Kevin Woster of the Rapid City Journal held a online live chat with SD SOS Chris Nelson today regarding his work during the 2008 elections and the repeated requests from constituents like myself who questioned “JUST WHO CONFIRMED OBAMA WAS CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED TO BE ON OUR BALLOTS HERE IN SD”?  There were also questions regarding Nelson’s stance on certain current issues of the day including but not limited to:

“NELSONS’ HAIRCUT STYLE”:

[12:59] [Comment From Voter Voter : ] 

You would look younger if you changed your haircut. Why is your hair so conservative?

[1:00] Because I am conservative. Guess the hair matches the guy!

I guess the prescreened lib commenter doesn’t approve of conservative haircuts. Also obviously prescreened was the type of question to be asked & how it was to be asked.

Woster a few days ago asked a question of Nelson as well as the other candidates running for the US House seat for SD on Obama’s qualifications which was picked up by the Washington ComPost as well as my conservative patriots at WorldNetDaily(WND). Nelson’s response was:

[M]eeting the constitutional qualifications to be President is a very important issue. If President Obama isn’t constitutionally qualified, it would be the biggest scam ever perpetuated on the American people. MANY people contacted me as Secretary of State prior to and after the election asking how Obama could be on our ballot given this controversy. Absent a court finding that he isn’t a natural born citizen, we have to take the certification from the National Democratic Convention at face value.

OK, so Nelson took the certification from the DNC at face value that Obama was qualified. Now I want the readers to see that certification for yourselves and tell me what in this document would lead you to take at its face value that the “WON” was qualified:

2008-SD DNC and RNC Party-Election Certifications

 “Nominated” a couple of guys, CHECK! But I just can’t seem to grasp where they were actually qualified as eligible under the qualifications set forth in the US Constitution.  Did you catch it? NO? Thus I must ask then, “Why for Hawaii but not for the other 49 states in the Union?”

With this continuing to be in the forefront of my mind and with all the newly acquired evidence that disputes Obama’s nativity story, my questions submitted to Nelson were as follows as in all reality, I really can’t see Obama getting removed other than by defeat in the 2012 election. What we have to work on is our citizenship & immigration laws and start holding our elected officials feet to the fire and make them enforce the laws already in place.

question #1 sent at the beginning of the chat(paraphrased as I forgot to copy it before hitting the send button): On March 25, 2010, the Kenyan Parliament recorded in its official record of the day that Obama was born in Kenya and NOT even a Native American. The US has been usurping the citizenship laws for decades. This is the main problem with illegal immigration and our border problem. What will you do to fix these two important issues?

question #2 rephrased & sent at 45 min into the chat: Chris, if elected, what will you do to enforce border control and put an end to the illegal practice of birthright citizenship for children born to aliens/foreigners who are legally & illegally here?

Link to the Official Kenyan Parliament records HERE. Page 31 paragraph 2: If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation, how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the President of America?

Instead of my 2nd question getting asked, Mr Jim Dittes was allowed a 3rd question which also just happened to be a few minutes after mine was sent in and on the same subject and quite watered down. Boy, sounds the white house press rules doesn’t it? Woster evidently has been taking lessons from Obama & Gibbles.

But I digress. Following up on his previous questioning of the candidates, the 1st questions asked of Nelson regarding Presidential qualifications & Obama’s qualifications during today’s chat were:

[11:59] Chris: Thanks very much for joining us, again. Let’s begin with a question I asked you and the other U.S. House candidates here on Mount Blogmore last week , which has gotten quite a bit of attention. As you know, some people suspect that President Obama might not have actually been born in the United States, in Hawaii, as he contends and his birth records seem to show. Do you doubt he was born in the USA? K.W.

[12:08] That question certainly has generated interest which doesn’t surprise me. Of all the issues I’ve dealt with as Secretary of State I have had more public comment on this question over the last year and a half than any other issue I’ve dealt with.

The most important point I can make is this, I strongly believe that constitutional requirements for any office must be met whether its President or Secretary of State or United States House of Representatives.

The President has met all the requirements to have his name placed on South Dakota’s ballot and be elected by the electoral college. That is my concern as Secretary of State.

Personally, I’ve looked at this from a number of angles and am satisfied that President Obama was born in the United States.

[12:08] Chris: Is that a change of position from what you said last week, or simply a clarification or expansion on it? K.W.

[12:11] No change of position. I said last week that the constitutional qualifications were important. I also said that absent a court ruling otherwise, all the requirements had been met to place the name on our ballot. Last week I did not affirmatively state my personal position which I have today.

[12:11] Chris: Fair enough. I think you’ve said that you heard doubts about the president’s actual birth place from a number of South Dakotans during the 2008 campaign. Do you think a significant number of South Dakotans, and Republicans in particular, have doubts about where the president was born? K.W.

[12:12] I’ve certainly heard from many who have that doubt but I don’t know what percentage of South Dakotans or Republicans would have that doubt.

Hmm, so Nelson admits that the Constitutional requirements for ALL offices must be met, yet he didn’t even bother to check, he just assumed because as we can CLEARLY SEE, the DNC certification did NOT state that he was qualified per the US Constitution as required by DNC bylaws to be on ALL their certification forms. Nice job Chris, Way to Go NOT protecting South Dakota’s ballots and actually doing your job to ensure that the candidates were actually constitutionally qualified.

Finally after the prescreened commenters got their questions asked & somewhat answered, Woster just couldn’t resist getting in another dig:

[1:09] Chris: Let’s end where we began, with the “birther” concerns. Do you believe John Thune was born in Jones County? Or do you think he might actually have been born in Lyman County, and spirited across the border in the middle of the night so he could claim to be a natural-born citizen of Murdo? K.W.

[1:11] Let’s end where I began. As long as Senator Thune is constitutionally qualified to be our United States Senator, it doesn’t matter.
Thanks for the visit!
Chris

[1:11] Chris: OK, but next time, we’re going to ask you to swear that you were born in Aurora County, not Brule County, as some have alleged…. K.W.

Well, lucky for us, Nelson will not be in charge of that task & I certainly hope the next SOS takes their job with a bit more due diligence and seriousness as to these qualifications and the ramifications to our national security & sovereignty if they are allowed to go unchecked. We also now have clear insight into  liberal Kevin Woster view of the US Constitution as the supreme law of the land.

More importantly we know where Nelson stands and how far he will go to cover-up his indiscretion of NOT making sure the candidate was in fact constitutionally qualified by requesting a certified copy of Obama’s long form birth certificate. You know that same form that is required for every child entering school, every person getting a driver’s license, etc, etc. Nope, no checky there, Nelson seems to be very comfortable in passing the buck.

Is this the trait you want for your next US Congressman in DC? Haven’t we already had enough of this “I’m for the Constitution” but the as soon as they are out of sight, they turn their back to it and throw the Constitution as well as their ethics out the window for the sake of political expediency?

You can read the entire online chat here: Live chat with US congressional candidate Chris Nelson, currently the SD Sec of State