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To: rogue yam

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.


12 posted on 07/30/2010 9:34:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try. ~Master Yoda)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

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...

UNITED STATES V. WONG KIM ARK, 169 U. S. 649 (1898)

16 posted on 07/30/2010 9:41:26 AM PDT by r9etb
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