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To: real_patriotic_american

What takes him out of the ball game is the “natural born citizen.” He has loyalties to the US as well as Britain/Kenya.

There will be those who will claim the SCOTUS hasn’t made a determination on “natural born citizen” and whine that good ol’ Chester got by with it so Hussein should get a pass as well. Through the decades, long before Birthers, the accepted definition of “natural born citizen” that took it a step further than “native born” was that both parents be US citizens.


228 posted on 07/21/2009 6:20:09 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: bgill

Thus from “square one,” Obama is NOT a natural born citizen since his father is a Kenyan (then a British colony).


242 posted on 07/21/2009 6:28:11 PM PDT by real_patriotic_american
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To: bgill
the accepted definition of “natural born citizen” that took it a step further than “native born” was that both parents be US citizens.

I'd like to see Barry out of office this minute and anything that accomplishes that is fine with me.

But I like speculating on things so let's just entertain this question to see where the tangent leads. Nothing personal so don't get offended. It's just for discussion.

Hypothetical: a woman- US citizen- gives birth to a baby in a hospital in the USA. They go to fill out the birth certificate for the baby. They ask her 'who was the father?'. Now, in my hypothetical, Jane Doe was a real slut and, LOL, it turns out she had been drunk and did the football team- one of whom was a foreigner. It could be one of like 22 guys and there is a small chance the father could be a foreigner.

What nationality does the baby have? Would the baby be eligible to run for President of the USA? Would we require the baby get a DNA test to prove he/she wasn't the offspring of the foreigner? If the foreigner was the father but the baby never met him would the baby have 'loyalties' to the father's country?

There's a whole can of worms you can get into here and I think these questions are interesting and in a way these questions are relevent to the discussion here.

255 posted on 07/21/2009 6:36:52 PM PDT by Prodigal Son
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