Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: BuckeyeTexan

Finally.
The real issue regarding 0bama’s citizenship revolves around issue of dual citizenship, or possibly multiple citizenship.

Was 0bama a “natural born” US citizen when he was born with both US and Kenyan citizenship?
Is he still a Kenyan citizen, and if not, when did that change?
Did he ever become an Indonesian citizen?
Was his US citizenship status ever lost or changed due to either of these issues?

Unfortunately, these real and legitimate questions have been overshadowed and tainted by the “Kenyan birth” nonsense.


15 posted on 09/21/2009 11:54:27 AM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: counterpunch

If he was born in Hawaii, he is in fact ‘natural born’.
Whether Kenya recognizes him as a citizen of Kenya, or of the UK, or not, is immaterial.

Once he has US citizenship, it cannot be renounced until
he is 18, and then only in the presence of US consular officals, not by his parents on his behalf, nor by a foreign
bureaucrat. Adoption by foreign nationals or posession of a
foreign passport do not jepoardize his citizenship. If he served in the Indonesian Army, on the other hand, you would have a case since this is specifically cited as an act of
renunciation.

If he in fact renounced in front of a US consular official, then the fact that he did so would be in the State Dept files and could be discovered. I haven’t yet heard of such a discovery, but I find it difficult to imagine that noone
has sought to have it disclosed.

So, these “real and legitimate” questions are fairly easily disposed of in the light of US law.


24 posted on 09/21/2009 12:27:41 PM PDT by rahbert
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies ]

To: counterpunch
Was his US citizenship status ever lost or changed due to either of these issues?

The answer to that would be no. He could lose his citizenship only if he gave it up himself, and only as an adult.

168 posted on 09/22/2009 4:02:11 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson