[LadyDoc]

Obama’s father was a visiting student, not an immigrant.

However, Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal’s parents were immigrants.

And many immigrants are Republicans because they support hard work and religious values: or rather they would be if bigots like this weren’t associated with the Republican party.

[OddLane]

1. He came here on a student visa. That doesn't mean he wouldn't have stayed in the United States if he hadn't bombed out of Harvard. In fact, all evidence is that he would have tried to remain here like the rest of Obama's extended family. There is also something called Adjustment of Status, which you would have known if you had taken the trouble of actually reading the article before posting your uninformed snark.

2. I don't "associate myself the Republican Party" precisely because people like you, Jeb Bush, Karl Rove, and their acolytes have turned it the mindless echo chamber that has given us this debacle while ensuring that the electorate thinks John McCain and Rick Perry are exemplars of contemporary conservatism.

3. If you think that a nitwit on a message board repeating ad hominems that I've seen repeated a thousand times before is going to deter me from analyzing an issue that I-unlike you-actually know something about, you're mistaken.