...."I'll third that!"
Posted on 06/11/2008 6:25:31 PM PDT by Neville72
We already know that Obama is not QUALIFIED to be the President, we now know that he is not ELIGIBLE to be President under American law.
This is a great comment to a post over at Michelle Malkin’s blog:
On June 10th, 2008 at 8:37 am, legendx3 said:
Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. Natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between “December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986? . Presidential office requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents, which of course is what exempts John McCain though he was born in the Panama Canal. US Law very clearly stipulates: “…If only one parent was a U.S. Citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16.” Barack Obama’s father was not a U.S. Citizen and Obama’s mother was only 18 when Obama was born, which means though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen perhaps because of Hawai’i being a territory) the mother fails the test for being so for at least 5 years **prior to** Barack Obama’s birth, but *after* age 16. It doesn’t matter *after* . In essence, she was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship. At most, there were only 2 years elapsed since his mother turned 16 at the time of Barack Obama’s birth when she was 18 in Hawai’i. His mother would have needed to have been 16+5= 21 years old, at the time of Barack Obama’s birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen. As aformentioned, she was a young college student at the time and was not. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at that time his mother would have needed to have waited to have him as the only U.S. Cizen parent. Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would still disqualify him from holding the office.
*** Naturalized citizens are ineligible to hold the office of President. *** Though Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii at age 10, all the other info does not matter because his mother is the one who needed to have been a U.S. Citzen for 10 years prior to his birth on August 4, 1961, with 5 of those years being after age 16. Further, Obama may have had to have remained in the country for some time to protect any citizenship he would have had, rather than living in Indonesia. Now you can see why Obama’s aides stopped his speech about how we technically have more than 50 states, because it would have led to this discovery. This is very clear cut and a blaring violation of U.S. Election law. I think the Gov. Of California would be very insterested in knowing this if Obama were elected President without being a natural-born U.S. Citizen, and it would set precedence. Stay tuned to your TV sets because I suspect some of this information will be leaking through over the next several days…
DAWG! This guy really is about flaunting his illegal behavior in all of our faces, isn’t he?
Is Ron Paul behind this? I intensely dislike B’roke but this isn’t the way to g’ter done.
If you read the opinion closely, Hawaii’s statehood status IS nOT the issue. Obama’s parents are the issue.
Obama did not have two parents who were U.S. citizens so the age requirements of his mother kicked in. That’s the sole issue as clearly spelled out in the opinion.
While it would have been nice if “legendx3” had listed and linked references, you are shooting from the hip by calling this “stupidity”. As for “there is no doubt that Barak Obama is a natural born US citizen”, yes, there is reasonable doubt.
I say this as the father of a Kenyan born daughter. Both parents are US citizens, so she was able to claim US citizenship.
You make a good point except for the minor fact that THIS APPEARS TO BE TRUE AND ACCURATE according to the relevant laws at the time! And it is getting traction.
bump ...
We change the rules on the fly for democrats.
If this ever went to court it would drag out for years...Osama would make sure of that.If it’s still pending on Inauguration Day he’ll most certainly be sworn in and if, during his tenure as President,the Supreme Court were to decide that he wasn’t a “natural born citizen” then a huge,years-long court battle would begin regarding removing him from office.Translation...this will not prevent him serving one or two full terms,as decided by the electorate.
I would say this rumor is exactly behind getting ahold of his Birth Certificate. What’s he scared of? Mohammed?
Because they aren’t arguing the law. They are trying to twist and squeeze the law to fit a goal.
Obama’s mother did not have to be 21 for him to be a natural born citizen. She was a citizen, she was in a U.S. State when he was born, thus he is a natural born U.S. citizen regardless of her age.
The “five years after 16 years of age” is irrelevent if he matches the requirements set before that clause, and he does.
The fact that this keeps being brought up is stupid.
But is she considered to be a "natural born" citizen? Or hasn't that question ever come up with her?
“If this ever went to court it would drag out for years.”
Like Bush v Gore?
Won’t the lefties go absolutely berserk if their candidate’s fate is decided by the SCOTUS.....again.
Too delicious.
...."I'll third that!"
He was born in the U.S. to a U.S. citizen.
Done.
If you're born in the United States, you're a US citizen unless you're the child of a foreign diplomat.
Don't try to practice law without a license.
Was he born in Hawaii? Yes. Was Hawaii a State? Yes. Was his mother a U.S. citizen? Yes.
He is a natural born U.S. citizen.
“Obama’s mother did not have to be 21 for him to be a natural born citizen. She was a citizen, she was in a U.S. State when he was born, thus he is a natural born U.S. citizen regardless of her age.”
Apparently, the law at the time of his birth said otherwise.
I guess she will just have to run for president once she turns 35 so that we can find out. :-)
Murmers about this for months. Malkin has now picked it up.
Possible? yes.
probable? no.
Should Obama give proof? Yes.
The Muslim, Barrack Hussein, was born in Hawaii and is a natural born citizen.
However, as I understand how the law is written, Barrack Hussein is not eligible to become President of the United States based upon the status of his parents.
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