Posted on 04/13/2011 9:17:46 AM PDT by Windflier
Just heard WBAP morning host, Mark Davis, say that only one US citizen parent is required for a person to be a Natural Born Citizen.
That is just blatant misinformation, and Mark needs to be called on it.
He went on to give the rest of his weird definition, but I was already so angry, I couldn't hear him. I went looking for a link to send him email, so that I could correct him.
Here's a link to his show, if any of you feel the urge to do so: http://www.wbap.com/showdj.asp?DJID=1397
I can’t get the email link to work for me. Perhaps one of you can get through to this numb skull.
I just heard that as well. His e-mail is: mdavis@airmail.net.
Isn’t he the guy who co-hosted for Rush a few months back and had everyone turning off the radio in anger and disgust?
Actually, I think that the right answer depends upon the year that you are talking about. The laws were changed (within BHO’s lifetime).
In Mrs. Avandono’s 5th grade Civics course we were taught that one needed 2 U.S. citizen parents to qualify for President.
Now, whether that was her opinion or was in the material, I can’t say. But I do remember that to this day, as stated in my tagline.
Make that guest hosted. Sheesh.
I said yesterday that this was going to be their new talking point. You can plan on hearing this all over now.
One and the same.
The guy is king of the idiots.
I made this comment on another thread - thought you would appreciate it;)
“The irony of this debacle must surely be:
All descendants of slaves (both parents) are eligible for election to POTUS, while children of European ancestry are only eligible if one or both parents are native born and/or naturalized at the time of birth on US soil.
Sad that the first ‘black’ POTUS was not such a man.”
sod
Statute law cannot overrule the Constitution. All statute laws are supposed to 'ride on' the Constitution, and align with it. If a law does not, it's considered to be un-constitutional, and can be struck down on those grounds.
The definition of the Natural Born Citizen requirement in the US Constitution has never been definitively ruled on by the Supreme Court, though they have come close on a few occasions.
Thanks for the email addy. I’m going to give Mark a piece of my mind.
Can’t listen to him. He’s so full of himself.
I don’t understand how Rush has him on
He has guest hosted for Rush in the past. His radio show plays daily in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
He claims to be a conservative but upon closer scrutiny he leans center to center-left on most issues. I can’t stand listening to him personally. No idea why Rush allows a RINO like him to guest host.
Well, we Freepers have an arsenal of data to counter that misinformation. I suggest we all spread it far and wide.
The fact is, he may be right. The term “natural born citizen” is not defined in the constitution so it has been up to definition by the courts ever since. Under current law, if a child is born abroad or domestically to at least one American parent, and the parents are legally married, and if the child is declared at birth to be an American citizen, and have not declared allegiance to any foreign power, that child is a natural born citizen.
In situations where only one parent is a United States citizen, he or she must have lived in the United States for at least five years at some point before the child’s birth as a full American citizen, and at least two of these five years must have occurred after the parent’s 14th birthday. In the case of a child born to an American mother, the child is usually considered a natural born citizen, whether or not the mother is married. However, if an American father is involved in a relationship with a foreign woman and the couple is not married, the father may need to fight for the child’s right to citizenship.
Mrs. Avandono obviously taught school in the days before the leftist NEA took over. She had it entirely right.
I know these things because 2 of my 4 children were born in Japan to me and a Japanese mother. We registered their birth as American citizens immediately and they received U.S. passports. We specifically asked the legal counsel of the US embassy in Tokyo and he informed us of the pertinent laws and precedent.
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