If Obama's father was a Kenyan then how could Hussein be eligible to be POTUS?

8/26/2009 | Kellynla

[kellynla]

If Obama's father was a Kenyan then how could Hussein be eligible to be POTUS?

[Uncle Chip]

Nobody in Congress seems to have a question about his eligibility, possibly because they think it unlikely the State of Hawaii is participating in a scam.

So then the Congress should have no objection to an SR511 for Obama, right???? Where is it????

[Uncle Chip]

My childern are Natural Born Citizens.

of the Obama variety, no doubt, right.

[Drew68]

They can’t, and when you or I or anyone else tells them that, they pretend they cannot hear. They cannot face the reality that there is absolutely no basis for the myth they have believed all their lives invented shortly after Obama won the election.

Fixed it for you.

[Texan Tory]

“There is nothing in U.S. law that says that dual citizenship has ANY EFFECT at all on one’s U.S. citizenship.”

In my post, I was making the assumption that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born as either a U.S. or a British (via Kenya) citizen, it hadn’t even occurred to me that he may have entered the world as both, so you raise an interesting point. This just gives the Supreme Court even more wiggle room to rule in favor of Obama should a case on the question of his citizenship ever reach their docket.

[thecraw]

So you think someone who is a “citizen at birth” is an alien? You know that makes no sense. How can you defend such an irrational and ludicrous position?,br>
Twisting words again? Like I said before,NATURAL BORN CITIZEN is a UNIQUE requirement the Founders put in. Get that? UNIQUE! which means, one-of-a-kind. No other elected position in our Republic has such an eligibility requirement.

[Danae]

He can’t be. He is ineligible to be POTUS as a number of us have been saying since long before the Election.

[Danae]

No it doesn’t

[ReignOfError]

McCain was born in Panama which was a US territory at the time

Unless McCain is a lot older than reported, no. Panama has been an independent nation since 1903.

[Technical Editor]

“No it doesn’t”
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I have no idea what you’re responding to, so your post is meaningless to me...

[Technical Editor]

“Twisting words again? Like I said before,NATURAL BORN CITIZEN is a UNIQUE requirement the Founders put in. Get that? UNIQUE! which means, one-of-a-kind. No other elected position in our Republic has such an eligibility requirement.”

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That’s true. The president has to be a citizen from the moment of birth. A senator can be naturalized.

[Technical Editor]

“They can’t, and when you or I or anyone else tells them that, they pretend they cannot hear. They cannot face the reality that there is absolutely no basis for the myth they have believed all their lives invented shortly after Obama won the election.
Fixed it for you.”

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You fixed nothing. YOU may have begun to pay attention after Obama won the election, but the Supreme Court decisions have been around for more than 100 years.

[Technical Editor]

“In my post, I was making the assumption that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born as either a U.S. or a British (via Kenya) citizen, it hadn’t even occurred to me that he may have entered the world as both, so you raise an interesting point. This just gives the Supreme Court even more wiggle room to rule in favor of Obama should a case on the question of his citizenship ever reach their docket.”

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Right. He was both at birth. I don’t think wiggle room is needed. If you’re natural born, that is, a citizen at birth, nothing can take that away from you except your specific request to give it up. Hundreds of natural born Americans are also citizens of the nations in which they were born—people born of at least one U.S. citizen parent in a location outside the United States.

[Uncle Chip]

Thank You — I stand corrected.

[Drew68]

You fixed nothing. YOU may have begun to pay attention after Obama won the election, but the Supreme Court decisions have been around for more than 100 years.

Woah, I guess I shoulda used the < /s> tag!

Read some of my other posts on the subject. I'm not one who's buying into this crackpot Birther nonsense, least of all this "NBC=2 US citizen parents" bunkum that Donofrio is peddling.

[Texan Tory]

You’ve done a pretty good job here of arguing your points, and it seems to me that you’ve argued your points on the merits alone, but I can’t help but be curious as to your political perspective (conservative, liberal, pro-Obama, anti-Obama etc.). After spending a fair amount of time looking into this, I have come to the same conclusion as you, I think Obama really is a natural born citizen of the United States, and that efforts to challenge him on his citizenship will be fruitless. I think the energy of those who oppose him could be channeled more effectively by challenging him on his ideas and policies. That’s the approach I favor anyway.

[thecraw]

“Twisting words again? Like I said before,NATURAL BORN CITIZEN is a UNIQUE requirement the Founders put in. Get that? UNIQUE! which means, one-of-a-kind. No other elected position in our Republic has such an eligibility requirement.” *** That’s true. The president has to be a citizen from the moment of birth. A senator can be naturalized.

So with your logic, an illegal alien 9 months pregnant can slip across the border into El Paso, have a baby, head back into Mexico and (assuming that baby can later prove 14 years US residency) that baby would then be eligible for POTUS in 35 years ??? I GUARANTEE you that scenario does NOT fit in with the original intent of the Founding Fathers.

I'll bet you're still wringing your hands over the 2000 election too...

[Plummz]

That is wholly incorrect. The class of person you are referring to are naturalized at birth, they are not natural-born citizens.

Hope this helps.

[bgill]

I never said they lied but then they do claim Sun Yat Sen was born there. They haven't disclosed the entire truth. There are major questions about precisely where on the island he was born since one can't be born in two hospitals at the same time, if the parents were married, if there was an attending physician/midwife or if the birth witnessed outside the family, if it was a delayed registration, if a whole lot of other things. The bc is just the tip of the iceberg. The bc is the starting point. The bc is just one of dozens of cards in his very shaky house of cards. When he brings out the long form and shows his original passports and opens his college records and gives a reason for the dozens of social security numbers, and etc., I'll admit you were right all along but right now things smell very fishy.

[Technical Editor]

That is wholly incorrect. The class of person you are referring to are naturalized at birth, they are not natural-born citizens.

Hope this helps.

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An assertion without anything to back it up (law, SCOTUS decision) helps nobody. Truth isn’t established by making assertions without evidence to support them.

[Technical Editor]

So with your logic, an illegal alien 9 months pregnant can slip across the border into El Paso, have a baby, head back into Mexico and (assuming that baby can later prove 14 years US residency) that baby would then be eligible for POTUS in 35 years ??? I GUARANTEE you that scenario does NOT fit in with the original intent of the Founding Fathers.

I’ll bet you’re still wringing your hands over the 2000 election too...

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That is the law today, yes.

I despise everything Obama stands for. I am a conservative, conservative Republican and I love Dick Cheney with a passion.