The Legitimacy of the Obama Presidency

Over the last eight years or so, there has been a lot of chatter from the right side of the isle about the place of Obama's birth. For some reason my conservative colleagues seem to think that the fact that our first black president was born in Kenna disqualified him from becoming president. There were many reasons this socialist should not have been elected president of the United States, but this is not one of them. In this respect, the fact that Obama's communist mother was born in the United states has never been questioned; thus, like it or not, Obama is an American citizen, irrespective of where he was born. As you will recall, John McCain was born in Panama of an American mother and no one ever questioned his qualifications to run for the presidency. On hind sight maybe they should have! However, we are now facing an entirely different kettle of fish and I would argue that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) abuse of power prior to the 2012 election so contaminated the electoral process that the results of the election were meaningless! It is becoming increasingly clear with each passing day that Obama's administration used the immense powers of the IRS to hamper legitimate efforts of Tea Party members, the Southern Christian Association and a host of other conservative groups to unseat Obama in the last election. Whether Obama knew about these shenanigans is beside the point, his supporters knew and that's all that matters! Why is the use of the IRS's attempts to thwart voices on the right such an egregious abuse of power? As you will recall, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political independent expenditures and electioneering communications by corporations, associations or labor unions. In other words, the court equated the use of money to promote a political point of view with the sacred right of free speech, not to be screwed around with, even by democrats. The liberal democratic minions in the IRS successfully circumvented the clear cut intent of the Supreme Court in their ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, not by a direct attempt to suppress the political advertisements of their opponents, but by making it difficult or impossible for conservative groups to obtain tax free status for their organizations. Obviously, if an organization has to pay taxes of the money they raise for their political enterprises they will have less to spend on their attempts to influence the votes of those participating in the election. We will never how much difference the dirty tricks of the demorats imbedded in the IRS had on the last election. However, that is not the point; rather, the issue is whether or not every candidate running in the election, including governor Romney, got a fair shot at the prize or were conservative candidates in the 2012 election playing with a deck of cards that was stacked against them from the get-go. The answer is obvious! The 2012 election was rigged against Romney and the conservatives because their attempts to organize against Obama and other democratic candidates were thwarted, in part, by the tyrants in the IRS. As such, the results of the election should be declared null and void! There is no other reasonable solution to the problem. We must throw out the results of the flawed 2012 election and start all over again. By the way, the demorats in the IRS, and White House, responsible for this travesty of justice should spend the remainder of their days in federal prison, without, by the way, conjugal visits!