[Tellurian]

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

There's a loophole here. 0bama can remain president. Because of the second comma, the entire sentence can be construed to apply only to persons alive at the time of the adoption of the constitution. This clause does not apply to anyone born after the adoption of the constitution.

The argument can be, if it was intended to apply for all time, it would read: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.

The truth can come out without a crisis, so let's hear it. (0bama will claim he knew this all along). If 0bama's being blackmailed by anyone right now (Hillary, with her penchant for having records (passport records, for instance) filched?), the blackmail will stop.

Should I send this to Obama? Or to the Supreme Court Justices?

[aruanan]

Because of the second comma, the entire sentence can be construed to apply only to persons alive at the time of the adoption of the constitution.

No, because then it would mean that no one could be eligible to the Office of the President who wasn't a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. That's clearly impossible because it wouldn't allow for the election of a president after a relatively few number of years from its adoption. And it's not referring to a third type of candidate by default that means everyone else born anywhere else in the world after the adoption of the Constitution, whether a citizen or not or just someone who happened to want to run for the office. They were funky with spelling and punctuation back then, but they weren't stupid.

Should I send this to Obama? Or to the Supreme Court Justices?

Sure, if you want to make a fool of yourself by showing off an example of the fallacy of emphasis.