[philman_36]

BP seemed to say the intent of the founders would not just prevent Obama from being a natural-born citizen, but also those non-Anglo Saxon Europeans. That would exclude plenty of white people.

I don't agree with your Anglo-Saxon angle. None are more Anglo-Saxon than Germans.
@The latter included the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who were all from northern Germany or southern Denmark.

@Do you really want to know what Ben Franklin penned regarding who should immigrate to America and who should not?

Like this one about Germans? @The Support of the Poor - Benjamin Franklin 1753

He even used part of @one of Franklin's essays himself on that thread...
@#138

I too shall miss his efforts on the eligibility issue, but on that alone.

[philman_36]

...but also those non-Anglo Saxon Europeans.
The French would have been out of luck under that as well as they descended from Gauls.

[edge919]

I don't agree with your Anglo-Saxon angle. None are more Anglo-Saxon than Germans.

Your source doesn't appear to agree with you.

The term 'Anglo-Saxon' did not become common until the eighth century, when people on the continent started using it to distinguish between the inhabitants of Britain and the Saxons who remained in northern Germany.

This backs up my point as well as the quotes from Ben Franklin, such as this one:

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

Is the "race" component supposed to be because Franklin used the term "swarthy" to describe the complexion of the non-English Europeans such as Russians and Swedes??