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To: DiogenesLamp
I rather liked this comment...

Protecting Obama: Congressional Research Service Releases Error and Disinformation Ridden Report on Natural Born Citizen Requirement
(Maskell writes, “There is no provision in the Constitution and no controlling American case law to support a contention that the citizenship of one’s parents governs the eligibility of a native born U.S. citizen to be President.” Two sentences later he states, “…the eligibility of native born U.S. citizens has been settled law for more than a century…” If there is no controlling case law, how can the issue have been settled law for more than a century?)

80 posted on 11/30/2011 3:17:13 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: David
This is an excellant (sic) scholarly analysis of the Natural Born Citizen topic...

See "emphasis added" above in #80.
I guess we differ on what we each consider "excellent".

82 posted on 11/30/2011 3:21:50 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
Protecting Obama: Congressional Research Service Releases Error and Disinformation Ridden Report on Natural Born Citizen Requirement (Maskell writes, “There is no provision in the Constitution and no controlling American case law to support a contention that the citizenship of one’s parents governs the eligibility of a native born U.S. citizen to be President.” Two sentences later he states, “…the eligibility of native born U.S. citizens has been settled law for more than a century…” If there is no controlling case law, how can the issue have been settled law for more than a century?)

Ha! That's good. :) About the sort of logic you expect from these people who argue "anchor babies" are "natural born citizens."

It is my opinion, regardless of what any court decides, up to and including the supreme court, that we need to MAKE the Citizen Parent requirement the DEFACTO definition. If we have to do it legislatively, or if we have to do it through amendment, we need to ram that down those bastards throats and shut up them and this loophole forever.

To reach that end, the first thing we need to do is ridicule and shout down all these troublemakers, and thereafter continue educating the public.

86 posted on 11/30/2011 3:40:37 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus sequitur Patrem)
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