Replies

My dad came here from Norway around the age of 8. He tried to enlist right after Pearl Harbor but was rejected because of his citizenship status. He was a year later drafted even though he wasn’t a citizen – go figure. Because of several government snafus regarding his paperwork and his army discharge papers, he did not become a “naturalized” citizen until several years after he and my mom got married and my older brother was born. The judge officiating over the naturalization however told my dad this was a formality and in his opinion one that my dad should have be made to go through since outstanding service record and him having taken the military oath already proved his citizenship.

If Santorum’s dad had gotten his naturalization papers one day or one hour before Rick was born, would that make any difference?

The judge officiating over the naturalization however told my dad this was a formality and in his opinion one that my dad should have be made to go through since outstanding service record and him having taken the military oath already proved his citizenship.

The entire point of the NBC requirement is to prevent a president with the kind of divided loyalties we see with Obama.

Aldo Santorum showed where his loyalties were by serving in the US military in WWII.

If the birthers think they are pursuing some kind of intellectual consistency by stomping their feet and demanding naturalization papers for a WW II vet, it's just going to blow up in their faces. And the Obama-ites will use it against them, saying they are so nutty that they don't think a WW II vet is a citizen, so why should they be listened to about Obama?

But, then again, the birther movement has gone down some serious rabbit holes following the likes of Orly Taitz and Joe Farah.

If Aldo got his citizenship a Minute before Rick was born, then Rick would be a Natural Born Citizen. The requirement according to SCOTUS law born in the country to two parents who are it’s citizens.

If his dad was a citizen, then this should be EASY to prove, and frankly I really wish Rick would do just that. I am NOT at all a Romney supporter, and Newt isn’t going to have enough delegates. I do not want a Romney GOP candidate.

But I cannot support a candidate who doesn’t even meet the Constitutional Requirements for office. I didn’t make the laws, but for damn sure I want them followed. I want Santorum to provide the information I need to support him, and that is proof of his legal ability to hold the office he is running for. If he can’t do that, then he shouldn’t be running!

If he isn’t an NBC, then he is no better than Obama. That is a FAIL, a total FAIL.

My dad came here from Norway around the age of 8. He tried to enlist right after Pearl Harbor but was rejected because of his citizenship status. He was a year later drafted even though he wasn’t a citizen – go figure. Because of several government snafus regarding his paperwork and his army discharge papers, he did not become a “naturalized” citizen until several years after he and my mom got married and my older brother was born. The judge officiating over the naturalization however told my dad this was a formality and in his opinion one that my dad should have be made to go through since outstanding service record and him having taken the military oath already proved his citizenship.

Your story shows why Danae is so off-base. She demands adherence to the narrowest possible intepretation of the NBC clause while failing to comprehend that the intent of that clause - making sure a president does not have divided loyalties - was met by Aldo Santorum's military service. In her narrow world, paperwork matters more than military service, an absolute absurdity.

So somehow Rick Santorum's eligibility to be president could be blocked if Aldo Santorum's citizenship had been tied up by bureaucratic nonsense - and his military service and oath be damned.

Stupid, petty, petulant and short sighted, and quite frankly it is an insult to the notion of earning citizenship by serving this country. She is too wedded to her birther agenda to notice how badly she is coming across here.