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To: SatinDoll
The requirement to be President is that you be a “natural born” citizen. There are two criteria:

1. Your parents must be U.S. citizens;

2. You must be born within the United States or on U.S. territory

Again, you are making up requirements out of whole cloth. Article II does not mention either of these conditions.

On July 25th, 1787, John Jay wrote to George Washington, then Presiding Officer of the Constitutional Convention:

John Jay came up with the natural-born citizen requirement, but his letter makes no mention of either of the two requirements you have listed above.

The reason for excluding the U.S. born children of foreign nationals is because of split allegiences and that nations, such as Great Britain, claim the children of its citizens as being born British.

Again, until you can show some support, in the Constitution or in Federal statutes, that natural-born means "born in the US to 2 citizens," the conditions you listed above are purely of your own making.

Senator Obama’s father was a British citizen, and Barack Hussein Obama II was registered as a British citizen at birth by his father!

So what? Dual citizenship is legal under US law and is not a bar to the Presidency.

233 posted on 12/01/2008 6:51:04 AM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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To: Citizen Blade

The Supreme Court appears to be readying itself to address the issue. South Carolina and Virginia have demanded that the Democrat Party in those states certify the required qualifications of their party’s nominees for President and Vice President (Nancy Pelosi sent our a letter to the states Election Boards only certifying that they were nominees). The noose is tightening.

The U.S. recognizes dual citizenship only so far as that other country’s laws do not conflict with ours. If dual citizenship was no barrier to being elected President then Obama would have published the long-form, vault copy of his Certificate of Live Birth rather than the Certification of Live Birth, which even there in Hawaii isn’t considered proof of birth. Assuming, of course, that he was actually born in Hawaii.

Obama’s sister May was born in Djakarta, Indonesia, and Sun-yat Sen, the Chinese revolutionary born in China, both had Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth documents.

Real Americans who love their country are not going to knowing vote for a President who is a foreign national or someone with dual citizenship. That person’s allegience to this nation would always be suspect.

One of the people working with Leo Donofrio on his case before SCOTUS is a former INS agent who remembers Obama coming into this country back in 1981 at age 20. Obama had an Indonesian passport, spoke perfect English, and entered on a foreign student visa. Hence the Senator refuses to release any of his school admission records because those would show his actual citizenship status. This agent had been curious about the young man and made copies of his records.

The shit’s going to hit the fan.


261 posted on 12/01/2008 11:52:27 AM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!!)
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