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To: DiogenesLamp
So now you are pulling out "the founders were RACISTS!!!!" card? The objection up till now was that Barack did not have an American Father, and was therefore not a natural born citizen. Last I checked, Americans were not required to be a specific race, so as race is immaterial to the point of a foreign father, your point is an intentional mis-characterization of your opposition.
In other words, a sleazy ad hominem.

Uh, I didn't say anything about race. "Parentage" covers "Barack did not have an American Father."

210 posted on 03/15/2013 12:08:37 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
Uh, I didn't say anything about race. "Parentage" covers "Barack did not have an American Father."

Now you are going to try to walk back your insinuation? Let us examine what you said in detail.

The Framers may well have been horrified that a man of Barack Obama's or Ted Cruz's parentage could become president. Unfortunately for you, that doesn't prove they forbade it.

If the founders believed as you claim, that Foreign parentage is inconsequential, why would they be in horror of it?

By suggesting that they were in horror of it, you are very deliberately implying a racial component, not a foreign one. From your own claimed understanding of the Founder's intention, there is nothing objectionable to the founders about Foreign Parentage.

You are caught.

212 posted on 03/15/2013 12:21:05 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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