Posted on 06/26/2011 2:37:43 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Half of Americans would like to see Congress investigate Barack Obama's eligibility for the presidency and nearly that many believe the definition of the constitutional term "natural born citizen" means both parents must be U.S. citizens, according to a new scientific poll.
"There's no marginalizing those who want this matter investigated by Congress," said Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies, who conducted the WND/Wenzel Poll telephone survey June 16-19. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.85 points.
"Even among Democrats, more than one in four – 28 percent – said they now want an inquiry, as do 43 percent of independents and 77 percent of Republicans. Interestingly, men are much more skeptical than are women about the question of eligibility – only 42 percent of men said they think Obama proved his eligibility by releasing the electronic birth certificate, compared to 59 percent of women."
The poll indicated 43.5 percent of Americans believe that a Hawaii birth would make no difference in Obama's eligibility, as the Constitution requires both parents of a U.S. president to have been U.S. citizens – and Obama's father was not a citizen.
The figure included 56.9 percent of the GOP, 40.2 percent of independents and 32.9 percent of Democrats.
The eligibility saga, as Wenzel noted, has taken on a life of its own. It began with questions about Obama's birth place and parentage before his election. At that time, he released a computer image of a "Certification of Live Birth" from Hawaii and insisted it was original and the only document available.
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This is not a text book from the 1950s 1960s or early 1970s. The author died in 1901. It is not a civics class text book. I don’t have a Kindle to read it with.
A little better than your last attempt, but it is from 1920; it is definately not a text book that would have been used while I was in school.
You have improved a little each time. The first book was published in the 1800s and was not actually a textbook. The second book was published in the 1920s, the third book was published in the 1930s. I said that I had been unable to find any of the civics text books from when I went to school. You said that there were “truckloads” of them on Amazon. You haven't found even one textbook from the 1950s, 60s or early 1970s. I took you at your word and said that you must be much better at searching Amazon than I am. Actually the examples you have provided to back up your claim of “truckloads” are pretty pathetic. In fact if that is the best you can do I would say that your claim is an embarrassing exaggeration. I was taught in school that a natural born citizen was a person born in this country with two citizen parents. A lot of others remember being taught the same thing. Why can't you find some textbooks from the time period that we went to school and prove us all wrong?
OK, I downloaded the Kindle application. I did a search “Natural Born” there are no matches at all in this book that was published in 1890.
I missed this one at first. Once again this is a book from the 1930s and not applicable to our argument which is about you ridiculing me about what I was taught in school. And it is also about you insisting that there are “truckloads” of Civics Textbooks from the time period when I and others here went to school. So far you have wasted all of our time with irrelevant examples.
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