Assuming, of course, that she didn't spend the last few months of her pregnancy on a honeymoon in Kenya. And further assuming that this teenaged girl's actions were driven by as good a grasp of the finer points of immigration, naturalization, and constitutional laws that is at least as good as yours.
If you'll let me assume the conclusion is part of the evidence, I can prove my side of the debate to...
As I said earlier, it is 100% certain that both Barack Obama and John McCain meet the eligibility requirements to be President.
To you. The rest of us still have some lingering questions about the facts of the matter.
“You are misreading the 1952 law imho, there is a residency requirement for the parent, which is more than fully met by the fact that Stanley Ann Dunham lived her whole life in the United States up until the birth of Barack Obama Jr.
Assuming, of course, that she didn’t spend the last few months of her pregnancy on a honeymoon in Kenya.”
No, that wouldn’t change it. The 1952 law snippet is here:
“Sec. 301. [8 U.S.C. 1401] The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
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(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years:”
14 years plus 2 years in the U.S. were sufficiently met by Stanley Ann Dunham even before she met Barack Obama Sr. since she lived in Washington state and Hawaii her whole life. If she was in Kenya a week, a month or even a year, she still would meet the citizenship and residency requirements for Barack Obama to be a natural-born US citizen.
So, no, I am not *assuming* the conclusion, I am concluding based on the *evidence* and the *law*:
- His mother is/was a US citizen who lived in the US her whole life prior to 1961.
- The 1952 law gave children born to such mothers US citizenship at birth.
- Barack Obama would be a natural-born US citizen no matter where he was born. Again, that speculation that she even went overseas is a zero-evidence one, and Obama was born in Hawaii, but even if he was born in Kenya, he would still be a natural-born US citizen.
Thus, there is 100% certainty that Barack Obama meets the eligibility requirements to be President.
QED.
I would further point out that this also precludes the ‘motivation to lie’ factor touted earlier. His passport says Honolulu Hawaii, and if he was really born elsewhere, his mother would have stated as such, as it wouldn’t change anything. Hence, no lies either, and passport saying Honolulu means we can further logically conclude that he was born in Honolulu.