Radio host takes tour of Obama conspiracy theories

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By Jason Hancock 3/12/09 4:24 PM

... conservative radio host Jan Mickelson Wednesday .. dedicated his show on Iowa’s largest radio station to .. discussion of urban legends with .... Jerome Corsi, who .. regaled listeners with tales of a conspiracy within the administration of President Barack Obama to give up U.S. sovereignty ...

Next, Corsi and Mickelson turned their attention to Barack Obama’s birth certificate “controversy” ...

Corsi is .. known for co-authoring “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” a book filled with error-laden attacks on the military service record of 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry; and “Obama Nation,” a book .. described by FactCheck.org as “a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.”

The end of the afternoon program was a one man tour de force of Mickelson proclaiming the 14th Ammendment to the U.S. Constitution was never legally ratified, and thus, children of foreign born parents are not citizens of this country even if they are born here.

http://iowaindependent.com/12624/radio-host-takes-tour-of-obama-conspiracy-theories



... The Fourteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress on June 13, 1866, when it passed the House, Cong. Globe (39th Cong., 1st Sess.) 3148, 3149, having previously passed the Senate on June 8. Id., 3042. It appears officially in 14 Stat. 358 under date of June 16, 1866. Ratification was probably completed on July 9, 1868, when the legislature of the twenty-eighth State (South Carolina or Louisiana) approved the amendment, there being then 37 States in the Union. However, Ohio and New Jersey had prior to that date ''withdrawn'' their earlier assent to this amendment. Accordingly, Secretary of State Seward on July 20, 1868, certified that the amendment had become a part of the Constitution if the said withdrawals were ineffective. 15 Stat. 706-707. Congress on July 21, 1868, passed a joint resolution declaring the amendment a part of the Constitution and directing the Secretary to promulgate it as such. On July 28, 1868, Secretary Seward certified without reservation that the amendment was a part of the Constitution. In the interim, two other States, Alabama on July 13 and Georgia on July 21, 1868, had added their ratifications ... http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendments.html#f6