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To: libstripper

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.


23 posted on 06/11/2008 6:41:47 PM PDT by Neville72 (uist)
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To: Neville72
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.

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.

35 posted on 06/11/2008 6:48:30 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Neville72
Obama did not have two parents who were U.S. citizens so the age requirements of his mother kicked in.

Irrelevent. He is a natural born U.S. citizen due to the fact that he was born in the United States to a citizen.

Don't have to go to the age of the mother factor, it's done.

41 posted on 06/11/2008 6:50:22 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Neville72
The problem is, as I stated, that he was apparently born in Hawaii while Hawaii was a state, something that appears to trump everything else and make him a natural born citizen under the same SCOTUS precedent that makes children of illegal aliens who are merely born in the U.S. natural born U.S. citizens. The way this rule is written, it appears to apply to children of U.S. citizens who are born outside of the U.S. Again, my question is, "How do we challenge his eligibility to run for POTUS, given the act that he was apparently born in the U.S.?"
53 posted on 06/11/2008 6:58:09 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Neville72
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.

Except that the 'opinion' seems to be built on BS. The applicable statute is Section 301 of 8 USC 1401:

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years.

Two years, not five. After age 14, not 16. Even if he wasn't born in Hawaii, Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

60 posted on 06/11/2008 7:07:17 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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