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To: Windflier
He would need to have been born to two US citizen parents on US soil to meet the definition.

Oh, so dependents of servicemen born in foreign hospitals don't qualify??? Does John McCain being born in the Panama Canal Zone qualify?

Now then, in the case of The Won, the official narrative is that he was born to Stanley Durham and BHO (Senior)-- in Hawaii. But BHO (Senior) was not a citizen at that time. Therefore, that would be a prima facie case that The Won is not constitutionally qualified to be President under your definition. Yet Mrs. Clinton's campaign refused to try to make this case. And...it would mean that the Birth Certificate would be irrelevant.

Here's one for you fantatics on this: What if you don't know who the father is? Suppose a U.S. Citizen gives birth on U.S. soil-- but doesn't know the citizenship of the child's father? Does the Consitution forbid a bastard of unknown progeny to become President?

83 posted on 04/13/2011 11:11:59 AM PDT by Lysandru
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To: Lysandru

plenty of bastards have become US Presidents


84 posted on 04/13/2011 11:17:06 AM PDT by 47samurai (The last real conservative)
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To: Lysandru
"He would need to have been born to two US citizen parents on US soil to meet the definition."

Oh, so dependents of servicemen born in foreign hospitals don't qualify?

That's correct. In fact, two of my brothers were born under that exact scenario. They're not Natural Born Citizens, although I and the rest of my siblings are, because we were born on US soil.

You're also reading the case of Obama ineligibility correctly. He's not a Natural Born Citizen because his father was a subject of Kenya at Obama's birth.

It doesn't matter if Zero was born in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House. He's an illegal usurper, under the Framers' understanding of the NBC requirement.

96 posted on 04/13/2011 11:42:50 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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