“I believe Washington and company understood NBC to be pure bred citizen. They did not want foreign influence. We can all agree to that, unless we have an axe to grind for Mr. Obama.”
What we need to agree on is to use what they wrote. They used a legal term, well known and used by the colonies and states in their own state laws concerning citizenship.
That term allows for alien parents, if the baby is born in the US.
Original intent doesn’t give you the right to substitute your ideas for what it actually says in the Constitution. Paying attention to what the states ratified is NOT kissing Obama’s butt, but upholding the Constitution - unless you believe it is a ‘living document’, and that you get to change its meaning by simply wanting it to change.
Law, as intended, when written, is the desired function of the language. No foreign influence on the most powerful office in America was the intention. We must be honest with ourselves that this was the intent. If we cant be honest, there is no point in further debate.
When a child grows to age of 5, and learns the customs of his native country till age 10, he comes to accept the law and customs of his country. The traditions make sense.
As we see with Obama, growing up in Indonesia as an Indonesian citizen, our capitalist system is rubbish to him. Our constitution is garbage to him. This is natural. It is not his fault. It is simply his nature. His roots. He was raised an Indonesian Muslim, and he now commands a Christian Capitalist nation.
Changing our country, fundamentally, is his stated goal. This is natural for a man raised in a foreign country during his most impressionable years. In plain English, “America sucks” and he's going to fix it. So now we have some 20 million unemployed people as he tends to his grand mission of remaking America. Millions of people with broken dreams, lost homes, lost jobs, broken families. But the boy from Indonesia continues his dream, to lead a country and reverse the traditions of that country.
We can explain away the intent, and accept people with foreign citizenship's to lead us, but as Washington knew, they will want to destroy what he started here. Freedom.
Reality has crossed the intent of the constitution. You do win sir. We have that person in the office that is deconstructing the gains of the American Revolution and the birth of freedom, and was born with foreign citizenship, as Washington and John Jay expected. A natural born citizen accepts his fathers country. A foreign citizen has no such burden. He can fundamental change it.