I’m one of those “crazy birthers”, but I disagree with some of the article that I skimmed through.
The fact that Obama’s dad wasn’t a citizen doesn’t affect his NBC status. If that were the case, we’d have to go back and dredge up records on the fathers of all Presidential candidates, something we just have never done.
However, Obama’s birthplace very much affects his NBC status. He had to have been born on “U.S. Soil”. This includes / included the Panama Canal Zone (U.S. property at the time of McCain’s birth there), Embassies, and possibly overseas Armed Forces Bases.
The two issues come together to determine Obama’s citizenship status at birth. If he was born in Hawaii, he’s a citizen, and a natural born one, no matter what. If born in Kenya, it appears he wouldn’t have been a citizen due to some funky rules about how long the one citizen parent (Stanley, his mom (oh brother, no wonder he’s such a goof)) had to have not traveled out of the US past her (?) 18th birthday.
What a mess. The biggest part of the mess is that nobody in power in D.C. seems to give a rat’s ass. They’re just part of a statist culture that forgets they work for the U.S. citizens as specified in the Constitution, not the other way around.
All except Chester Arthur had citizen fathers. Arhur was never a Presidential candidate, but became President when the elected President was assasinated. Although it was not known until well after Arthur's death, his father was not a citizen at the time of his birth., although unlike BHO's father his did become naturalized, when he, Chester, was 14.
YOU are very wrong on your facts. The FACT is that Obama’s father was a British colonial subject, and it is a FACT that Obama was also a British subject at birth through his father.
Since Obama did not owe exclusive loyalty to the United States, he was not ‘under its exclusive jurisdiction” and was NOT, as a matter of FACT and LAW, a Natural Born Citizen of the United States at the time of his birth, regardless of its physical location. Since he was not a Natural Born Citizen at birth, he cannot be one now, since it is a status acquired naturally at birth, and at no other time.
I will not comment on McCain’s birth status since the claim is based on a different set of facts and is moot in any case.
If Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a citizen, perhaps, but your continued assertions that his birth on American soil makes him a natural born citizen is wrong, misguided, previously corrected by advice, stubborn, perverse and willful.
You are right about one thing; no one in the US Senate gives a rat’s ass. True. They are far more concerned with their own senatorial egos than they are with an old, faded, ratty looking piece of paper called the US Constitution.