Iowa GOP: Obama’s citizenship should be revoked because he accepted Nobel
The Iowa GOP is calling for the "reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th amendment" of the Constitution which loosely claims that any American who accepts foreign recognition should lose citizenship...
From Huffington Post:
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 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:
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