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To: Vermont Lt

You can be a citizen because your parents are citizens. But citizenship doesn’t equal eligibility for the office of the President. The requirement, per Article II, for eligibility to be President states you must be born here.

The Democrats are just waiting to spring this on Republicans after the nominating convention.

The US Senate can pass all kinds of nicely worded statements - those do not have the weight of the US Constitution. It can take years to add amendments to the US Constitution.


241 posted on 08/10/2008 4:57:45 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: SatinDoll

For the purposes of foreign births, the assumption is that when the father is “assigned” to that duty station, the recorded place of birth is the embassy. THAT is american soil.

You guys are picking nits.

This place is starting to sound like Bill Clinton parsing the meaning of the word “is”. Dont you think there were a few lawyers around vetting this stuff long before we started looking at it.

How about we just beat Obama the old fashioned way—we get more votes that he does. Electoral votes, that is.


244 posted on 08/10/2008 5:06:56 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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