Every now and again someone slips through the electronic field I have set up around my Facebook page that is supposed to keep Birthers, lunatics, Yankees fans, and episcopalians out. It’s like a bug zapper for the mentally deranged. But, the damn thing keeps breaking and I still end up with batshit crazy ramblings and links to shoddily researched crap. Case in point, the link I keep getting to this horseshit:<\/p>\n
CONGRESS KNEW OBAMA WAS INELIGIBLE\u2026SIX YEARS BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED! <\/a><\/p>\n Amazing foresight on Congress, no? I mean, shit, 6 years before he was elected, he was a friggin nobody. Let’s look at this rock solid proof.<\/p>\n Congressional records show that on eight separate occasions over six years, between 2003 and 2008, legislators attempted to eliminate or change the definition of the \u201cNatural Born\u201d eligibility clause of Article 2 of the Constitution in order to remove restrictions and, thereby, create legal justifications supporting Obama\u2019s unlawful candidacy for President.<\/p>\n We now know what members of congress knew about Obama\u2019s ineligibility, and when they knew it.<\/p>\n In a recently produced documentary, Carl Gallups, a senior pastor at Hickory Hammock Baptist Church for more than two decades with a ten year professional background in law enforcement, presents documented evidence showing that members of congress submitted repetitive, coordinated proposals to alter the ‘natural-born’ eligibility clause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Um, who?\u00a0 This is where I would forward you to his wikipedia page to document all the shit that this guy has done, but unlike say “Star Wars Kid” dude doesn’t even have one.\u00a0 But, nonetheless, let’s push on.<\/p>\n The moron writing here lists 8 seperate attempts to amend the Constitution in this regard.\u00a0 I won’t go through all of them, but some are interesting.<\/p>\n 1. On June 11, 2003, Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Arkansas, introduced House Joint Resolution 59 (HJR 59) which attempted to Constitutionally change the understood historical definition of a \u2018natural-born\u2019 eligibility for the U.S. Presidency in order to “permit persons who are not natural born citizens of the United States, but who have been citizens of the United States for at least 35 years, to be eligible to hold the offices of president and vice president.\u201d The resolution did not make it to a senate vote at that time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m going to go out on a limb, and suggest that it didn’t make it to the Senate largely because it was introduced in the House, and not the Senate.\u00a0 Also, it had 6 cosponsors, never had a hearing, and was DOA.\u00a0 But those Dems were incredibly crafty, since they managed to get half of their cosponsors to be GOP, including Rep Issa (R-CA) who even now is carrying on with his Obama perfidy by\u00a0masquarading\u00a0as a conservative by doing things like hounding the shit out of Eric Holder.\u00a0 Sneaky man!\u00a0 Look out, The Daily Pen is on to you!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4. Then, just two months later, on Sept. 15, 2004, House Representative Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, submitted HJR 104, which audaciously attempted “to make eligible for the office of president a person who is not a natural born citizen of the United States but has been a United States citizen for at least 20 years.” Rohrabacher\u2019s fallow resolution attempted to completely ignore the Constitution\u2019s requirement that a president had to be a natural born citizen. The resolution was rejected on its face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Another crafty Republican who managed to sneak one by us.\u00a0 Mind you, it had zero cosponsors, went nowhere fast, but his “fallow resolution” was meant for better crops later of something.\u00a0 Dude is so undercover that he had this to say just last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n