It's not aerospace engineering, naturalized according to the dead white guys means being born of a parent or parents who are official United States citizens. If Obama was born outside of the States, say Kenya, his mom was a couple on months shy of being an official citizen of the United States according to the laws at that time. I guess the powers that be at that time were too hard on Marxist/atheistic/up to 20 year old whores who traveled abroad and got knocked up by foreign polygamists.
Not saying this happened but several people are buying this. If Obama would be more forthcoming and Bush's Executive Branch would be more open about eligibility (Bush is in charge of investigating/executing the law and upholding the Constitution) this whole situation would be clearer.
Penn mom is up to speed, she just enjoys acting obtuse and repeating the same inquiries over and over, ad nauseum.
Nope. The Executive has no role in this. There's no law on the books regarding the Executive investigating/verifying candidates -- and if there were, it would be a political nightmare. You could argue, as Donofrio does, that it should be the responsibility of the state SOS's, but they've punted on the issue. So, now it's the province of the Supreme Court in its role of interpreting the Constitution -- if they choose to get involved.
The "natural born" question has never been clarified. The Constitution is vague on the issue, and this is the first modern-day election in which a winner of the general election (but not, as yet, the electoral vote) triggers the question.We've never had a winner with a foreign, non-citizen father.
Goldwater-Kennedy was the last election in which this issue was raised, since Goldwater was born in Arizona while it was still a territory. There were plenty of lawsuits filed, pre-election, that were shot down for lack of standing (as in this election), but since he didn't win, after the general election no one raised the issue, and it was never resolved.