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To: wtc911

No I don’t think he was. Here’s the problem people, and it’s easier than most people think.

Although as long as his mother was a US citizen, he’s eligible to be president, Obama WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS. That is why he was dishonest with his birth records. People observe his dishonesty but mistakenly assuming he’s actually a “constitutional scholar”. If he was anything of the constitutional scholar he claims to be he would not need to be shady and nobody would have cared about this issue.

Again, at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1401.html as somebody posted.

(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years

Can we please focus on his policies now and do something positive like writing to our congressional representatives?


102 posted on 08/17/2009 1:51:03 PM PDT by ActrFshr
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To: ActrFshr
Although as long as his mother was a US citizen, he’s eligible to be president,

That is plainly not true. It's possible for someones mother to be a citizen and they not even be a citizen, let alone a "natural born citizen". This can be the case under current law, although it was more likely to occur under the law existing when Barry was born, just due to the more stringent requirements then in existence.

See 8 USC 1401 for those requirements. Pay attention to the changes, available on the Notes link for the 1986 changes.

123 posted on 08/19/2009 3:24:23 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: ActrFshr
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years

Umm, the requirement was ten years total, five after becoming 14, when BHO Jr was born. (change was in 1986). Stanley Ann Dunham Obama did not meet the 5 years since age 14 residency requirement, since she was not yet 19.

124 posted on 08/19/2009 3:29:02 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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