“If you believe that was the intent of the founders then you are beyond hope.”
Bingo. They are beyond hope. To them, being a Natural Born US Citizen is a magical pixie dust phenomena conferred by a certain type of dirt. The idea that being raised by US citizens creates a different type of citizen than being raised by non-US citizens is incomprehensible to them.
After all, what does it matter if a candidate thinks there are 58 states or a hundred? Why should a candidate know enough about the US Marines to avoid calling them ‘corpsemen’? Why would a POTUS need even a rudimentary grasp of our Memorial Day celebration [during which Obama saw ghosts in the audience]? The very idea that a candidate should cover his heart during the National Anthem—as opposed to making an uber-creepy crouch cradle w his fingers—is stupid. As long as the candidate assures us he’s a Citizen of the World, that should be enough.
Right?
‘Beyond hope’ is the only possible explanation. Sad but true.
PS: Before anyone says Obama was raised by a US citizen, explain what country his Indonesian tranny nanny swore loyalty to. Also, which US citizen was it who gave Obama that dog meat he took such care to tell us about? Yeah, he was raised by US citizens all right. After all, he dedicated his autobiography to the American side of his family, didn’t he? That alone tells us how undying his loyalty to his adoptive country [he himself even admitted he was a Brit citizen at birth] he is.
On the plus side, ‘crotch’ is not a word I have to type often. Only when, in fact, referring to Obama’s disgusting disrespect of the National Anthem. Maybe putting your fingers across your genitalia during the US National Anthem is an Indonesian custom. Maybe even Kenyan? All we know for sure is, it's not traditional US behavior.
“To them, being a Natural Born US Citizen is a magical pixie dust phenomena conferred by a certain type of dirt.”
As opposed to what, a magical pixie dust phenomena conferred by a certain type of blood? One doesn’t seem more prima facie ridiculous than the other.
“The idea that being raised by US citizens creates a different type of citizen than being raised by non-US citizens is incomprehensible to them.”
You are aware, I trust, that the children of two citizen parents can be raised by non-citizens, too. Many people are raised by people other than their parents. They could be raised overseas, even, and still qualify to be president, assuming they come back for the residency standard.
So, yes, that being raised by non-US citizens would disqualify someone for the presidency is incomprehensible to me.
Anyone who thinks being raised by US citizen parents vs non-US citizen parents is the same thing has never been around anyone in the latter category for any extended time. We see it in our own family with my son-in-law whose parents came to the US to fulfill his dad’s lifelong dream of coming to America. In most regards they make better US citizens than many native or natural born.
BUT unlike the original settlers and most immigrants thru the first part of the 20th century, that family is able to return ‘home’ every year. The children were equally steeped in US and the old country’s cultures and languages. They were able to obtain dual-citizenship. One of the US born children has returned to live in the old country. Some very basic things that American kids, born of US citizen parents and steeped in US culture, just KNOW can come as a surprise to our son-in-law. It’s endearing, just not qualifying if he ever wanted to be POTUS.