[jcsjcm]

Sorry, he is not a natural born citizen. You can’t just be born on our soil and then be considered eligible for the Office of the President.

That is ludicrous! So, what you are saying is that our enemies can come over here and have their child and then go back to their country spewing hatred to that child about the United States. Then that child can come back here and attend our schools and acquire the 14 years residency so that they can now run for President to destroy our country from within?

Oh wait, that already is happening! Nevermind....

[mojitojoe]

That is ludicrous! So, what you are saying is that our enemies can come over here and have their child and then go back to their country spewing hatred to that child about the United States. Then that child can come back here and attend our schools and acquire the 14 years residency so that they can now run for President to destroy our country from within?
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Exactly!

[SideoutFred]

I suspect you need to go back and read what the law says. You may call it ludicrous, but if you are born in the United States on US soil, you are eligible to be POTUS.

You and others seem to be suggesting because his father wasn’t American that he can’t be President. THAT...is ludicrous. What are you going to tell a single mother that is an American but has a child here with no father listed on the birth certificate...is that child ineligible? Of course not. No different than having a father that’s from Kenya or wherever.

He was born in Hawaii, the birthers and their nonsense whack job crusade on this does NOTHING but benefit the liberals. It paints our size as a bunch of mouth breathing neanderthals that can’t shoot straight.

At the end of the day, if we can’t beat this clown in 2012 based on the absolute disaster that he is, then we don’t deserve to be in power. Focus on THE ISSUES, focus on what he’s done to cripple this economy, his expenditures, mandated healthcare (likely illegal), etc, etc....focusing on a birth certificate screams to everyone that we have a bunch of people on our side not ready to get serious and have tin foil hats on their heads. It brings down the conservative movement.

[SideoutFred]

Requirements to be POTUS Twelfth Amendment states that: "[N]o person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." The Fourteenth Amendment does not use the phrase "natural born citizen". It does provide that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." He's eligible. Period. End of story. Stop the nonsense. Why Obama waited until today, Lord only knows. I'm just glad he came out with it now and didn't wait until 6 months before the election which would have really buried our chances. At least now the kooks on our side that believe this stuff have been totally marginalized and we can move on as a nation to try to DEFEAT Obama on real stuff, not conspiracy tin foil hat garbage.