Posted on 07/30/2009 1:58:46 PM PDT by steve-b
Man do I get the hate mail when I bring up the subject of Barack Obama's birth certificate. Apparently White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is just as frustrated as I am about this 'birther' crowd. Yesterday he was asked what he thinks it will take to make the birthers go away.
He says, "I almost hate to indulge in such an august setting as the White House -- and I mean this in seriousness -- the White House briefing room, discussing the made-up fictional nonsense of whether the president was born in this country ... If I had some DNA, it wouldn't assuage those that don't believe he was born here. But I have news for them and for all of us: The president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the 50th state of the greatest country on the face of the earth. He's a citizen."
Can you believe that we are six months into this presidency and there are still people out there who wake up every morning and worry about the fact that they believe Barack Obama is not a US citizen.
That $100,000 prize is going to be pretty hard to dance around, right Steve?
I guess you forgot that GWB was "selected not elected".
The left wingers held onto that one for 8 years and what harm did it do to their cause?
Here is a key point you are missing.
Citizenship is ‘sticky’.
Just because one country (Indonesia) demands that you only be a citizen of one country, it does not mean that the other countries (U.K., U.S.A.) have to recognize that act.
To renounce your U.S. citizenship when you are overseas, you are required to go to the U.S. embassy and do it there. They don’t recognize any other recunciation.
Similarly. If you naturalize into the U.S., and renounce your citizenship to another country, in public, in a U.S. Court, apparently that other country (England) does not recognize the renunciation unless you also go to their embassy and do it there.
Maybe Steve-B will collect the big prize?
NO ONE is going to acknowledge all of these facts. To do so would lead to a constitutional crisis. Ann Dunham is your classic expatriate and I think a clear look at the facts provides a good case for concluding that she expatriated her son.
I believe he is a natural born citizen for one very important reason: Biden as president would be even worse.
Nice rant!
Dear Neal:
The issue is just this one thing:
Let’s SEE the birth certificate. There’s a reason Obama doesn’t want us to see it. So let’s see it.
No theories. No speculation. No kookery.
Just let us SEE it.
BTW: You position on abortion STINKS. Our country is headed for destruction unless we stop the MURDER of BABIES.
Yup! steve,,, go away!
Thing is Gibbs stated he was a citizen, he didn’t step into it and state he is a Natural born citizen. Wonder why he won’t step over that boundary?
Someone should definitely ask that question - which is it, Natural born or just Citizen? Inquiring minds need to know!
I always said O chose Biden as an insurance policy...when you follow Biden, you get Pelosi....(line of presidency if president unable to finish term....Polosi is more of a nightmare than Biden...
b) He wants the controversy to continue and pigeon-hole the "birthers" as nutty racists
*** DING DING DING *** No more calls; we have a winner!
No, not if he was born on Hawaii.
Parents cannot renounce US Nationality on behalf of their
kids.
http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_776.html
Read it, didn’t write it.
Yeh, like we’re not in the middle of a Constitutional crisis now. The whole thing!
I didn’t write that rANT btw.
Nice summation though!
He didn’t have to renounce it - he was born of a US Citizen and a British Citizen, not from 2 US Citizens!
He also was adopted by Soetoro, what happened to that name. He just decided to change it with no paper trail?
“Biden as president would be even worse.”
Nope. He’d be easier to beat in 2012.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.