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To: RummyChick

Well, I’ll try to find it, but I’m pretty sure that even if he was born in Kenya, he qualifies - unless his mother was not a citizen. I think at the time of Obama’s birth, the requirement was 10 years after the age of 14, btw; it changed a couple of times. If it was 10 years, then he wouldn’t be a citizen under the old rule because she wouldn’t have lived here long enough after 14 to confer that status, but the law was amended (in the 80s, I think) and only 2 years were required, in which case she would have been old enough.

She had been out of the country at various times for a few months here and there, but I don’t think she was actually living anywhere else, strictly speaking.

In any case, as I say, he wouldn’t be doing all this if there weren’t something to hide. Is it just that his elaborate fiction about himself will come tumbling down? Or is there really some disqualifying factor?


81 posted on 07/28/2009 1:25:39 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

I am not sure what part of “he qualifies “ you mean. If born in Kenya UK Citizen and US citizen because he was born out of wedlock. The only possible out to that is if you find that it has to be a contiguous 12 month period right before his birth or if Ann was married in a customary marriage in Kenya which I am pretty sure the US would have recognized...but not 100% sure. Even if Ann had that ceremony it would be pretty hard to prove at this point and Obama would find no reason to make such a claim because it would not work in his favor.

He can milk this for the poor woe is me scenario.

If you are talking natural born citizen there is no other statute. You only have the Constitution and the 14th amendment with case law trying to interpret it.


88 posted on 07/28/2009 2:09:00 PM PDT by RummyChick
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