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To: Brrrski; Sto Zvirat
... I’ll tell you now, I’m not going to agree politically with many of you, in fact, I might just take this opportunity to say, concerning thecodont’s post earlier that anyone who goes around saying Hussein this, Hussein that and then follows it up with “(HINT: It’s NOT about skin color or race!)” clearly doesn’t know how much of a dumbass they’re making themselves out to be.

If you don't understand why we would mock someone who we feel is destroying the very founding principles of this country and have to attribute some hidden bigoted motivations to that mocking then you're too wrapped up in your own egoistic view of things to think straight.

That being the case I will skip responding to your other points other than to say that it is egoism to think that there is any personal affront to you that your children would not be eligible to be a president. There are many possible circumstances a person can be born under and it is neither possible nor desirable to accommodate every one of them in order to make each one feel good about themselves.

The natural born citizen requirement was put in the Constitution to protect the whole nation not to give ego strokes to every individual citizen.

96 posted on 05/01/2011 4:27:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye

i’ve got no problem with mocking if that’s what you want to do, only with disingenuousness and hypocrisy.

tbh, i don’t feel any affront if it came about that my children can’t be president, although my personal opinion is that they can. i feel affronted by my country that they can’t be citizens. i was only asking if they could be president to explore the probably fairly unusual case where one or more parents is not american, but the child is a citizen and can be nothing else. surely the test is what the child is, not what their parents are, or the grandparents, or great-grandparents etc.


97 posted on 05/01/2011 5:35:19 PM PDT by Brrrski
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