THIS IS FUNNY.
First, Obama wasn't an American citizen, but with this non-sense, you admit he is. The Iowa GOP wants to enforce an earlier version of an amendment to the Constitution, which would have become the 13th amendment had it actually been ratified. It would have said that no US citizen may accept "any title of nobility or honour" from a foreign government without the approval of Congress and if s/he does, they are stripped of US citizenship. The amendment never became law. (The actual 13th Amendment ended slavery in the US) If it had, then President Obama, would be stripped of his citizenship for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from the King of Sweden.
As the article points out, if the "original" 13th Amendment is enforced, then federal laws back to 1819 are invalid, which would make Iowa's statehood void. This would make Iowa a federal territory--oops, there go your states rights GOPers! On top of this, all those beloved Republicans who were knighted by the Queen of England would no longer be citizens! Or are we gonna go back to Jim Crow as well and only enforce the 13th against Black presidents?
IDIOTS!
Read the article, "Iowa GOP Embraces Plan To Strip Obama's Citizenship For Accepting Nobel Prize" reprinted here in part from The Huffington Post (link to full article below):
As we've already seen in Maine, some strange ideas are being folded into the emerging revisions of various state GOP platforms. But something truly bizarre is happening in Iowa.
Newsweek's Jerry Adler has paged through some "387 enumerated planks" of the Republican Party of Iowa's platform and, among the instances of "North American Union" paranoia and the upholding of manure as the only agricultural poop inveighed imbued by its creator with American exceptionalism, is a bizarre plan to strip President Barack Obama of his citizenship for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. What the what?
As Adler explains, the Iowa GOP is calling for the "reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th amendment" of the Constitution. The first wrinkle here is that the current 13th Amendment is a rather important one: it bans slavery. But that's the "bad optics" side of "Thirteentherism." Here's the side that is, as they say, "cray-cray" -- this is, in part, what the original 13th amendment said:
"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."
That language was originally considered by the states in 1810 but, as Jason Hancock at the Iowa Independent points out, "The amendment was ratified by 12 states but never got the 13th state that it needed, and thus, never became law."
This is the part where Obama, having accepted a Nobel Prize from the Nobel Committee -- five people appointed by the Norwegian Parliament -- gets stripped of his citizenship.
Read the full article HERE.
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