“The `Obots’ seem to be coming to us”
As a political matter, for the past several months we’ve had McCainiacs screaming at us that if we didn’t support the GOP—e.g. “Not voting for McCain is a vote for Obama!”—we’d be stuck with Obama.
Now that we (conservatives and McCain supporters: united at last, or we should be) have an opportunity to toss this unabashed marxist out on his ear—while defending the Constitution, I’ll add—I can’t understand the adamant defense of the man.
Is it a hangover from the attempt by Romneybots, Huckleberries, Paulists and Fredheads to paint Juan as not a NBC? Time to move on!
To give the “Obots” the benefit of the doubt, OK—they are genuinely concerned about the Constitution. If that’s the case, then Article Two says, “natural born citizen”. Let that be the `polestar’ and let’s drop all this: “He was born in Hawaii (we don’t know that he was) or “His Mom was American... “ (see the statute) or “Gee, the liberals will be mighty unhappy ........ screw them and the Hawaiian/Kenyan/Indonesian they rode in on!
Birth Abroad to One Citizen and One Alien Parent in Wedlock:
A child born abroad to one U.S. citizen parent and one alien parent acquires U.S. citizenship at birth under Section 301(g) INA provided the citizen parent was physically present in the U.S. for the time period required by the law applicable at the time of the child’s birth. (For birth on or after November 14, 1986, a period of five (5) years physical presence in the U.S., and two (2) after the age of fourteen (14) is required by the citizen parent. For birth between December 24, 1952 and November 13, 1986, a period of ten (10) years, five (5) after the age of fourteen (14) are required for physical presence in the U.S. to transmit U.S. citizenship to the child.