Where Was the Messiah Born? Kenya? Hawaii? It Doesn't Matter, Let's Just Get On With the Coronation.

"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."

--U. S. Constitution, Article II, Section I

The issue of where Obama was actually born has been dropped down the memory hole of the mainstream media. They don't care. They don't want to care. They adamantly refuse to make an issue of it.  Not like they did when they brought up the subject of John McCain's being born in the Panama Canal Zone when his father was an admiral in the Navy.  They quickly dropped that subject when, (a), McCain provided the necessary documentation to prove his eligibility, and, (b), they realized how vulnerable Obama was to this same scrutiny, and were only too happy when he threw them a bone by posting an image of a birth certificate on the Internet!

This matter of "natural born citizenship" may seem like an anachronistic technicality to some people. But it serves as a revealing microcosm of how condescendingly the Left views the Constitution.

Here is a basic summary of what the Left thinks of the Constitution. On matters they would like to change (and have a reasonable likelihood of doing so), it is a "living, breathing, organic, changing" document. On matters they disagree with--either which they deem trivial and inconsequential, or for which there isn't enough popular support or "political will" for amendment--it is a dead letter. It is defective. It is deeply flawed. "Let's pretend it doesn't say that." Times have changed. We must update it.  Or replace it with something better: a democratic vote of the People (or an autocratic, dictatorial order from the Messiah).

This is the stated position of Barack Obama. Change everything he can get his hands on. The Constitution. The Supreme Court. The political system. The legal system. Religious institutions. Cultural institutions. All must be bent to the will of the Almighty Sovereign State, of which Barack will be in charge. This was Marx's substitute for submission to an omnipotent God. Barack and his most ardent supporters, like Marx's, don't care a whit what the bourgeois Constitution says. They just want their Deliverer of the Working Man from the Wrath of Capitalism to be installed into his Rightful Position. The election is merely a formality. A ceremony to ratify what has already been decided by the People via the polls. And the polls, say they, have spoken. Der Fuhrer must now be inaugurated. And he must have the absolute, uncontested power he needs to achieve the "change" that he and his followers/fellow-travellers have been clamoring for.  Change that must be implemented at all costs--regardless of what the Constitution says--by whatever means necessary, fair or foul, legal or illegal, moral or immoral. The end justifies the means.  There is too much at stake. Too much to lose (and so much to gain!).

So the stonewalling and silence continues. The complicity by the leftist media continues. The Obama juggernaut of lies and deceit continues. And the American political charade of 2008 moves inexorably forward, towards its pernicious conclusion.