Posted on 07/30/2010 2:16:08 AM PDT by Scanian
Governor Jindahl has the same problem Mr. Obama has: His parents were not American citizens at the time of his birth, therefore his is not a Natural Born Citizen, as required by the Constitution for the presidency.
Although I had high hopes for Governor Jindal he really had a chance for major change in Louisiana but has decided on baby steps instead. He hasn’t been bad but he hasn’t done enough to turn the state around. His economic stimulus has amounted to handing out checks to selected businesses to come to Louisiana.
The only thing that really matters in our Twilight Zone world of today.
Well, it worked for Obama.
Just what I was thinking. Seems like they can’t talk about anyone as a person. They always have to bring up color. And I am so sick and tired of us being called racists.
I’ve said this before and I will say this again. Jindal is not a fiscal conservative and he will be a disappointment if he becomes POTUS.
I also question whether Bobby is an unabashed conservative. He is certainly no Chris Christie. I cannot escape the sense that Bobby is an extremely ambitious and aspiring career politician who will do whatever he thinks he needs to do to advance himself.
I really want to like Bobby and, at times, he is very good, but I think I speak for many in Louisiana when I say that I still have some concerns about him and I definitely do not feel he is ready for the national stage until he has done much more to prove himself here.
There are rumours here that he will resign before serving out his term because he feels he cannot come out looking good if he completes his term. If he does resign, I think it would be a big red flag that my suspicions about him are true.
The Republican’s “Color Problem” is that people of color have been brain washed by the Leftist Democrats.
Dude! Gov. Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1971. He is as eligible to be President as anyone.
Isn’t Romney also in this category?
I’m not questioning his birthplace, but his parents must be American citizens at the time of his birth for him to be a Natural Born Citizen. We’ve been over and over this with the Obama situation. It’s not his possible Kenyan birth that disqualifies him, as much as it’s his purported father, Barack Hussein Obama, Senior, who was never an American.
If his father is actually a Mexican citizen as I’ve read somewhere.
I was thinking Canada
It’s risky, but Jindal or some support group for him should start a court case about his own eligibility. It would get a USSC decision about the definition of NBC and if Jindal lost the case, it would knock Obama out of the box. Maybe worth the risk.
Nope.
A child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution...
What "problem" would that be? As far as I can tell, Obama is currently the President of the United States.
His parents were not American citizens at the time of his birth, therefore his is not a Natural Born Citizen, as required by the Constitution for the presidency.
This birther nonsense has gone nowhere and will continue to go nowhere. Nobody is buying it. Nobody. Birthers have had zero success selling this definition of Natural Born Citizen to anyone outside of the Obama eligibility circus. None. Nada. Zip. Only a trail of dismissed lawsuits to show for their failed efforts.
Bobby Jindal is eligible for the U.S. Presidency.
Ciktizen and Natural Born Citizen are not the same thing.
There are rumours here that he will resign before serving out his term because he feels he cannot come out looking good if he completes his term. If he does resign, I think it would be a big red flag that my suspicions about him are true.
Jindals history indicates he doesn’t stay in one position very long. They come in change and shake things up then move to the next opportunity. The problem I have with that approach is one never gets to see how that person will handle the results of all his changes a few years down the road.
True. However, the relevant jurisprudence, helpfully quoted and linked for you above, shows that Bobby Jindal is a natural born citizen.
The 14th Amendment says only "born" or "naturalized." There is no mystical grey area. If one is a citizen at birth, one is Natural Born.
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