Now, what Spaulding knows - because it has been pointed out to him many times - is that SR511 dealt with children born overseas to American parents. He pretends it means that all NBC require two citizen parents, even tho he knows that was not the subject of SR511. That is dishonest. Nothing in SR511 in any way applied to those born in the USA. Frankly, there is a stronger case for Obama being a natural born citizen than there was for McCain. There has been legal doubt all along concerning those born to US citizens abroad. The confusion caused by the mistranslation of Vattel in 1797 was settled by the WKA decision in the 1890s, but the case for McCain is weaker.
OK, I'll accept your comments with respect to Spaulding as being true, but where are the others?
You said, “It doesn’t help that birthers on this thread have made dishonest statements that they know are dishonest.”
That's birthers plural, so where are the others?
I apologize. I should have written, “It doesn’t help that [a birther] on this thread ha[s] made [a] dishonest statement that [he] know[s] [is] dishonest.”
Mr. Rogers criticism of Spaulding is pretty weak tea. Spaulding’s offense was not phrasing the remark in a way that suited Rogers. I’m sure Spaulding knows that SR511 was limited to the facts of McCain’s birth; and without saying so, those facts do not apply to the circumstances of Obama’s birth. The Senate has yet to say that a child who is a dual citizen at birth, due to citizenship of one or more parent; or location of birth; is also a natural born citizen.