Well this is just my opinion, but... Yes on its face the provision would seem silly: “A drunken and illiterate Topeka-Kansas born hobo pulled up from the train tracks is qualified, but a Finnish-born Rhodes scholar who’s been teaching at Yale for the last 30 years is not.”
My own Italian grandfather was such a Patriot that he cried tears of joy when he saw the first live Telstar transmissions direct from the USA.
But the framers were no fools and so, for me, anyway, the thrust of the issue was mistrust: the local boy’s records are more readily available. Did he come from a reputable family? Are you sure of his patriotism? Check and double-check. Don’t run any useless risks. The requirement, which like all laws can be deconstructed (as I have above)is really a call for close scrutiny.
Morally, I mean in front of God, Obama’s concealment of his university records is far worse. Though it’s all about him, he had nothing to do with his actual birth certificate. But he did have much to do about his school avhievements.
I find it incredibly ironic that in the Age of ethnic studies - and Afro-American studies being N#1 on the list, all the records of a man who reached the world’s most exalted position are kept sealed.
It’s as if Charlie Bird Parker had gone to the Julliard School of Music and the (mostly) white men there kept the tapes of all his riffs and solos under lock and key.
What’s a poor Black student attending an African-American studies class gonna study if the world’s leading African-American has all his records locked up?!
The natural-born stuff of the Constitution places the emphasis on mistrust... and when it comes to politicians, this is GOOD!
Morally, I mean in front of God, Obama’s concealment of his university records is far worse. Though it’s all about him, he had nothing to do with his actual birth certificate. But he did have much to do about his school avhievements.
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Obama went to pakistan in 1982 while in college. At the time you couldn’t get into Pakistan on an American passport. So likely he carried either a Kenyan or an Indonesian passport. The reason he won’t show his school records from either Harvard or Columia is that they likely list his dual nationalities. Since he was recommended to Harvard by a highly placed Saudi—likely his records at Harvard list him as a Moslem.