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To: real_patriotic_american

A dual citizen has to choose which citizenship he will claim when he comes of age.

Thus its important, I think, what passport he used to travel to Pakistan, and its important if he attended college claiming to be a foreign student.

He apparently didn’t have a US passport until he was in congress, which means he traveled as an Indonesian citizen. That, in my opinion, cinches that.

And if he claimed to be a foreign student when he attended college, that again cinches that. Someone who has dual citizenship as a child has to choose when he becomes an adult. Having chosen to be other than a US citizen, he can’t come back later and run for president as a natural-born citizen.

This is quite separate from the question of “where” he was born.

The fact that all records that would shed light are off-limits tells anyone paying attention that he has reason not to show them.


19 posted on 07/21/2009 3:54:01 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron
He apparently didn’t have a US passport until he was in congress, which means he traveled as an Indonesian citizen.

And how do you know that?

Someone who has dual citizenship as a child has to choose when he becomes an adult. Having chosen to be other than a US citizen, he can’t come back later and run for president as a natural-born citizen.

Not according to U.S. law. Other countries may require dual citizens to make a choice - Kenya, for example - but the U.S. does not.

29 posted on 07/21/2009 3:57:45 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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"...He apparently didn’t have a US passport until he was in congress..."

How did he get the passport? Use his BC and forget to tell about all the details in between?

44 posted on 07/21/2009 4:08:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: marron

I agree! Also, regardless, he’s not eligible because his father simply was a Kenyan citizen (British colony).

You wrote- “.... He apparently didn’t have a US passport until he was in congress, which means he traveled as an Indonesian citizen. That, in my opinion, cinches that.”


102 posted on 07/21/2009 4:44:22 PM PDT by real_patriotic_american
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