Cao’s bullshit gets flushed

It should come as no surprise to regular readers of this blog that there is little in this world that brings me as much joy as exposing wingnut bullshit for what it is. Happily, there’s no shortage of such offal — and Cao the Lizard Bitch is a prolific producer of excrement.

Have a look at the latest spew from this purveyor of dreck:
 

The lizard bitch expands on this fantasy at its own blog. It claims that Obama is not a US citizen by dint of his father having been a non-citizen and his mother (allegedly) not having been a citizen long enough.

It’s clear from a reading of the relevant statutes that the rules being referred to by the lizard bitch and its kin apply solely to persons born outside the US. We are told by the lizard bitch that “none of that matters”. The facts never do matter to that sort of imbecile.

John Crewdson in the Baltimore Sun sums up the reality nicely:

The Swamp: Is Barack Obama a US citizen? Yes.

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Now pay strict attention, because I’m only going to explain this once: Is Barack Obama a natural-born citizen of the United States and therefore eligible to become president? The answer is yes, according to Ron Gotcher, a noted California immigration lawyer and The Swamp’s resident expert on presidential eligibility.

“The poster’s confusion,” Gotcher writes, “is over the concepts of jus sanguinis and jus soli.” Under jus sanguinis, a person’s citizenship is transmitted “by the blood” – by inheritance from his or her parents or grandparents. In the United States, we recognize citizenship through parentage in a number of cases.

But it is not necessary to look to the statutes that deal with citizenship through jus sanguinis, since Senator Obama’s citizenship derives from jus soli – citizenship through place of birth.

According to Gotcher, “The Fourteenth Amendment commands that ”[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States , and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”

“This was clarified by the Civil Rights Act of April 9, 1866, which provided that ‘All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power are declared to be citizens of the United States.’”

“Senator Obama was born in the State of Hawaii two years after it became a state on Aug.21, 1959 As such, he acquired United States citizenship automatically at birth. While it is not necessary to go into all of the other legal errors contained in the posting (and there are many), the simple fact is that, with rare exceptions (children of diplomats), everyone born in the United States is a citizen of the United States at birth.”

You’ll notice that, as the comments on Cao’s blog continue, the lizard bitch eventually drops any mention of the rules that don’t apply to Obama in any case. It switches to an argument that because Obama (allegedly) became a Kenyan citizen at the age of two, and because Kenya does not recognize dual citizenship, then magically “Kenya’s rules apply” and Obama is not a citizen. Note that US law provides that the US citizenship of a natural-born citizen can be lost only under very specific conditions, most of which require an adult citizen to actively renounce that citizenship. Note also that US law provides that citizenship is lost solely due to the fulfillment of the conditions set out in US law.

But in Cao’s little imaginary world, “Kenya’s rules apply”. This is an amazing admission from the same lizard bitch who railed against that very concept not long ago:

Why should we, as the world’s only superpower and as the leader of the free world, bow to adopting foreign legal precedents to interpret — or reinterpret — our law? Legal precendents have enough unforeseen results, and we have enough trouble with our courts interpreting our own Constitution. Why go seeking fresh legal problems abroad?

Cao was adamant, insisting that US law must reign supreme in the United States. Well, until a black man born in the United States ran for the office of President. Then, suddenly, Cao decided that another country’s rules must apply — because she needs them to. So much for the principled view that US law is paramount.

Once again, we see that the gibbering wingnuts like Cao are willing to twist any facts, ignore any facts, and abandon any principles — just to get their own way. Thanks for the demonstration of the utter moral bankruptcy of you and your kind, Cao.

UPDATE 06/17/08 2:40 PM EDT: Cao has posted a second video. It is mostly a rehash of the points discussed above, with some additional unsupported claims. The lizard bitch seems to believe that sticking its fantasies in a video somehow magically makes them credible.