I also support any legal action that will force the Supreme Court to define the term. Providing interpretation of the meaning of ambiguous terms in the Constitution is exactly the role the Supremes should play.
If they were to rule that you are correct, which I think highly unlikely, it would be extremely interesting to see how Congress would react to an admittedly unqualified president in office, in obvious violation of the Constitution.
BTW, I’d also be fine with an amendment that would clarify the situation by making naturalized citizens eligible to be president, after perhaps 20 or 25 years as a citizen. It seems perfectly clear to me that there are numerous indisputably “natural born citizens” who are anti-American, and many naturalized citizens who are patriots.
Absolutely true, and completely beside the point.
if an amendment were offered and ratified, I would have absolutely no qualms bout opening elgibility to Native-Born, Naturalized, or Dual Citizens.
Amendment first. in re: interpretation of the meaning of ambiguous terms
(1) These terms were perhaps vague in terms of asceraining the qualification, but not all that "ambiguous" until turned into a loophole by Team Obama and a complaisant Congress. I theorize that fear of "urban unrest" was the driving factor.
(2) I definitely would not place Mr. Obama on the "Patriot" team, as his policies seem deliberately designed to weaken the USA. He is NOT well-intentioned, rather he seems dead set on creating chaos.
Your point of view may sadly yet carry the day, because as the Writ of Quo Warranto process winds on, he will soon have a SCOTUS composed of something like Lula, Morales, Chavez. Sotomayor, and Raoul Castro, with Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas probably starring on "Survivor." IOW, a court that would sanction marriage bewteen Lassie, RinTinTin, Hans the Wonder Horse, and a utility homo yet to be named, will do anything Obama wants.
But as modern people say, "Why so negative?" And they are correct. What we need now is to stop belaboring the obvious and motivate the other party to shape up and ship out the most preposterous President in American history in 2012, and in the meantime to come up with a Program, a Plan, A Leader, and Some Clue as how to stymie this ruinous regime. Despite all the hoopla on this site and elsewhere about the coming "GOP Takeover" in 2010, I see no evidence of any of that. Yet. But why so negative? There's a whole three and half months to the elections!
In re "Our difference of opinion" on who's a Natural Born Citizen" and who ain't: The VFW in Livermore Falls could make a fortune because if I am wrong, I am buying. And I hope you ain't one of those fellows who believes that the child of illegal aliens is also a "Natural Born Citizen." Although I will not deny that it is a popular theory ... which tends to make me weep uncontrollably.