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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.