Obie apoligist???? He is not a NBC....... sorry buddy... he is NOT a natural born citizen.
Never call me that. That is nothing less than a personal insult.
Not agreeing with the contention that Obama was not born in Hawaii, does not make me a liberal.
Not agreeing with a possible definition of Natural Born Citizen, that may or may not have been used by Vattel, depending on which translation you consult, does not make me a liberal. Seeing as the definition by Blackstone, which is from the Common Law our Constitution is based on, is the correct definition and the one the founders would have meant.
I'm a strict constructionist of the Constitution. The Constitution means what it says even if I don't like the result.
Nobody has proved Obama was not born in Hawaii. To the contrary he has two hard copies of his Hawaiian birth certificate, and a letter from the State of Hawaii authenticating them. Unless you have positive proof that those hard copies are forgeries. Those copies will trump any other proof I have seen offered.
The only body capable of defining "natural born citizen" for presidential eligibility is the Congress, not Article III courts created by the Congress. The Congress did not address the issue in January 2009. Making the point moot until January 2013. Until then, Blackstone's definition is the one rooted in the Common Law, not Vattel's possible definition which is foreign to our laws.