Posted on 06/11/2008 9:15:05 AM PDT by Hal1950
Bloggers are raising questions about Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's qualifications to be U.S. president, because of the secrecy over his birth certificate and the requirement presidents be "natural-born" U.S. citizens.
Jim Geraghty, reporting on the Campaign Spot, cited the "unlikely" but still circulating rumor that Obama was born not within the United States, but elsewhere, possibly Kenya.
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You are correct in all your information.
Here's a cynical view for you:
In my best Clinton fashion I'm playing semantic games here, but the Constitution only says the eligibility to be president, it says nothing about running for president.
I suppose someone with questionable eligibility could run, build up a massive following, then find out he's ineligible, but the mass population forces the Supreme Court to decline to rule on eligibility, citing that if he loses it's a moot point -- come back if he wins. Of course, if he wins, it would be impossible to refuse to seat him.
On the other hand, another candidate with almost the same massive following could challenge the eligibility at a nominating convention and argue that it's in everyone's best interest to avoid the problem in the first place by nominating someone else.
-PJ
Or his real name is “Damien”..
Exactly!
It’s not like someone couldn’t ‘come up’ with one!
I say keep O Bambi talking. (Some Clinton supporters are noticing that he’s picking up her platform and are really angry about it. But as you know, since he’s won the primary this is the traditional ‘move to the center’ we’ve all come to expect.)
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
Only thing I could think of why he would not want his birth certificate to be seen. Rather silly reason though, as a baby can't be held responsible for the religion of his parents.
...Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"
* Anyone born inside the United States
* Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
* Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
* Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
* Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
* A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
I am betting his birth certificate sys he is a muslim...
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
Only thing I could think of why he would not want his birth certificate to be seen. Rather silly reason though, as a baby can’t be held responsible for the religion of his parents.
That’s a stretch. I don’t think that law applied to someone who was born, raised in, and never resided permanently outside the United States, even if she were only 18. Heck if that’s the case then millions of Americans who are 4th or 5th generation, born to mothers under 21, aren’t “natural born” citizens.
Just for grins do you have a similar list on how one can lose their US citizenship, like for instance using a foreign passport and not reaffirming their citizenship.
>>But this is an IMPORTANT question.<<
Its a dumb question.
>>Why does Obama refuse to release his birth records?<<
He’s not refusing.
>>Or a dozen other important records?<<
Which dozen others? Specifically.
>>Was he really born in Hawaii on the date he claims?<<
It would be kinda stupid to lie about that.
>>Was his mother’s marriage actually legal?<<
Don’t know. What color was her hair at the time?
>>Is he an American citizen at all?<<
Yeah, like someone is going to spend millions of dollars and have a team of lawyers go up against someone else that is spending millions of dollars and a team of lawyers that doesn’t even have the most basic qualifications but hoping nobody will find out.
>>Has he even given this information to the proper election authorities?<<
I can see a room full of lawyers that have been planning this for two years snapping their figures and saying “Doh, I knew we forgot something”
>>What is he hiding?<<
His hatred for whitey and all things American.
Hillary is the VP nomination.
Nobama gets elected POTUS but ‘someone’ challenges the authenticity of his presidency based on whether he is legally allowed (citizenship).
Goes to Supreme Court
He gets ruled inelligle and has to resin
Hillary becomes president by default
OK... now back to my cubicle.
Wrong. Even if born in Kenya to an American mother he would be a natural born citizen.
See below:
The 14th Amendment defines citizenship this way: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
But even this does not get specific enough. As usual, the Constitution provides the framework for the law, but it is the law that fills in the gaps.
Currently, Title 8 of the U.S. Code fills in those gaps. Section 1401 defines the following as people who are "citizens of the United States at birth:"
* Anyone born inside the United States
* Any Indian or Eskimo born in the United States, provided being a citizen of the U.S. does not impair the person's status as a citizen of the tribe
* Any one born outside the United States, both of whose parents are citizens of the U.S., as long as one parent has lived in the U.S.
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year and the other parent is a U.S. national
* Any one born in a U.S. possession, if one parent is a citizen and lived in the U.S. for at least one year
* Any one found in the U.S. under the age of five, whose parentage cannot be determined, as long as proof of non-citizenship is not provided by age 21
* Any one born outside the United States, if one parent is an alien and as long as the other parent is a citizen of the U.S. who lived in the U.S. for at least five years (with military and diplomatic service included in this time)
* A final, historical condition: a person born before 5/24/1934 of an alien father and a U.S. citizen mother who has lived in the U.S.
Anyone falling into these categories is considered natural-born, and is eligible to run for President or Vice President. These provisions allow the children of military families to be considered natural-born, for example.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a loser. Birth certificates don't list religion.
But really, let's keep wasting bandwidth on Larry Sinclair, the non-existent "whitey" tape, pictures of Obama riding a bike & this issue.
And then we can all be surprised in November when Obama wins because people were focused on stupid, non-existent issues instead of issues that might actually affect his candidacy.
resign
Since when does a birth certificate have a social security number on it?
Well, he needs but produce a US Birth certificate to make the claims bogus.
So. . .why doesn’t he ?
That possibly may not be true. There is an obscure law that states his mother has to have been 21 at the time when Obama was born if he was born in Kenya. His mother appears to have been 18 at the time.
Wouldn’t the federal agency which oversees elections look into whether or not a candidate met the qualifications to be president?
Yes, with the emphasis on "unreal".
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