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?
if you're looking for an argument go elsewhere...
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KellynLA
Try this link:
A good source of info. Mothers citizenship in this case DOES NOT transfer citizenship to O’bone-head. The laws in place in Hawaii mandated she had to have reached the age of majority & lived in the state for 5 years. She could not qualify in either case.
According to Mr. Collins’ article, people born in the U.S. who’s father is not a U.S. citizen are not a citizen of any kind, much less a natural-born citizen. That position was repudiated by the Supreme Court in the Ark decision.
I suppose that you could argue that cesarean born is not natural born or that an artificial insemination or in-vitro baby would not be “natural”.
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Presumably all of our citizenships rely on law. Otherwise how do we know what it takes?
Then how do we know what a natural-born citizen is? What do we base it on?
And exactly how did Justice Roberts know full well Obama's place of birth? What was he privy to that the rest of the nation wasn't? Anyway, it isn't the Supreme Court's job to be a complainent about anyone's "natural born citizenship". It is their job to either accept and rule on, or deny the appeal if it becomes an issue that reaches their Court through the appeals process.
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Anyone who argues that the plaintiffs here haven’t proven their case is as badly in error as those who are convinced that he is ineligible.
Both you Obots and birthers are arguing from ignorance—a formal logical fallacy.
The question framed might be, how could this dispute be resolved? And I think the answer is self evident.
In any event, if Barry doesn’t cough it up I’ll spell anyone riding him into the ground because my good friend Quasimodo told me he had a hunch that 0’s lying.
The Constitution states that if you're born in the USA you're a citizen. It doesn't get any more "natural" than that, and has nothing to do with parental citizenship.
The laws in place in Hawaii mandated
The laws in place in Hawaii do not override the Constitution, which states "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States". You're born here, you're a citizen - PERIOD.
As am I. Where did your understanding of that requirement come from?
to be a natural born citizen one must be born on the soil of parents who were themselves citizens
“If Obama’s father was a Kenyan then how could Hussein be eligible to be POTUS?”
I’m not sure it matters, some of our earlier presidents were born to parents who weren’t Americans, because the United States of America did not yet exist, so it seems to me that natural born citizenship is dependent on birth in the United States and not on the citizenship of the parents. For instance, Andrew Jackson’s parents immigrated from Northern Ireland in 1765, and in 1767, his father (Andrew Jackson Sr.) died 3 weeks before Andrew was born in South Carolina. I don’t know if Jackson’s father was officially a citizen yet of the colony of South Carolina at the time of his death, but would it even matter?
As I understand all but Chester Arthur’s father. And that was hidden until Chester left office.
I think the argument can be made that having one parent, usually the father, as a citizen of another country imparts the child dual citizenship and the question arises as to allegiance.
The Constitution doesn’t say that. It says nothing of parental requirements upon citizenship of a child born here.
Can anyone say “retarded” today...especially today when the Liar of the Senate died?
Well then my status is in doubt! I wuz hatched. :-)
Why should an accident of birth cause questions of allegiance? Chester Arthur was born, lived his whole life, and died in the U.S. Why should we believe that he had any allegiance to a country he never lived in? Should we deny Jews the right to run for the presidency by assuming that they have an allegiance to Israel as well as the U.S.?
Doesn't appear so. Last time I checked, Obama was President.
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