Actually, they are citing current law correctly. It suffices to have a US citizen mother to become a citizen at birth, and you can be born anywhere to get that. But that's today not 1961. The best you can do in retort is to point out that the law at the time of BHO's birth was a bit confusing such that a woman as young as Obama's mother might not meet residency requirements (something like 3 years in the US after age 16) if he was born overseas. If he was born in Honolulu, SCOTUS Wong Kim Ark ruling is the precedent and he's a citizen for sure.
I posted: Conclusion (on the Wong Kim Ark SCOTUS ruling)
Taken into account the legislative history behind the citizenship clause - and the courts own stated objective in reaching the conclusion they did while also taking into account two prior Supreme Court holdings - leaves the Wong Kim Ark ruling as worthless as a three-dollar bill. (on the issue of natural born citizenship) The Court will never be able to sugarcoat over history or deny the acts of Congress in attempt to maintain England’s old feudal common law doctrine in this country at the expense of rendering unethical and legally unsound rulings.
NOTE: The Wong Kim Ark ruling left undisturbed the uniform judicial doctrine since 1885 that said when residence is permanent the child born here of permanent residents should be considered a citizen of the United States (Only citizen, not natural born citizen). Although not a constitutional controversy under the words or interpretation the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment provided, current federal judicial understanding could be said unsettled under Wong Kim Ark in terms of temporary or illegal residents. [[ http://federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered.html ]]
375 posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:04:34 PM by MHGinTN
To which you posted:
I stated earlier that you have to in effect argue that SCOTUS was wrong in their ruling on Wong Kim Ark back in 1896 in order to advance a narrow view of natural born citizenship that doesnt automatically include everyone born in the USA via 14th amendment clause. Lo and behold, you make my point!
380 posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:12:55 PM by WOSG
It must be tough to keep up with all the contradictory points you make at FR on the issue of Barry Soetoro's eligibility. Like jello and nails, you're pure deceit in action.