OMG. You thought Tenthers are idiots \u2013 meet the Thirteenthers! Read the highlighted text twice.<\/p>\n
Think Progress \u00bb Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama\u2019s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize<\/a><\/p>\n The Iowa GOP is not trying to overturn this amendment to reinstate slavery. Instead, it wants to reintroduce the \u201coriginal 13th Amendment<\/a>\u201d first offered<\/a> by senator Phillip Reed of Maryland in 1810. The amendment states that \u201cif any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor\u201d from a \u201cforeign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen\u201d and \u201cshall be incapable of holding any office of trust.\u201d In receiving only 12 out of the 13 votes needed for ratification, the amendment was never adopted. <\/p>\n Traditional supporters of the idea are known as \u201cThirteenthers<\/a>,\u201d who seek to prevent those with the title of \u201cesquire,\u201d such as lawyers and bankers, from participating in government. But according to its spokeswoman, Danielle Plogmann, the Iowa GOP supports it as an attack on President Obama\u2019s Nobel Prize win:<\/p>\n There are, of course, other implications of Thirteenthism, such as ensuring that the United States never again suffers the humiliation<\/u><\/strong> of having a president win the Nobel Peace Prize<\/font>. That was just what the Iowa Republicans had in mind, according to Plogmann, who wrote in an e-mail that the plank \u201cwas meant to make a statement about the delegates\u2019 opinion about Mr. Obama receiving the prize.\u201d<\/strong> (Presumably they didn\u2019t mind if, in the process, they were also making a statement about any American scientist or writer unlucky enough to win a Nobel.) Unfortunately for them, the Department of Justice looked into whether Obama needed Congressional approval to accept the Nobel under the existing emoluments clause, and based on the meaning of \u201cforeign state\u201d (which would not cover the Nobel Prize Committee) concluded that he did not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Iowa is currently \u201cthe only state<\/a> where this type of plank has been introduced into the GOP platform.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Think Progress \u00bb Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama\u2019s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OMG. You thought Tenthers are idiots \u2013 meet the Thirteenthers! Read the highlighted text twice. Think Progress \u00bb Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama\u2019s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize The Iowa GOP is not trying to overturn this amendment to reinstate slavery. Instead, it wants to reintroduce the \u201coriginal 13th Amendment\u201d … Continue reading This Week’s–no! This Month’s WTF?!<\/span> \n
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