Posted on 08/24/2012 12:14:37 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
The Obama campaign looked to capitalize on Mitt Romney's joke about the president's birth certificate Friday afternoon, with campaign traveling press secretary Jen Psaki denouncing a "pattern" of comments from the Republican challenger.
"This is the kind of gutterball politics that will and should turn the American people off," Psaki told MSNBC. "This is a pattern. Mitt Romney has questioned repeatedly over the last several months whether the president understands America, whether he understands freedom — he's wrapped his arms around Donald Trump, one of the originators of the birther movement, so we've seen a pattern here."
Earlier Friday, Romney joked about the controversy surrounding the president's birth certificate during a campaign stop in Michigan.
"Now I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born. Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital. I was born in Harper Hospital," Romney said.
"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised."
Romney aides quickly looked to downplay the remark, insisting their candidate did not mean to question the president's birthplace.
"The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States. He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised," a Romney spokesman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Well, how about you show us the birth microfiche and College entrance application, to start
Oh, and as BJ Clinton is fond of saying, “better put some ice on that”
I believe Sheriff Joe, on Thursday, will address some of the folks from the Western States.
I’m starting to smell what the Rock is Cooking!!!
...next thing you know, Romney will be showing us his college transcripts
Best idea yet.
Then he should flash his Social Security card...
Romney “believes” Ubama was born in the US. (hint hint: I don’t know for sure because we have not seen an authentic birth record, therefore I BELIEVE he was born in Hawaii.)
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No its not that at all...
He was outspoken in his crotism of us birthers all these years demanding to see the birth certificate and wondering why Obama wouldnt show it...
Willard mocked us and called us “birthers” as a derogetory term and demanded that we stop asking...
Thats hot someone who is concerned at Obamas BC himself...
Thats someone who is concerned that he will have to prove his own Amertican citizenship because he too like Obama had a foreign born fsahter...
George Romney was born in Mexico to parents who were nor under the jurisdiction of the American laws, the Constitution at the time having left the US for good and who didnt want to ever live here again...
Only a revolution several years after Georges birth caused them to flee back into the US like illegal aliens...
all of this is well known and the Obaqma team will use it againt EWillard like they tried with McCain...
So Willard did not want Obamas birthplace nor his father to be part of this election...
Now hes trying to make light of it and make it a joke...
Obama may have been born at home so Willards latest gaffe the hospital joke wont play well with a lot of people ...
Romney’s campaign should be proud of the comment, not run from it.
The REAL joke is Obama.
The Venus, 12 U.S. 8 Cranch 253 253 (1814)
Vattel, who, though not very full to this point, is more explicit and more satisfactory on it than any other whose work has fallen into my hands, says: “The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens. Society not being able to subsist and to perpetuate itself but by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights.
Shanks v. Dupont, 28 U.S. 3 Pet. 242 242 (1830)
Ann Scott was born in South Carolina before the American revolution, and her father adhered to the American cause and remained and was at his death a citizen of South Carolina. There is no dispute that his daughter Ann, at the time of the Revolution and afterwards, remained in South Carolina until December, 1782. Whether she was of age during this time does not appear. If she was, then her birth and residence might be deemed to constitute her by election a citizen of South Carolina. If she was not of age, then she might well be deemed under the circumstances of this case to hold the citizenship of her father, for children born in a country, continuing while under age in the family of the father, partake of his national character as a citizen of that country. Her citizenship, then, being prima facie established, and indeed this is admitted in the pleadings, has it ever been lost, or was it lost before the death of her father, so that the estate in question was, upon the descent cast, incapable of vesting in her? Upon the facts stated, it appears to us that it was not lost and that she was capable of taking it at the time of the descent cast.
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)
The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As society cannot perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their parents, and succeed to all their rights.' Again: 'I say, to be of the country, it is necessary to be born of a person who is a citizen; for if he be born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country. . . .
Minor v. Happersett , 88 U.S. 162 (1875)
The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children, born in a country of parents who were its citizens, became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.
Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939),
Was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that a child born in the United States to naturalized parents on U.S. soil is a natural born citizen and that the child's natural born citizenship is not lost if the child is taken to and raised in the country of the parents' origin, provided that upon attaining the age of majority, the child elects to retain U.S. citizenship "and to return to the United States to assume its duties." Not only did the court rule that she did not lose her native born Citizenship but it upheld the lower courts decision that she is a "natural born Citizen of the United States" because she was born in the USA to two naturalized U.S. Citizens.
But the Secretary of State, according to the allegation of the bill of complaint, had refused to issue a passport to Miss Elg 'solely on the ground that she had lost her native born American citizenship.' The court below, properly recognizing the existence of an actual controversy with the defendants [307 U.S. 325, 350] (Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Haworth, 300 U.S. 227 , 57 S.Ct. 461, 108 A.L.R. 1000), declared Miss Elg 'to be a natural born citizen of the United States' (99 F.2d 414) and we think that the decree should include the Secretary of State as well as the other defendants. The decree in that sense would in no way interfere with the exercise of the Secretary's discretion with respect to the issue of a passport but would simply preclude the denial of a passport on the sole ground that Miss Elg had lost her American citizenship."
The Supreme Court of the United States has never applied the term “natural born citizen” to any other category than “those born in the country of parents who are citizens thereof”.
Who gives a sh*t?
Obama must go, period.
I think that somehow Trump got his hands on Zero’s college applications to Occidental & Columbia. I believe they show he represented himself as a citizen of Indonesia, with no high school diploma or SAT score, and college was paid by a Fulbright scholarship.
Did big bad rich Romney make the commie sob cry?!? Awww...
That’ll get you thrown out of the game...just ask Scott Diamond (MN Twins v. TX Rangers 8-23-12)
Thin skin and sharp elbows. A hypocritical combination. What a crybaby.
I predict a major meltdown by November.
Catching flak, must be over the target.
TRANSPARENCY
Where are the transcripts? Where is the college thesis?
As an employer, I want to verify what the applicant has put in his resume.
So now speaking the truth is “gutterball politics” These people are such a joke.
I guess she means gutter politics. Which, again, the President would be an expert on.
Is this a trick question?
Romney’s spoke people had better smarten up as to the ‘birther’ issue. Many people can/will accept that Obama was born ‘here’ in the USA but there are a lot of waves rolling in that suggest a different story. I believe there will be a bunch of people with pie on their face when the final chapters of Obama’s parentage is written. Jarret and Soros and Axelrod(s) will peobably be outed too.
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