I looked up the article on the paper’s website:

(http://ddd-hph.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/newshph?a=d&cl=search&d=HPH20010919.2.25&srpos=275&e=——-20–261-byDA—obama-all)

What Obama said, per the article, is there was a lack of empathy on the part of the terrorists towards Americans; he doesn’t say Americans need to demonstrate or offer empathy towards them. This was so outlandish a thought I tracked down the article to see if it was the case — I wouldn’t have been flabbergasted at this point, but I would have been surprised. Turns out, it was not what he said. The “absence of empathy” is “on the part of the attackers.” (The rest is his usual dissemination of blame to the point of evaporation, the rhetorical equivalent of a “Present” vote.)

We can’t afford to put words in the mouths of the bad guys: the Media would gleefully jump at the chance to point out such inaccuracies. I get no pleasure out of pointing this out, but it is doubly important our side’s message always be grounded in fact. If we lose that, we are no better than the Progressives.

I sure am liking the way he is sticking it to Barack. And I like what he’s been doing to get Louisiana back on its feet from the effects of years of Democrat rule.

I sure am liking the way he is sticking it to Barack. And I like what he’s been doing to get Louisiana back on its feet from the effects of years of Democrat rule.

Beyond domestic policy. It will be necessary when he debates Joe Biden in 2012. He’s not running for president in 2012, period.

the classical “root causes” tripe. Except this was about the masss murder of fellow Americans, not shoplifting.
OK, cancel the fellow Americans part. If possible, a new low level of disgust for this human filth in our White House. And an extension of same to the other leftist filth that steadfastly support this dirty thing.

Considering that Palin is untenable as a POTUS, Romney is a weasel and Huck is unfocussed, Jindal may well be our best bet come 2012 (even if he does speak like Mickey Mouse)

Considering that Palin is untenable as a POTUS, Romney is a weasel and Huck is unfocussed, Jindal may well be our best bet come 2012 (even if he does speak like Mickey Mouse)
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We drift off to a world of tangled symantics rather than, ourselves, focus. In my decades, excepting Reagan, we have never made the good choice. I do not necessarily mean MY choice, I did support Kasich some years past and observed he was not ready. NOW it is Sarah or be damned. Every slime ball like D’Amato that says—who cares, she’s smarter than him. OR Mr affirmative Action, your coward in chief

Jindal is not eligible to be POTUS. The Constitution requires that he be a “natural born citizen”, which the founders wrote meant born of TWO US CITIZEN parents. Jindal is “native birth”, born on the soil but parents were not citizens. The framers of the Constitution wanted to make sure that the parents did not pass allegiance to a foreign country to a child who would become commander-in-chief of US military. When the parents are citizens of a foreign country, the child is born a citizen of that country. The founders had just fought a war for freedom from Britain and intended to prevent such allegiance in our POTUS.

if they don’t even understand the constitution. It is quite clear in the Constitution that Jindal is eligible to be President. Actually more so than Obama. That really isn’t what we are here to discuss.

For some reason Obama and people in general believe that terrorist are doing this because of poverty. Noting could be further from the truth. They are doing this because they believe our wealth is evil and our way of life is evil. You could give them all the money you want and it will not curb their resolve to destroy western civilization. That is the way these people are raised and what they believe in. People in this country always think that other cultures want what we want and that is just not so. Islam’s goal is to eventually rule the world. If you are not from Islam you should be dead. That is the thought process. Conversion out of the Islamic faith or death is the only solution to this terrorist problem.

Others need to do their research, as I have. The 14th amendment only defines a “citizen”, not a “natural born citizen”, which is specifically required for a POTUS and no other person.
The writers of the Constitution followed Vattel’s meaning as noted below.

In those few cases in which the Supreme Court has declared an individual to be a “natural born citizen”, the individual was always U.S.-born to U.S.-citizen parents. For example, in Perkins v. Elg (1939), Miss Elg was declared to be a natural born citizen. She was born in the United States and, when she was born, both of her parents were naturalized U.S. citizens.

In 1797, the English translation of Emmerich de Vattel’s, Law of Nations was revised to include the term “natural born citizen”. The revised English translation helps to clarify the meaning of “natural born citizen”, as English-speaking people generally understood it towards the end of the 18th Century: “The natives, or natural born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. .. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for, if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country.” (Vattel, Law of Nations, Book 1, Chapter 19)

In 1874, in the Minor v. Happersett case, the Supreme Court affirmed the definition of natural born citizen which had appeared in the 1797 English translation of Vattel’s Law of Nations:
…it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. (Minor v. Happersett, 1874)