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Should Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks run for president or be deported? A sane country would have deported the obnoxious Turkish influencer who instead decided to run for president on a platform of attacking Israel during the Hamas war and insisting that despite the Constitution, he should be allowed to be president.
Arkansas election officials on Monday said online news personality Cenk Uygur, who was born in Turkey, can’t appear on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot next year.
“My office has received your candidate filing paperwork,” Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston said in a letter to Uygur. “However, based on your own proclamation, your are not qualified to hold the elected office for which you filed. Therefore, I cannot, in good faith, certify your name to the ballot.”
The Constitution sets simple requirements for president: A candidate must be at least 35 years old and “a natural born citizen.”
Several other states, including the early primary states of New Hampshire and Nevada, also have rejected his application to appear on their ballots.
Uygur said officials were treating naturalized citizens as “second-class.” He has argued that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution makes him eligible to run for president.
“This is the last form of acceptable bigotry in American society and I’m going to fight it with every fiber of my being,” Uygur said in a statement. “I’m not going to accept that I don’t belong in my own country.”
Uygur’s only presidential angle, apart from being constitutionally ineligible and widely hated, is trying to get on the Left of Cornel West on terrorism and Israel. But since his presidential campaign isn’t going anywhere, what about a PAC?
A newly formed progressive hybrid Political Action Committee (PAC) is looking to support Muslim candidates and naturalized citizens who want to run for federal office.
The group, dubbed “Cavalry PAC,” was filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) last Monday.
The group is headed by former Democratic Congressional candidate Kara Eastman and progressive media personality Cenk Uygur. It is set to launch on Tuesday, Eastman told The Hill.
The new PAC will continue the constitutional dogfight.
“We’re also going to continue the litigation that we started because the idea behind his [Uygur’s] campaign was fighting full equality for naturalized citizens, which we still believe the 14th Amendment grants,” Eastman said.
“We did not have the resources to be able to do that through the campaign, or the time really – that’s one of the main goals for this,” she continued. “So we want to pay off the legal bills, but then, just as importantly, if not, more importantly, move it forward with the potential of even suing in other states.”
If Obama can do it, why not Uygur? Sure even Bernie Sanders withdrew his endorsement of Uygur (and think how horrible you have to be for Bernie to risk offending his base by pulling an endorsement from one of his pet leftists), but there’s always tomorrow. And if the country keeps going the way that it is, the impossibilities of today become the nightmares of another day.
Unless America wakes up.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Deport Muslims …
Martina Vaslovik says
Get lost spammer!
Jeff Bargholz says
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Noah Andeark says
Cenk is a pedophile.
JL says
Think of the attempt as a trial balloon designed to kick-start the left into asking “why not?” until eventually they will claim that the Constitution never intended to exclude immigrants from running.
Donyaldo says
While our constitution stipulates that all are free to practice their religion it clearly precludes any practice that is in conflict with human rights or the law of the land. Islam, Islamic law, and innumerable practices of that faith are not compatible with our constitution or declaration of independence. It would not, in my opinion, be unreasonable to require the denunciation of that faith prior to assuming any political office in this country. Some day we will wake up.
TruthLaser says
Cenk Uygur could have run without mentioning or with lying on forms about his birth. Then, claims that he had been foreign born could have been responded to with “birther” and “conspiracy theory” epithets. What should be highlighted about him is that his last name is the same as a group facing physical and cultural genocide in China without that being a cause for him.
Martina Vaslovik says
Sharia law in the US would be incoming.
Ted Weiland says
DEUTERONOMY 28:43-45 ALERT!
“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:” (Deuteronomy 28:43-45)
QUESTION: Is America’s landscape dotted with Mosques, Synagogues, and Temples devoted to gods not Yahweh (God of the Bible) because of the First Commandment or because of the First Commandment violating First Amendment?
CLUE: It’s not because of the First Commandment!
Consequently, every America who promotes the First Amendment is complicit in everything biblically abominable (including terrorist acts and our posterity proselytized to their false gods) committed in the name of any of these false gods and/or at the hands of their devotees.
For more, see Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of free online book “Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at bible versus constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 11.
Deborah says
This was bound to happen! Our leaders allowed Obama to be President for 8 years, though he was hardly a natural born citizen, and it is widely believed he is orchestrating the Biden Regime right now. The lawlessness and hatred of Trump and America have Obama’s fingerprints all over it. He was raised to bring down our Constitution and indeed he taught a class in the Constitution in which he dismissed it as “a document of negative rights” . Referring no doubt to those golden words in the both the Declaration and the Constitution that specify “Congress shall make no law…” and ” Government deriving their just powers from the Consent of the governed” and “the Right of the people to keep and bear Arms” just to name a few. And why was Nikki Haley allowed to run? Both her parents were not American Citizens ! But Democrats and Republicans were allowed to break the rules in the interest of diversity so it was OK? No, neither of those candidates was OK. Instead we were more racially divided and even accused of White Supremacy! The very encouraging Black and Hispanic support for Trump may put this sad chapter to rest and we Americans can pull together to save our Country. It may be our last chance. But we must respect our founding documents and the firm foundation they give us or I believe we are doomed.
Jeff Bargholz says
Stank Wigger? I hate that fat asshole.