Must restock my popcorn supply! We will be watching this unfold with fascination in our house.
Willard is clearing the decks for Trump's and Arpaio's onslaught against Barry's BC. Now Barry's team can't say "Where's Willard's BC?"
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.
Just wanted to add that it’s very funny that Romney releases the same day that the Obama campaign has a meltdown demanding that Romney disavow Trump for being a birther. This is like a direct slap in the face to Obama.
What I find fascinating is Trump’s going out and making all this birther noise again at the precise same time that Romney is revealing that he presumably has dual citizenship eligibility.
The narrative may be that Trump can’t be controlled, but this sure makes it look like he can be coordinated.
If the intent of the founding fathers was to insure a candidates birth-allegiance *only* to the US, then the commonly held definition at the time (per Vatel)of “Native born” was *reasonably* defined as “Born on sovereign soil of two citizen parents.” Given that very simple, straight forward definition, it seems to me that the parents aren’t required to be “native born” themselves, just US citizens (of whatever class) at the time of the candidate’s birth.
So the questions to be asked about Romney’s birth qualifications is:
Were Romney’s parents both US citizens of any class at the time of his birth, regardless of their origins?
Was Romney born on sovereign US soil?