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To: little jeremiah; jcsjcm
And the beauty of it is, even Obama's own "fact check" website (and again I use the term loosely) does not dispute his historic dual citizenship. I'm going to quote this and put a link to the "fact check" website just in case they "correct" their facts and it disappears -- I have a PDF as well.

In other words, at the time of his birth, Barack Obama Jr. was both a U.S. citizen (by virtue of being born in Hawaii) and a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies (or the UKC) by virtue of being born to a father who was a citizen of the UKC.

Dual citizenship precludes natural-born citizenship. Allowing a foreign citizenship to expire after the fact, or renouncing a foreign citizenship after the fact, does not and cannot instate a natural-born status.

The case is clear and obvious. Obama is not eligible. The trick was to get through the masses of red-tape as well as legislative and judicial activism to get the facts on the table! Unless the SCOTUS is prepared to throw the Constitution out the window, the end result is (or at least, should be) clear.
315 posted on 11/21/2008 8:54:52 AM PST by so_real
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To: so_real
Yep. To re-iterate my blatherings from before regarding Obama's in-eligibility:

...go to http://fightthesmears.com, and check it out (no need for Obots to change or remove the webpage -- it's been screenshot, archived and printed [we're wise to Obot tricks]):

“When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children.

Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982.”

And here's a nugget of wisdom from Vol 7 of the Foreign Affairs Manual on Dual or Multiple Nationality

U.S. nationals and citizens may possess dual or multiple nationality and owe allegiance to one or several foreign states. They may even have identified themselves more closely with the foreign state than with the United States, thereby calling into question the propriety of extending protection to them. Since each country establishes its own law of nationality, dual nationality cannot be eliminated, may result in confusion, and could complicate the ability of the U.S. Government to protect its nationals/citizens.

Even if he didn't "swear an oath of alliance to Kenya," Obama still had foreign citizen rights with England/Kenya until 1982 -- dual citizenship and divided loyalties to the US. That's why the POTUS is the ONLY office that has that requirement -- Natural Born Citizen.

I'm HIGHLY confident the SCOTUS will view it this way too in a CONSTITUTIONAL Context -- previous SCOTUS rulings and other laws written will have very little impact in their thoughts on how to apply Natural Born Citizen Constitutional requirements for the POTUS.

340 posted on 11/21/2008 10:30:03 AM PST by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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