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To: Red Steel; curiosity; David
Do you even read the material at your links before you post them? Freedom of Speech Wins, via Citizen Wells, was not making the argument that 'natural born citizen requires two citizen parents.'

The post you screencapped points back to Post 1199. Where the claim being made is that Obama isn't a natural born citizen because his mother "was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship."

THAT was the argument being made. Not that two citizen parents are an absolute requirement. Plus, it was being made on the erroneous legal grounds of applying a statute explicitly concerning the inheritance of US citizenship by a child born OUTSIDE the states to a child born INSIDE the states.

As for your claim that David brought up the 'two-citizen-parent' argument before the election, here is a link straight to David's posts from December 2008. You can page back from there (all the posts from July-December fit onto about 5 pages). I see several instances of David referring to 'natural born citizen' requiring birth within the geographic United States (e.g., "I tend to doubt that the Supreme Court is going to hold him ineligible if he was born in the US."), but nothing pre-November 2008 making a two-citizen-parent argument.

118 posted on 01/18/2011 10:12:21 PM PST by LorenC
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To: LorenC
Do you even read the material at your links before you post them? Freedom of Speech Wins, via Citizen Wells, was not making the argument that 'natural born citizen requires two citizen parents.'

Now now more BS. I can point to that it was discussed on FR and elsewhere. You hung yourself in post 110 and hey obfuscator, you hung yourself again in post 116 too.

No, you simply can’t point to pre-November 2008 discussions of ‘two-citizen-parent’ claims.

You got called on your nonsense.

Here it is again troll-bot.

NBC Two citizen parents before 2008 election

120 posted on 01/18/2011 10:21:13 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: LorenC; Red Steel; LucyT; curiosity
I don't know that I can add much to Loren's #118.

The consistent position of the Constitutional Bar has been that any requirement of any class of citizenship (including Natural Born for purposes of Article II) has been overruled by adoption of the 14th Amendment.

You may not like it but the guys who argue this kind of stuff to the Supreme Court are all on the same side of the boat. And I think their view is likely to prevail. All he has to do is prove he was born in the USA and he wins, whatever his parentage is.

And my understanding of the arguments goes all the way back to Barry and I don't think there is much doubt. I tend to view the people who bring these suits on grounds of parentage or other commitments and not on place of birth as either not very competent or malicious because I also think it would be in Obama's interest to get one of them to the Court without the place of birth argument and get a decision he could claim was res judicata in a subsequent argument with a state filing officer in 2012.

154 posted on 01/19/2011 10:01:22 AM PST by David (...)
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