[TChris]

By the way, this case cannot win. I’m pretty sure it’s solid tradition for all children born on U.S. soil, regardless of dual citizenship, to be considered U.S. citizens at birth.

For the gazillionth time... The Constitution requires that the President be a Natural born citizen, not just a citizen.

Natural Born

[Chet 99]

Obama either was a natural born citizen at the time of birth or he is an illegal alien who should be deported (because he never went through the naturalization process). Take your pick.

[calenel]

For the gazillionth time, ‘natural born’ is defined as ‘having a status or condition from birth’ and nowhere in US Law or the Constitution is it redefined. It doesn’t matter if Obama had or has citizenships in a hundred other countries, so long as he had US citizenship at birth. While multi citizenship might be undesirable it is not a Constitutional disqualifier. There is no ‘citizen at birth but not natural born’ class of citizen because ‘citizen at birth’ or ‘having citizenship at birth’ is the same as ‘natural born citizen’. The term ‘natural born’ came into the language 200 years before the COTUS was written. If another definition had been created by the time the COTUS was written or even shortly thereafter, you can be certain it would have made it into the dictionary by now, another 200 years down the road.

[txhurl]

bttt

[Non-Sequitur]

Natural Born

So what is the difference between Natural Born Citizen and Citizen at Birth?

[jla]

The passage in our Constitution reads a natural born citizen or a citizen of the United States.

[kabar]

What is the definition of natural born? There are three ways to become a US citizen, birth thru blood, jus sanguinis; birth on US soil, jus solis; and naturalization. The first two are, IMO, natural born. If Obama was born in the US, he is a natural born US citizen. If he was born in Kenya, then he has a problem.

[Mr_Peter]

"For the gazillionth time... The Constitution requires that the President be a Natural born citizen, not just a citizen."

So what's your point? He's disqualified because of a C Section? Stop wasting our time posting this crap. Never going to happen.

[Drew68]

For the gazillionth time... The Constitution requires that the President be a Natural born citizen, not just a citizen.

If you think that in 2008 the USSC is going to recognize that there are "first class" (natural born) and "second class" Americans citizens, all born on American soil, you're crazy.

[Tublecane]

“For the gazillionth time... The Constitution requires that the President be a Natural born citizen, not just a citizen.”

As far as I know, this suit does not dispute that Obama was born in Hawaii, which in itself, in my opinion, would make him a natural born citizen.

[SerafinQ]

also, its not a matter of tradition, its a matter of constitutional law, which is absolute and not subject to opinion or interpretation.

[cacoethes_resipisco]

> For the gazillionth time... The Constitution requires
> that the President be a Natural born citizen, not just a
> citizen.

Even if both Teh Won’s parents were 3 eyed aliens from the planet Zork and had just landed in Hawaii moments before his birth, he would still be a natural born US citizen.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/citizen.asp

[EDINVA]

“For the gazillionth time... The Constitution requires that the President be a Natural born citizen, not just a citizen.”

sheesh, my kids were born by caesarian section, does that make them ineligible for POTUS?