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To: BillyBoy
It would be stupid to put this guy on the ticket, but I don't buy the argument that you have to be born in one of the states to be a natural born citizen, and I think living in territory over which the US flag flies should count for residency. Puerto Rico had its own US quarter, just like DC or Guam. It isn't land belonging to a foreign country.

If Romney is the Republican nominee, it will be the first election between two candidates neither of whose fathers was born in the US (if you count the colonies which later became the US as "US" in the case of the early Presidents).

Before Obama, I believe that the only Presidents with foreign-born fathers were Andrew Jackson and Chester Alan Arthur (the latter was elected Vice President and only became President because of his predecessor's assassination). Woodrow Wilson's mother was born in England.

80 posted on 04/14/2012 7:01:45 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

The whole government is trying to move the ball down the field toward the goalposts of global governance.


81 posted on 04/14/2012 7:11:32 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Woodrow Wilson’s mother became a citizen upon marriage to Woodrow Wilson’s father.


90 posted on 04/14/2012 8:27:52 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Obama is Romney lite)
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