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To: Seizethecarp
Ha. I believe he flashed that BC like a magician pulling a rabbit out of his hat. To me, phony as the day is long. But why the drama, subterfuge, and deception?

Is he a natural-born citizen? Lots of debate around that that boils down to whether he needs only one or both parents to be U.S. citizens (here, that seems to be the issue, not where he was born).

11 posted on 04/11/2014 4:08:22 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew
Is he a natural-born citizen? Lots of debate around that that boils down to whether he needs only one or both parents to be U.S. citizens (here, that seems to be the issue, not where he was born).

According to the Standards then in place in 1787, only the Father needed to be a citizen. It didn't matter what citizenship the mother held, upon marriage, she assumed her husband's citizenship. This was the American common law of the time, and it was codified into statute law by congress I believe in the 1850s, but I would have to look it up again to be sure.

The relevant legal principle is "Partus Sequitur Patrem."

34 posted on 04/12/2014 11:04:01 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: PapaNew
But why the drama, subterfuge, and deception?

To play games with, and destroy the credibility of, the Right. That's all it's been about, from Day One. That, and suborning and enslaving the mindless.

Bozo's been taunting Rush Limbaugh from day one, teasing and baiting him to say something that Obama knows Rush knows .... still not sure what it is, but Rush never took the bait so I don't know what "it" was.

This guy Bozo is dangling more McGuffins than a sixteenth-century Scots playwright.

42 posted on 04/14/2014 3:19:31 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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