Technically, there isn’t a law that defines natural born citizenship. This is what the Supreme Court said in at least two cases. The definition is extraconstitutional.
What Obama lacks is proof of birth in Hawaii. His birth appears to have been registered in Hawaii, but it was either registered as out-of-state, en route or unattended. In all three circumstances, there’s no solid evidence to confirm where he was born and his real Hawaiian birth certificate exposes this fact. Rather than trying to address that deficiency and the obvious questions that would have threatened his viability as a presidential candidate, he had the COLB doctored, and perhaps the birth announcements were created to back up the appearance of a local birth.
Technically, there isn’t a law that defines natural born citizenship. This is what the Supreme Court said in at least two cases. The definition is extraconstitutional.
What Obama lacks is proof of birth in Hawaii. His birth appears to have been registered in Hawaii, but it was either registered as out-of-state, en route or unattended. In all three circumstances, there’s no solid evidence to confirm where he was born and his real Hawaiian birth certificate exposes this fact. Rather than trying to address that deficiency and the obvious questions that would have threatened his viability as a presidential candidate, he had the COLB doctored, and perhaps the birth announcements were created to back up the appearance of a local birth.
“The state of Hawaii has said that the President was born there. That’s good enough for me.”—John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Represenatives.
“A spurious claim questioning the President’s constitutional legitimacy may be protected by the First Amendment, but a Court’s placement of its imprimatur upon a claim that is so lacking in factual support that it is frivolous would undoubtedly disserve the public interest.”—US District Court Judge Clay R. Land