republicans want nothing less then Saudi Arabia, which has no Constitution and everyone lives or dies at the whim of the King.
Iowa clearly wants to bring back slavery. Other Far-Right Extremists (Republicans) want to overturn Federal Government supremacy over States, undoing the results of the Civil War!
It’s the Republicans that are anti-American. Every time I hear GOP politicians or ‘teabaggers’, every word they say calls for the elimination of America one way or another. Sedition is broadcast from Fox ‘News’ and right-wing-extremist radio every minute of every day, and no one dares prosecute them for their anti-American crimes.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:45 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
How do these fu(ktards attempt to present the Nobel Committee as some sort of a “foreign power” ?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:47 pmI’m thinking of taking up a collection to buy first class, one-way tickets to Somalia for all self-professed government hating wingnuts.
Any takers?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:48 pmsawyer says:
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I guess that would disqualify Al Gore too. Too bad, he’s really making a good show of himself lately.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Least he isn’t considered a war criminal like Obama’s predecessor (correctly) is , jackwagon ……..
July 28th, 2010 at 6:48 pmOnlooker says:
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Comrade Rutherford says
How in the phuck do you come up with these names, patsy?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Why in the fu(k do you keep coming here and posting stupid , nonsensical shit , pansy ?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:49 pmold hooker,
perhaps you can answer the question:
how can you take away the citizenship of a natural born citizen?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:50 pm“Why in the fu(k do you keep coming here and posting stupid , nonsensical shit , pansy ?”
because his methwhore mother told him to vamoose while she pulls her evening train now that he’s collected the nickel fare from each “rider”
July 28th, 2010 at 6:50 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Still making advertising dollars for TP there oldhooker? Good on you! ;)
July 28th, 2010 at 6:52 pmOnlooker says:
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how can you take away the citizenship of a natural born citizen?
You’ve seen the original bc?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Why , yes I have , Ms Taitz ; where’s yours , nitwit ?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:52 pmRepublican Party of Iowa…
July 28th, 2010 at 6:56 pmNext season starts Aug 8th on the comedy channel…
The Iowa GOP is not trying to overturn this amendment to reinstate slavery.
Really from the “original 13th Amendment”
above:
“We therefore demand that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government return to govern within their constraints clearly defined by the Constitution given to us by the founders in 1787 and further refined by the Bill of Rights in 1789.”
Sounds like not do they was to get rid of the 13 amendment, but the Iowa GnOP wants to do away with all constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:57 pmrealpatriot says:
Republican Party of Iowa…
July 28th, 2010 at 6:59 pmNext season starts Aug 8th on the Comedy Channel II a.k.a Fox “News” Channel…
What, oldhooker doesn’t think “page view advertisements” generate “revenue”? ROTFL!
Stupid can’t be fixed!
July 28th, 2010 at 7:00 pmIf you wanted to find bozo there oldhooker, you should have bought a mirror! ;)
July 28th, 2010 at 7:01 pmold hooker is a birther.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:02 pmthat explains a lot
and all along i thought he was just retarded.
Thanks for the revenue oldhoooker!
Please, post, read, post, every time you do the coins click into the jar for the group you’re trying to destroy! ;)
Whahhht? An incompetent KKKon creating their own KKKarmic backlash? Shokkker!
July 28th, 2010 at 7:02 pmOnlooker says:
July 28th, 2010 at 7:02 pm17 was a stinker!
28. har5125 says:
onlooker back to ignore more direct questions asked of you?
July 28th, 2010 at 1:26 pm Add Karma Vote Up | Subtract Karma Vote Down | (5) |
It has been 18 minutes and you have made 6 comments since I posted this so it looks like your answer is NO!
Now that was a stinger, Mr. I Avoid Your Questions!
July 28th, 2010 at 7:06 pm@38: That “88″ better not have any symbolic meaning, Onlooker.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:09 pmOkay, this idiotic plank is so broad that anyone accepting any prize, such as the Cannes D’Or for filmmaking, or any Nobel in any category, including physics, or any international music, book, etc. prize would be stripped of their citizenship. Anyone who tries to defend this kind of stupidity is first– a complete moron and second– a person who likely has zero merit worthy of being honored by the world at large.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:09 pm@17 Onlooker says:
July 28th, 2010 at 7:10 pm17 was a stinger
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Asked but never answered- Do you turn and linger to admire the turds in the bowl before you flush?
Onlooker says:
Comrade Rutherford says
How in the phuck do you come up with these names, patsy?
July 28th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
July 28th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Hail Mystical Patsy!!
July 28th, 2010 at 7:13 pmReally? This is all they have? When they’re down to the “snowball’s chance in hell” planks in the party platform, they truly don’t have a platform worth standing on.
Every time I think they’ve scraped a hole in the bottom of the barrel, they find a new layer of muck. But this is just pitiful.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:16 pmLooks like bat-shit crazy has dropped down to Iowa
July 28th, 2010 at 7:18 pmceltic cynic says:
Looks like bat-$#!* crazy has dropped down to Iowa
I guess the Iowa GOP bit the head off a dead bat like Ozzy did a long time ago in a Des Moines concert except they didn’t get the rabies shot.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:21 pmWell, hell, at least these nutjobs finally seem to be admitting President Obama is indeed a citizen. Disturbing though that it’s only through the introduction of an even more insane and extreme idea.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:22 pmhttp://guttertruth.blogspot.com/
I suppose they would also disavow Theodore Roosevelt?
July 28th, 2010 at 7:24 pmWow – Iowa just surged ahead of South Carolina in the race for the most reactionary state GOP committee. Impressive indeed, considering the competition not only from S.C., but Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana …
July 28th, 2010 at 7:26 pmHow about mandatory IQ tests-anyone under 50 gets to live in Iowa.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:27 pmBringing back slavery makes more sence. Just when you think they can’t get any crazier, they want to outlaw international honors and awards.
Someparty’s acting out because their president sucked.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:28 pmoops…’sense’
July 28th, 2010 at 7:29 pm@51:
July 28th, 2010 at 7:32 pmThere have been problems of mentally handicapped workers being exploited in Iowa, and I don’t want to see another repeat.
If you’re talking about the IQr (Intelligence Quotient – revised version) test that factors politics in, it’s still “no thanks.”
Thanks to all who voted down The Troll Who Shall Be Nameless before I got here, so I didn’t even have to catch a glimpse of someone lying so hard he’s sweating and trying so hard to make himself believe he’s scoring points that it only serves the sad purpose of underscoring how far behind in the game he actually is.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:34 pmI don’t know why anybody thinks that anything that comes out of the Iowa GOP in any crazier than the good people of Iowa constantly re-electing Steve King as their representative. That alone should indicate that they aren’t quite right.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:35 pmOne state thinks it can take away the president’s citizenship?
July 28th, 2010 at 7:35 pmA committee is a foreign state? The minimum wage is too high? Where did that white rabbit go?
Oldhooker hasn’t been the same today since she found out all of her troll meddling was generating so much revenue for TP! ROTFL! ;)
July 28th, 2010 at 7:39 pmI think the Dems should run with this as “Iowa GOP wants to repeal the 13th Amendment” without further explanation.
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Zooey (I am Patsy) says:
So being an “originalist” regarding the Constitution is no longer whacky enough. Now you have to be a “first-drafter.”
Whatever draft, version or interpretation strikes them as convenient for the moment.
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MCMetal says:
How do these fu(ktards attempt to present the Nobel Committee as some sort of a “foreign power” ?
Well, the Committee is appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, so I guess a case could be made.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:40 pmInstead, it wants to reintroduce the “original 13th Amendment” first offered by senator Phillip Reed of Maryland in 1810. The amendment states that “if any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor” from a “foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen” and “shall be incapable of holding any office of trust.”
President George W. Bush Awarded by Canadian Pro-Life Group for Abortion Fight
Strip his citizenship.
In 1993, [George H. W.] Bush was awarded an honorary knighthood (GCB) by Queen Elizabeth II. He was the third American president to receive the honor, the others being Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.[91]
Strip their citizenship.
The later even have an allegiance to the Queen of United Kingdom.
Must I go on?
July 28th, 2010 at 7:40 pmThe inbred retards have the right to vote, isn’t that a scary thing in a democracy!
What does this prove! Better fund education, force education standards, end the religious homeschooling bullsh!t, and set standards for teachers! This generation of retards is lost, lets not lose anymore!
July 28th, 2010 at 7:40 pmArt says:
I suppose they would also disavow Theodore Roosevelt?
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How hard would it be to re-chisel Teddy’s image on Rushmore to convert it to either Reagan or Dubsie?
July 28th, 2010 at 7:41 pm“The Iowa GOP adopted a new party platform that includes the repeal of mandatory minimum wage laws, the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, and even clarification on the definition of manure.”
Finally the GOP is getting something worthwhile done instead of sitting around thinking of ways to screw the Democrats. We all know the Republicans hate education and fair pay/fair working conditions but the important discussion on manure has been a hot topic for many a year now. We are all glad they can shed some light on this meaningful subject. By unanimous consent here is what they concurred.
ma•nure
July 28th, 2010 at 7:45 pmShow Spelled [muh-noo r, -nyoo r] Show IPA noun, verb, -nured, -nur•ing.
–noun
1.
excrement, esp. of animal, Republicans or other refuse used as fertilizer.
2.
Slimy, smelly goo that comes out of a conservative mouth.
3.
What normal people call an idea that might just spring from a Republican brain. (commonly referred to as a ‘pile of sh*t’.
Frugalchariot says:
Art says:
I suppose they would also disavow Theodore Roosevelt?
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How hard would it be to re-chisel Teddy’s image on Rushmore to convert it to either Reagan or Dubsie?
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Just melt the rock and you’ve a good approximation of the later RR.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:46 pmThe US has now surpassed Italy for pure silliness in politics.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:47 pmI’m in, Zooey.
but isn’t first class a little indulgent for “fiscal conservatives”?
July 28th, 2010 at 7:47 pmThe epitome of ignorance.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:48 pmmore black hate,just dam #60 proves my point.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:48 pmI(diots) O(ut) W(alking) A(round) for sure.
July 28th, 2010 at 7:49 pmWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
We’re angry because most of the politicians who have received the Nobel Prize have been democrats!!!!!
*Carter
*Gore
*Obama
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttt!!!
July 28th, 2010 at 7:50 pmThe new 13th shall be known as “How a Black Man Became President and an Entire Nation Went Insane.”
July 28th, 2010 at 7:53 pmWill it never end?
July 28th, 2010 at 8:00 pmIf they keep up with this idiocy, will the people realize how spiteful, hateful and small the GOP is?
I wonder.
I believe that the real reason is because Obama is black. Instead of being proud that our president has been awarded the Nobel Prize, they hate him for it.
They would still be throwing parties if Bush had won (as preposterous as that thought is.)
patsy….patsy…patsy….patsy….patsy……
July 28th, 2010 at 8:02 pmsoros…soros….soros…..
oldhooker is an ahole
tony and lido
wow…I wonder, is Iowa really this full of HATE?
July 28th, 2010 at 8:03 pmRe: dietrich @ 73:
Good to read you, Tony. Hope you’re OK after that blood-sugar episode the other night. That was NOT good, and the REAL TP’ers were seriously worried
July 28th, 2010 at 8:06 pmThe amendment states that “if any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor” from a “foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen” and “shall be incapable of holding any office of trust.”
You do realize that this would wipe out a huge percentage of your best and brightest, eh.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:06 pmWriters, scientists, diplomats… think of everyone that has recieved an award from a foriegn power.
God, this has to be one of the dumbest things I have heard in a long time. I thought for minute I was reading a script from a Mel Brooks Movie. I swear to god, we in America have the dumbest people in the world. Its a wonder we can screw a light bulb in without blowing ourselves up, which the rest of the world would give a big sigh of relief.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:10 pmTeddy Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama are presidential recipients of the Nobel Prize.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:11 pmAside from many notables, authors, and scientists, I wonder how many along with Martin L. King, Ralph Bunche, Toni Morrison are black?
Ooops. If Obama goes, then George W. Bush and his daddy have to go too.
The Nobel Committee is not a sovereign power. It’s more on a par the Saskatchenwan Pro-Life Association.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:17 pmSoapBox says:
wow…I wonder, is Iowa really this full of HATE?
Nah, just Republicans there. And everywhere else, for that matter.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:18 pmWell if the Iowa idiots get their way, blacks winning awards or titles won’t be an issue, because they will all be slaves again. None of these people should be allowed out in public alone, nor should they be allowed to carry anything sharp.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:18 pmOf course. That’s the idea. they don’t want any o’ them edumicated elites doin’ the deciderin’.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:18 pmIlliteracy and stupidity can’t help but hurt the teabagger and wingnut chances to win elections. They are too damned dumb to go vote.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:19 pmThinking of it, I believe most if not all Heads of State and Embassadors have “foreing titles of nobility or honor”. It’s a common way to honor them and their country.
And, if we consider the UN a “foreing” institution (after all, it is supposed to be international), well, Bolton is in serious trouble, even not being a legal representant.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:19 pmSeriously. Doesn’t the Iowa GOP have anything better to do than debate a meaningless piece of legislation on a non-state issue? Damn Republicans are dumb!
July 28th, 2010 at 8:19 pmKasinca,
I question if people this dumb should even be allowed to vote.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:20 pmMichelle Bachmann was born in Iowa… this explains a lot.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:21 pmzxbe@87,
I know, but the sad thing was with all that air in her head she blew north and landed in my state.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:24 pmSoooo…. what country will they root for during the Olympics?
July 28th, 2010 at 8:32 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Somewhat Off-Topic
Key Republican calls Kagan a ‘dangerous’ nominee
JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
From Associated Press
July 28, 2010 6:03 PM EDT
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, warned senators in unusually dire terms against voting for President Barack Obama’s choice, saying, “Be careful about it, because I’m afraid that we have a dangerous, progressive, political-type nominee.”
July 28th, 2010 at 8:34 pmrangermac says:
Soooo…. what country will they root for during the Olympics?
I definitely heard them cheer loudly when Brazil was awarded the 2016 Olympics over Chicago!
July 28th, 2010 at 8:35 pmI’m all for stripping Sir Rudolph Giuliani of his citizenship.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:39 pmCheese and Crackers, on Monday, I drove through the entire state and thought for a split second, with all the wind mills (especially along the western half) as alternative energy, Iowa was becoming a progressive state.
It appears I thought wrong.
And for Crisco’s sake, don’t even get me started on Nebraska!
But, as a consolation prize, our family’s destination of Colorado provided much needed humor and irony, what with the GOP bickering and ultimatums before the primaries.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:41 pm:-)
Crazy town…these are elected officals?
What the fcuk is wrong with these morons? Is it the water?
Oh, forgot, black…got it.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:42 pmWhatever happened to that value call “Midwestern Sensibility?
July 28th, 2010 at 8:42 pm…wait, Ron Paul is a guest speaker. Didn’t he win some foriegn awards for his writting?
July 28th, 2010 at 8:42 pmThe cheering for Brazil over the US was not Iowa.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/02/afp-olympics-cheer/
July 28th, 2010 at 8:44 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Oh, good freaking grief. These people are just effin CRAZY.
July 28th, 2010 at 8:59 pmEgad! These idiots are truly frightening in their xenophobia. Anything “foreign” must be bad in their, so-called, minds.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:09 pmDuke Ellington?
July 28th, 2010 at 9:22 pmNOOOOOOO!!!!!!
With them wanting to repeal mandatory minimum wage laws, it seems as though they also want to repeal our current 13th Amendment.
The only way you can actually support a family off a minimum wage salary is if you or your significant other has a trust fund.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:24 pmPee5Martha V. says:
Accepting the Nobel Prize is, in and of itself, proof of disloyalty …
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And how is that? Your basis?
July 28th, 2010 at 9:59 pmYes, let’s embrace the anti-science, anti-intellectual sentiment among the tea party klan and revoke the citizenship of every past, present, and future American Noble Prize winner, essentially telling all of them to go live in some other country because we can no longer trust their loyalties to the United States.
Brilliant plan, GOP.
July 28th, 2010 at 9:59 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
#104
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
July 28th, 2010 at 10:17 pmMartha V. says:
You wear your ignorant racism so well, you freaking dipstick. We should deport your worthless ass.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:21 pmNobody has ever accused the wingnuts and teabagging klan of too much education or intelligence…only racism.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:25 pmI say, these ret@rded Frightwing Rethugs are so effin’ STOOPID and delusional, you just have to assume that their mothers and fathers are actually sister and brother. Suck on, Nimrods. Suck on …
July 28th, 2010 at 10:25 pmThe new definition of “manure” is the G.O.P.
Gruesome
July 28th, 2010 at 10:33 pmOdoriferous; and
Putrid
Careful, trolls, or you’ll soon earn a Darwin Award by your own merits. Not that then you’ll regret to lose your citizenship, because, well, it’s self-inflicted and posthumous…
July 28th, 2010 at 10:46 pmIn clarifying the definition of manure, all they had to do was post a self-portrait.
Seriously, trying to enforce an amendment which wasn’t ratified ? Can I start enforcing laws which haven’t passed cloture in the Senate ?
And are we gonna deport those who have some foreign title ?
The arguments are getting dumber and dumber.
July 28th, 2010 at 11:09 pm“Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize”
lol Now, that’s an idiot.
GOP = Mental illness
July 28th, 2010 at 11:20 pmI don’t know. Obama is smart, articulate, a great orator and gets respect from every other country in the world. He has done a great job with the shit stains he inherited from Bush, but there’s just something about him that’s, well, different.
And it’s enough to make people hate him. What is it?
Martha V., sweetie, could you give a brother a clue here? Why do you hate a good man with such passion?
July 28th, 2010 at 11:28 pmFrugalchariot says:
How hard would it be to re-chisel Teddy’s image on Rushmore to convert it to either Reagan or Dubsie?
Not so fast, Frugalchariot. Looks like Ronnie Raygun received a few foreign awards/honors. His citizenship will be stripped post-humorously.
In 1989, Raygun was an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, a British first class knighthood. Raygun was also named an honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. Japan awarded him the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum in 1989.
Shrubbie also received an award/honor from a foreign country.
This would nullify his presidency. Ouch! The teabaggers aren’t gonna like that one bit.
July 28th, 2010 at 11:30 pm* Birth certificate
* Citizenship
* Secession
* Subpoenas
* Witch hunts
* Tax cuts for the wealthy
* Corporate welfare
* Deregulation
* Abortion
* Gun rights
* War with Iran
* Hate
* Racism
How nice to see the republican platform and what we would expect if by some LARGE miracle they return to power.
Vote for the party of No, vote republican and watch the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the middle class disappears and America becoming a third world nation ruled by corporations and the wealthy.
July 28th, 2010 at 11:33 pmPee5Martha V. says:
Accepting the Nobel Prize is, in and of itself, proof of disloyalty …
July 28th, 2010 at 11:36 pm————
No, I would say going AWOL or getting 5 deferments while your country is at war is proof of disloyalty.
A Nobel Prize winner taught at my Alma mater and I was lucky enough to speak to him a couple of times.
There is no way the American people will allow him or any other of our best and brightest to be deprived of their citizenship.
July 28th, 2010 at 11:42 pmLooks like the Iowa Republigrunts just admitted that President Obama is a “citizen of the United States.”
Hey, what would them tharr Teabaggerers have to say about this?
July 29th, 2010 at 12:01 amTold ya Marth was a fake ;)
July 29th, 2010 at 12:17 amOMG, I was born in Iowa….thank god my parents had the good sense to leave there soon after. First that stupid billboard and now this….I can’t believe these people are doing this….are they all mentally disturbed?
I now live in Oregon where people are sane.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:30 amI know some folks don’t wander very far from the farm or their double-wide, but has anyone pointed out to these folks that in addition to Barack Obama, using the logic of the Iowa Republican Party, the following US citizens would also have to be stripped of their US citizenship as well.
It’s a looong list with more than a few Republicans and war heroes as well as celebrities, but here goes…
Losing their US citizenship for winning a Nobel Prize (there are over 300 of them, but I’m listing some of the most well known here):
Paul Krugman, Economics, 2008
Toni Morrison, Literature, 1993
Elie Wiesel, born in Romania, Peace, 1986
Isaac Bashevis Singer, born in Poland, Literature, 1978
Milton Friedman, Economics, 1976
Henry Kissinger, born in Germany, Peace, 1973
Martin Luther King, Jr., Peace, 1964
John Steinbeck, Literature, 1962
Linus C. Pauling, Chemistry, 1954/Peace, 1962
Ernest Hemingway, Literature, 1954
George C. Marshall, Peace, 1953
William Faulkner, Literature, 1949
T. S. Eliot, Literature, 1948
American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers), Peace, 1947
Pearl S. Buck, Literature, 1938
Eugene O’Neill, Literature, 1936
Sinclair Lewis, Literature, 1930
Charles G. Dawes, Peace, 1925 (GOP VP w/ Coolidge)
Albert Einstein, Physics, 1921 (US citizen from 1940)
Woodrow Wilson, Peace, 1919
Elihu Root, Peace, 1912 (GOP Senator and Sec of State and Sec of War w/ McKinley and T Roosevelt)
Theodore Roosevelt, Peace, 1906
Losing their US citizenship for being knighted by the Queen of Britain:
General Wesley Clark (fmr NATO Commander)
Bill Gates
Ronald Reagan
George Herbert Walker Bush
Rudolph Giuliani
Bernard Kerik
Bob Hope
Jerry Lewis
Caspar Weinberger
John Paul Getty II
Charlton Heston
Ricardo Montalban and his wife
Muhammed Ali
Alan Greenspan
Steven Spielberg
Billy Graham
Anthony Hopkins (US citizen from 2000)
Alfred Hitchcock (US citizen from 1956)
J. Edgar Hoover
Liam Neeson (US citizen from 2009)
Sidney Poitier
Lynn Redgrave
Elizabeth Taylor
George J. Mitchell (US Senator, Diplomat)
Omar Bradley (WWII General)
James Doolittle (WWII General, Aviation Pioneer)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tommy Franks (2003 Iraq War General)
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz (WWII Admiral)
George Patton
John Pershing (WWI General)
Colin Powell
Norman Schwarzkopf (1991 Iraq War General)
Plus several US servicemen awarded the Victoria Cross during WWI and WWII.
Losing their US citizenship for receiving the Croix de Guerre from France:
Eddie Rickenbacker (WWI Ace, Aviation Pioneer)
Alvin York (WWI Hero)
Josephine Baker (Actress, also worked for French Resistance during WWII)
Curtis LeMay (WWII General, Head of Berlin Airlift, VP Candidate w/ George Wallace)
Audie Murphy (WWII Hero, most decorated soldier in WWII)
George Patton (WWII General)
James Stewart (Actor, also WWII ace)
Plus! Every US soldier who served with the following military units during WWII, because they were all awarded the Croix as a unit:
5th Marine Regiment
6th Marine Regiment
US Army 2nd Infantry Division
US Army 3rd Infantry Division
US Army Air Corps 3rd Squadron
US Army 4th Cavalry Regiment
1st Battalion of the US Army 28th Infantry Regiment
US Army National Guard 45th Infantry Brigade (Oklahoma)
Losing their US citizenship for receiving Légion d’Honneur from France:
Orson Welles
Julia Child
Walt Disney
The Academies of West Point (Military) and Annapolis (Naval)
Jerry Lewis
David Petraeus (2003 Iraq War General)
Miles Davis (Jazz Musician)
So to review… if they plan to strip Barack Obama of his US citizenship using the original 13th Amendment, they’ll also have to strip David Petraeus and Tommy Franks of theirs – along with many other heroes of the right, including Milton Friedman and George Patton.
They really should find a more surgical way to practice their racism than this.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:21 amIf the GOP ever controls our federal government, I will fight it with all my power. Government by the insane MUST be overthrown.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:31 amBravo NHouston.
I considered posting a list like that a concluded it would be to long.
You’ve managed to do a good job sumerzing why the idiot in Iowa needs to STFU.
July 29th, 2010 at 1:34 amNHouston says:
Losing their US citizenship for winning a Nobel Prize (there are over 300 of them, but I’m listing some of the most well known here):
Paul Krugman, Economics, 2008
All the wingnuts stopped reading after that. Now they’re all for stripping citizenship from all Nobel winners, and whatever other international awards exist, they don’t care.
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glogrrl says:
I now live in Oregon where people are sane.
Indeed we are.
July 29th, 2010 at 3:10 amRe: glogrrrl @ 123:
Along with Gummitch, ElBruce, pilotshark, and a few others, including my humble self.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:42 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Go for it Iowa. The federal government will also be sending you a bill for ever penny your useless state has ever begged for.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:06 amShould we tell these people that this is a prize
July 29th, 2010 at 7:35 amfrom a financial trust established by a scientist
and munitions maker or go on letting them believe
their stupid story?
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences isn’t nobility.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:38 amWhat idiots.
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Oh, Paleeeezzzzzeeeee!
This is what Iowa is paying their politicians for???
I have never in my 55 years seen such a childish display of sour grapes from adults.
Enough!!!!!
July 29th, 2010 at 8:00 amThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Umm, IIRC (and I do), a multitude of GOP numbnuts nominated Bush for the NPP.
July 29th, 2010 at 8:56 amMugsy
DONT believe them. That is not how it works. People with pens and paper do NOT get to nominate anyone for the Nobel Prize. A select group of organizations, academies and such are APPROACHED by the Nobel comittee to make nominations. Not just anyone with delusions of ganduer
July 29th, 2010 at 9:48 amAnother great example of the GOP revealing their campaign platform. No wonder some Repubs think they should keep it a secret.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:16 amI’m sort of surprised to find that the Iowa Republican Party has elevated the Nobel Committee to the state of “foreign power”. That is, unless it was simply an example to illustrate their definition of manure. It certainly comports well with my definition of manure.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:34 amSome time ago, I posted an article on OpEdNews regarding the fabled original thirteenth amendment, which libertarian wet dreams have represented as having been ratified on the strength of a printing order that included such an amendment in the Constitution. You can find the article here, http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Thirteenth-Amendment-Wor-by-John-Sanchez-Jr–080728-981.html, along with the libertarian fury that it engendered in the comments following.
We further hereby pass a resolution to throw the rattle out of the pram.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:28 amSpeaking of slavery and involuntary servitude…why aren’t we talking about an issue which is a real threat.
So here’s a real topic of concern for real liberals. How about H.R. 5471 which is a variation of Hitler’s Brown Shirt program and would be applauded by any Fascist. They really think we’re stupid. Get a moron, false-liberal (Charles Rangel) to introduce the bill and then all the liberals will think it is OKEY DOKEY, because a Dem sponsored it.
This is a real topic of discussion. Articles like this are here to distract liberals from the real fight. HR 5471 is a real fight. Urge your local representatives to shoot down this heinous piece of legislative treachery.
July 29th, 2010 at 11:57 amFor Trueliberty at #141:
It is instructive to note that you have no explanation of HR 5471 except to describe it as a “variation of Hitler’s Brown Shirt Program.”
What the bill actually would do is to extend until January of 2011 the federal medical assistance percentage for Medicaid under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (stimulus bill).
Please explain one of two things to us.
1. How is it that you see this as a “variation of Hitlers Brown Shirt Program”, which, incidentally was not legislated, but simply organized under the Nazi Party? Of course, this would be lost on a skeevy teatard propagandist.
2. Why do you so clearly believe that liberals would jump to an activist role against this legislation on the word of a skeevy teatard propagandist?
Oh, hell, make it one of three things,
3. What do they pay teatard propagandists these days, and how is it that, if you find it lucrative enough to go for it, it is so much more than your dumb ass deserves? Is it enough for us liberals to confiscate in support of HR 5471? After all, you didn’t do anything worthwhile to earn it.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:22 pmOH, WOW !
This means we have to nullify the Reagan tax changes !
He wasn’t a citizen (as he received a foreign title) and therefore couldn’t be president. Therefore couldn’t have signed anything into law.
July 29th, 2010 at 12:47 pmI’m going to pretend that I never, ever read this. Because if I don’t, my brain will melt and drain out through my ears.
Just when you think the wingnuts can’t possibly get any loonier, they surprise you again with something like this.
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I had some free time so I read the whole platform. It’s about what you should expect from the GOP these days. Their basic stump is:
“We hate (more or less in descending order) Obama (implicitly stated); non-(natural-born)heterosexuals (that means you too transgender people); Muslims; illegal immigrants; people on welfare; people on food stamps; people who can’t provide for themselves; sick people (but we can’t remove their feeding tubes or turn off their life support machines because god has a plan for them even though we don’t have a plan to pay for their long-term care beyond prayer because we vehemently oppose nationalized health care); people who can’t afford good health insurance for them or their families but want it; non-christians (esp. atheists and, of course, Muslims as stated above); people who believe in evolution and global warming; and anyone that wants to limit carbon emissions, likes the federal reserve, sees no point in returning to a gold- and silver-standard economy, doesn’t carry a gun, wants to hand out condoms, and/or say that kids should eat healthy food at school. We are in favor of (more or less in order of importance) outlawing all abortions; carrying guns (concealed or open…your choice) without the inconvenience of those pesky permits; establishing a loose-knit group of heavily armed citizens (let’s call them a militia) who lack a definable authority or mission; returning the US Constitution to it’s original form as intended by the omnipotent Founding Fathers (praise be their names) and then not messing with it except for passing an amendment banning two people of the same gender or any transgender people from getting married and stripping Obama of his US citizenship (which we still don’t believe he has…but, you know, just in case); making sure that health care is always considered a privilege for US citizens only and not a right (to be clear we are perfectly happy to let the small child of illegal immigrants die in the parking lot of a hospital from some curable disease because we don’t want to sacrifice the equivalent cost of a few gallons of gasoline in our SUVs to pay for it); teaching Creationism in school (we’re even willing to call it Intelligent Design, Creation Science or Creationism…we don’t care so long as we teach kids that god made everything in 6 days ’round about 6000 years ago…what more do you need to know?!); teaching US history as we believe it happened not how those annoying academics with all their fancy “learning” and “knowledge” on the subject say that it really happened; impeaching any judge that we think is practicing judicial activism (unless of course they support our point of view); requiring terminally-ill patients to be kept alive by artificial means (because, as we said, god has a plan for them) but giving the death penalty to every criminal scumbag who has it coming (because somewhere in the bible it says so and because it deters crime — despite the fact that there is no real evidence to support such a claim — and if innocent people die in the process you ask — we say you can’t make an omelet without cracking a few eggs, haha, plus I’m sure they did something to deserve it anyway); not teaching kids about sex beyond the fact that abstinence is the only way (and no you may not have a condom young lady!); racial profiling Muslims because we know they are all terrorists at heart just waiting for the right moment to strike even though we can’t prove it…yet (just give those Bush wiretaps a little more time); and, most importantly, passing any and every law which benefits us, our self-righteous view of the world, and what we feel like doing at the time without out any bothersome debate on potential repercussions, collateral effects, and unintended consequences while simultaneously reducing the size of and reach of the government. Oh, and just to ensure that in 10 years nothing new will ever again get done in congress, we want all laws to have a 10 year lifespan whereupon they must be debated and passed again if they are not to expire. After all, the US is inherently and manifestly better than the rest of the rest of the world (whose ideas about things like the role of government, freedom, human rights, caring for the global environment, justice, etc. are just plain stupid) because god is on our side (which is why we should void all international treaties and dissolve the UN), and because there are boundless opportunities for advancement — so long as you live in America as we believe exists. (Please refrain from bothering us with any details about how your life and beliefs, or the lives and beliefs of others, differ from ours. And definitely do not give us that nonsense about how those differences represent equally-valid view points or lifestyle choices. We believe what we believe and don’t give a rat’s behind about anything or anyone else. Period.) God bless Sarah Palin and ‘Merica”
If you were confused by all that I just want to say, me too.
(I would like to apologize to all of my English and writing teachers by saying that my sentences are usually not that run-on and I know that I overuse hyphens.)
July 31st, 2010 at 4:37 pm