Must restock my popcorn supply! We will be watching this unfold with fascination in our house.
Posted on 05/29/2012 5:46:12 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.
Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney's birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.
His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico.
So on a day when real estate and media mogul Donald Trump was trying to help Mitt Romney by stirring up a new round of questions about whether Democratic President Barack Obama was born in the United States, Romney's own birth record became a reminder that in the 1968 presidential campaign, his father had faced his own "birther" controversy.
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From a number of sources Romney has between 30 and 100 second and third cousins in Mexico.
Pacific Islander is still used for native Hawaiians.
I think Mitt’s dad was an American citizen. Just born in Mexico. Mitt is still an NBC.
Where are the layers? ;-)
So George Romney did not move to Mexico and George’s father did not renounce his US citizenship? Just trying to get facts straight as all I know is what I read on FR~!
George was born in Mexico and lived there for about the first three years of his life. His parents were American Citizens, and I’ve never seen any evidence that they ever renounced their citizenship or became citizens of Mexico.
Romney’s father wasn’t, Mitt was born on US soil. His father wouldn’t be qualified, but Mitt is. He was born on US soil to citizen parents.
I don’t see the word “abstract” there at all.
But did his father become a naturalized citizen of the United States?
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so... GRomney was born in mexico to US parents?
yes, a US citizen... but GRomney was not a NBC
Mitt, therefore, is a NBC
Anyone have a recent vital record issued by HI that this test could be performed on? Inquiring minds want to know.
Great minds, and all that. ;)
who’s father?
1.Obama's younger half-sister was born in Indonesia to an Indonesian citizen, Soetoro.
2. Was Obama's mother still an American citizen at the time of the birth?
3. If Obama's mother was still a United States citizen when her daughter was born in Indonesia, did it mean that the daughter was automatically an American citizen, or did Obama's mother have to go to the American embassy in Indonesia to fill out special papers to obtain American citizenship for her daughter?
4. My point is this: If George Romney, Mitt's father, was born in Mexico to two American citizens, then I would think that George was automatically an American citizen at the time of his birth in Mexico. However, I don't understand how the Natural Born requirement applies to George.
5. Does anyone know if George's parents gave up their American citizenship when they moved to Mexico, or did they still retain their American citizenship while living in Mexico like Obama's mother may have retained her American citizenship while living with her Indonesian husband in Indonesia?
6. George's parents obviously returned to the United States, because I don't see any evidence that they had any trouble whatsoever in entering the country, so I don't think that they had to sneak into the country because they may have given up their American citizenship when they left the United States earlier and settled in Mexico.
7. EXAMPLE: Tim Tebow, the famous National Football League young quarterback with the New York Jets:
a. He was born in the Philippines to two American citizens in the Philippines doing missionary work.
b. Could Tebow run for President?
c. TEBOW's CHILD: If Tebow gets married to an American citizen and they have a child that is born in the United States, could the child run for President, even though Tebow was born in the Philippines? I would think so, because, in my opinion, the child would have been born in the United States to two American citizens.
8. As I compare the Tebow situation to the Mitt Romney situation, I thought about this: If Mitt Romney's father, George, was born in Mexico to parents who were still United States citizens, and he, George, later had a son, Mitt, who was born in the United States to a mother who was born an American citizen, then I don't see how Mitt should have any problems meeting the Natural Born requirement.
9. That is, if Tebow's child would have no problem meeting the Natural Born requirement, then I don't see why Mitt Romney would have any trouble meeting the Natural Born requirement.
Thanks for mapping out each of these points.
One could also check census records prior to Mitt’s birth to see if George declared himself to be a U.S. citizen, such as in 1940 or 1930.
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