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If Obama's father was a Kenyan then how could Hussein be eligible to be POTUS?
8/26/2009 | Kellynla

Posted on 08/26/2009 12:40:24 PM PDT by kellynla

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


TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: article2section; bc; birthcertificate; birthers; certifigate; colb; kenyan; obama; obamafamily; potus
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To: Godebert

The decision clearly said that the “issue” of a non citizen parent is a “natural born subject” and as much a citizen as the natural born “issue” of two citizens.


281 posted on 08/27/2009 3:35:13 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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To: Plummz
None of which has any bearing on the qualifications laid out in Article 2.

Sure it does. If the 14th Amendment hadn't overruled Dred Scott, Obama would not be a citizen at all, and therefore couldn't be a natural-born citizen.

282 posted on 08/27/2009 3:36:25 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

So, you’re assuming Barry’s father is Frank Marshall Davis, and this is recorded in legitimate vital records somewhere? That is the only possible relevance of your highly theoretical discussion.

But then, how do you explain his claim to be the son of a British subject? Are you saying Barry is a liar?


283 posted on 08/27/2009 3:51:46 PM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Plummz
So, you’re assuming Barry’s father is Frank Marshall Davis, and this is recorded in legitimate vital records somewhere? That is the only possible relevance of your highly theoretical discussion. But then, how do you explain his claim to be the son of a British subject? Are you saying Barry is a liar?

No, I'm assuming the fact that he has some African ancestry, as shown by his skin color. Under Dred Scott, that would mean that he couldn't be a U.S. citizen of any kind. Dred Scott was overruled by the 14th Amendment.

284 posted on 08/27/2009 3:58:25 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

You seem to be mistaken concerning both Dred Scott and Amendment XIV.

Dred Scott applied to descendants of Africans brought over in slavery and under U.S. jurisdiction; not to the sons of British nationals visiting on a student visa.

Amendment XIV did not amend the qualifications necessary to serve as President, as laid out in Section 2.

Hope this helps.


285 posted on 08/27/2009 4:04:15 PM PDT by Plummz (You seepro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Godebert
The rather short passage the author dwells upon is excerpted in the middle. Here is his version...

His allegiance to the United States is direct and immediate…and his child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, ‘If born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen…’

That little “...” hides a lot, and it was deliberately left off so as to NOT provide you with relevant information.

Here is what the “...” hides...

“strong enough to make a natural subject, for if he hath issue here, that issue is a natural-born subject;”

286 posted on 08/27/2009 4:10:10 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?)
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To: Non-Sequitur
McCain is a natural-born citizen because both his parents were citizens, the U.S. law in force at the time made that clear.

Bookmarked as "Non-Sequintur admitted Natural Born = Both Parents Citizens."

287 posted on 08/27/2009 4:29:08 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: Non-Sequitur
It doesn't say he was born on U.S. territory, but on a U.S. military base.

McCain was born of two US citizens on land that was under US jurisdiction. But again, he isn't POTUS. If he were, there would probably be discussion on it. As you are aware, the Senate resolution committee that agreed to the two parental citizenship included Hussein himself. If he could agree to that, he knows he is a fraud.

288 posted on 08/27/2009 4:35:26 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: txoilman
SCOTUS in Minor and Wong Kim Ark – both decided years after the adoption of the 14th Amendment – tell us the definition of natural born citizen is not written into the Constitution. Any attempt to simplify the issue by stating that all 14th Amendment native born citizens are also POTUS eligible on that basis is a fraudulent stateme

A very handy way of putting it: 14th Amendment citizenship at birth is clearly not natural born citizenship, because both Minor and Wong Kim Ark, decided after ratification of that Amendment, declare that the definition is not written into the Constitution.

I've made a similar point many times in the past, regarding Minor, but hinged upon the fact that the defintion of two citizen parents and born on U.S. soil being never in doubt, coming after the 14th Amendment, precluded any such interpretation of citizenship at birth under the 14th Amendment.

Take the two together, and that should effectively lay to rest any contention that the natural born citizen eligibility requirement was somehow unintentionally altered and broadened, by virtue of the 14th Amendment. And, additionally, it should effectively lay to rest any contention that citizenship at birth, purely in and of itself, is natural born citizenship.

289 posted on 08/27/2009 5:09:35 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Godebert

“You’re playing word games again. “Moment of birth”? That’s cute, but we’re discussing ‘Natural born’ citizenship as written in the Constitution. The founding fathers meant what they said. ‘Natural born citizen’ means what it says. The founding fathers were clearly using that term as it was defined in the ‘Law of Nations’ at the time. “

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Produce the name of one legal scholar that believes that. Just one?


290 posted on 08/27/2009 6:19:24 PM PDT by Technical Editor
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To: bgill

“Except that per the Constitution he needs to prove he is eligible which he’s blocking at every turn.”

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Stupid as it may be, there is no statute that mandates the testing for eligibility. The Congress can challenge for eligibility during the Electoral College vote count, but that’s it — there is no legal mandate for demanding him to show anything to anyone. It is stupid that Congress never enacted a law, but it’s the reality we face. The law is NOT on our side.


291 posted on 08/27/2009 6:23:04 PM PDT by Technical Editor
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To: marvlus

Both parents need to be US citizens, which is one part of why it matters not where O was born. No matter WHERE he was born, the fact remains he is only one-half American. He could have been born in the White House, and he still would have had paternal allegiances to Kenya (and Great Britain). Being adopted by his Indonesian stepfather adds a whole other dimension to the puzzle, but for all intents and purposes, Obama had split citizenship, which made/makes him ineligible to be our PRESIDENT.


292 posted on 08/27/2009 6:33:39 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: Technical Editor
Please explain to me how a dual national (as Hussein is, not even debated) at birth qualifies as NATURAL BORN? Read Paragraph 4 at the US State Dept. site located here states "...dual nationals owe allegiance to both the United States and the foreign country. They are required to obey the laws of both countries. Either country has the right to enforce its laws, particularly if the person later travels there..."

This brings us right back to ORIGINAL INTENT. Does you honestly believe that the Founding Fathers would in any way risk the election of a president of their new Republic who had allegiances and loyalties to England? A Revolution had just been won, and the King lost!

The founding Fathers knew full well the meaning of Natural Born Citizen, and Vattel's Law of Nations specifically outlined the definition, of which Benjamin Franklin concurred: Born on US Soil to two US citizen parents.
293 posted on 08/27/2009 6:59:35 PM PDT by thecraw (Christian by choice, American by the grace of God.)
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To: Technical Editor
Produce the name of one legal scholar that believes that. Just one?

Chief Justice John Jay, Chief Justice John Marshall, Chief Justice Morrison Waite, and the father of the 14th Amendment, John Bingham, to name a few.

I honestly doubt you'll find any Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the eighteenth, nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, who would agree with your loose interpretation of a very specific, legal term of art in the Constitution, since every pertinent Supreme Court decision from that era, was within the understanding found in Vattel's The Law Of Nations.

Matter of fact, when pressed, to this day there appear to be no Justices, nor any Congressmen, willing to go on record, and point blank agree with your interpretation, Technical Writer. Witness the truly bizarre Sense of the Senate Resolution, SR 511, which states that John McCain was born of citizen parents, and on U.S. soil.

You'd have us believe that this was all just some odd coincidence, I suppose?

294 posted on 08/27/2009 7:21:18 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: bgill; astounded

“I suspect he put that on his page for kicks.”

Yes, he did ... and I fell for it!


295 posted on 08/27/2009 9:55:16 PM PDT by EDINVA (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul -- G. B. Shaw)
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To: Technical Editor

“Can you actually read English? He says “foreigners,” not “children of foreigners.”

Honestly, FR people are getting less intelligent every day.”

OK. Now let’s give YOUR dumb ass a quick little IQ test. Did you ever stop to consider that amongst the “Foreigners” that Jay was referring to were the PARENTS AND THEIR ASSOCIATES. And that the reasoning was to minimize the possibility of alien ideas transmitted thru their children by ensuring that the PARENTS were vetted by US citizenship???

I guess not. You’re too busy trying to get Hussein, the lying Marxist basturd of a usurper off the hook.


296 posted on 08/27/2009 10:07:57 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: bgill
Bookmarked as "Non-Sequintur admitted Natural Born = Both Parents Citizens."

Insert in there somewhere that I didn't say that was required in all cases. Not that accuracy has ever been a Birther strong suit.

297 posted on 08/28/2009 4:13:47 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: bgill
McCain was born of two US citizens on land that was under US jurisdiction

But not U.S. territory, and at the risk of repeating myself that is one of the requirements of the Birther definition of natural-born citizen - born of two U.S. citizens in U.S. territory. By that definition, McCain isn't a natural-born citizen. By the laws in place at the time, he is. And that's good enough for me.

But again, he isn't POTUS. If he were, there would probably be discussion on it.

And if he were the same people claiming Obama isn't a natural-born citizen would be up there saying McCain was. And the Democrats would be the Birthers and we'd be laughing at them.

As you are aware, the Senate resolution committee that agreed to the two parental citizenship included Hussein himself.

Again, a non-binding resolution.

If he could agree to that, he knows he is a fraud.

How so? How does anything in SR511 remotely relate to Obama's circumstances?

298 posted on 08/28/2009 4:19:55 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
It was a non-binding resolution, nothing like those things issued by a court of law.

Where did it say: "Nonbinding Senate Resolution 511"??? Are you saying that the Senate that voted to accept Obama's electoral votes does not know what is meant by the term "natural born citizen"???. Then I guess their acceptance of his electoral votes was likewise non-binding.

It doesn't say he was born on U.S. territory, but on a U.S. military base. And there is some question as to whether that is correct of if he was, in fact, born in a hospital in Colon.

I guess to settle that question the Senate asked to take a look at his birth certificate and he showed it to them without hesitation, or they wouldn't have put that in the resolution, would they??? Either way, birth on a military base AND of two American citizens was essential to the Senate definition of "natural born citizen". Does Obama meet those qualifications???

Did the Senate see Obama's birth certificate??? Did they know that both his parents were not citizens??? Where's Obama's Senate Resolution 511 -- binding or non-binding???

299 posted on 08/28/2009 5:50:49 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip
Where did it say: "Nonbinding Senate Resolution 511"??? Are you saying that the Senate that voted to accept Obama's electoral votes does not know what is meant by the term "natural born citizen"???. Then I guess their acceptance of his electoral votes was likewise non-binding.

It's non-binding because it was not sent to the President to be signed into law. And the reason why it was never intended to be signed into law is because it deals with a matter that the Senate has no jurisdiction over. The Senate could not declare John McCain a natural-born citizen unless the law first said he was. Anymore than they could declare he was not a natural-born citizen if the law said he was.

I guess to settle that question the Senate asked to take a look at his birth certificate and he showed it to them without hesitation, or they wouldn't have put that in the resolution, would they???

Can you point out just where that non-binding resolution refers to McCain's birth certificate? Or any other documentation?

300 posted on 08/28/2009 1:16:08 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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