Full Symposium Sept 08 Mich Law Review on McCain Natural Born / Eligibility!!

Spiro-—Spiro-—Spiro
PLEASE GO READ THE CONCLUSION TO HIS ARTICLE! HE KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH OBAMMY!
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Here is an exerpt from the Spiro article. Note the use of the term ‘hyper-American’ when referencing the military post. It’s all one paragraph...sorry if its tough to read.

There are other permutations. Take, for starters, a twist on the birth circumstances of McCain’s opponent, Barack Obama. If Obama had been born in Nairobi instead of Honolulu—not at all implausible, given his family circumstances— would he be eligible for the presidency? Obama would have been born a U.S. citizen under section 301(g) of the Nationality Act, as the child of an alien and a citizen who was resident in the United States for a period of five years prior to the birth. (Democratic candidate Bill Richardson’s life suggests a similar counterfactual. His parents were living in Mexico City at the time of his mother’s pregnancy, and he spent his early years there, but his father sent his mother to California to deliver him with the intention of securing his citizenship.) The resolution of Obama’s case on those facts would be both more and less straightforward. On the one hand, the constitutional text would pose less of an obstacle; unlike McCain, Obama would have been born a citizen. On the other hand, his birth wouldn’t have been in the hyper-American context of an overseas American military installation, and the refusal to recognize Obama’s eligibility would not risk penalizing military personnel. On balance, Obama’s hypothetical case would probably come out the same way as McCain’s, even at a higher risk of campaign sloganeering (if only by way of highlighting Obama’s cosmopolitan roots). His life story—as with McCain’s, clearly “American” in any sense of the word—would sharply cut in favor of establishing eligibility. And with the McCain episode in the history books, the case for candidates born abroad as U.S. citizens to U.S. citizen parents would be more easily made, insofar as McCain has breached any putative territorial parameter.

“Who knew that the U of Michigan Law Review was published by a bunch of tinfoil-hatted nuts!”

AYE A VERY CENTRAL, HUGE POINT MADE!

YEAH AND WHY WASN’T THIS DONE FOR BAM-BAM?

Yes, we’d be told these are just s bunch of lefty and maybe righty tinfoil-hatted, pointy-headed (funny image though isn’t it) lawyer types feasting on the Tribe & Company SR511 deduction as an excuse for meeting in a nice place at a nice time of year there SO WHY PAY ATTENTION?? It only that some mid-western law students got a chance to get to a forum to see their latest favs. Now go sit down and SHUT UP!

Hope Michelle Malkin and others like her gets to see this.

I still haven’t gone through it unfortunately.

LOL!!! I am beyond baffled as to why there are such different reactions to questions about McCain’s status vs. that of Obama.

If McCain were the one paying teams of lawyers instead of simply releasing the basic documents (and release them he he did, promptly), the media would be in full hyper-hysteria mode. And McCain hasn’t even sealed many?/all? of the records for his entire life! Notice that the propagandists never mention that!

Well Dajjal- wanted to inform I went through your impressive comment / post list (impressive, yes- so many by the single word “obumpa” that were just SO MANY good threds that I can see)...
and did only come up with the two posts from the above organ, one of which I’ve cited in my original post. So I don’t feel too badly. Took me so long here because I kept clicking down so many refs off your “obumpa”s. Keep on!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112733/posts
The Justiciability of Eligibility: May Courts Decide Who Can Be President?
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:31:55 PM • 1 of 9
Dajjal

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112732/posts
Originalism and the Natural Born Citizen Clause
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:31:49 PM • 1 of 8
Dajjal

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