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It is not my intent to re-hash MvH or 511 here. I posted this thread to point out that IMO there is NO REASON to justify the citation of Marguet-Pillado by the Obama legal team other than to move the goalpost on the NBC definition to include any baby born anywhere who is “biologically-related” to a US citizen. No marriage or actual hands-on real-life parenting to pass American values to the little whelp are needed!

The motivation for this moving of NBC goal posts, IMO, is knowledge by the Obama legal team that Barry was born in circumstances very loosely analogous to those of Mexican-born Marguet-Pillado...but in Kenya! I can find no other legal explanation for the citation to Marguet-Pillado.

I was not trying to rehash MvH, but rather, to point out that Olson and Tribe, two constitutional scholars who have both been mentioned as possible SCOTUS nominees, hold that natural born citizenship can be obtained separately through either jus sanguinis or jus solis. Since the issue has never really been tested in the courts and we have examples of Vice Presidents and now President who appear to have been found eligible to be on the ballot, a precedent has been set.

The issue of what constitutes "natural born citizen" needs to be resolved ASAP since we have 300,000 to 400,000 anchor babies born each year to illegal aliens and we also have millions of Americans living and working abroad either thru the government or the private sector. Today one in 8 residents of this country is foreign born and by 2050 the number will be one in five residents.

I suspect that the Marguet-Pillado citation may be just another distraction to get folks all upset about the BC issue and ignore Obama's record and policies. The WH website offers T-Shirts and mugs for sale making fun of the BC issue.

I am as upset as anyone about this issue. Fraud has been committed, but I don't know if it is the issue we should be concentrating on in the runup to the election.