“I don’t remember him denying the circumstances of his birth and early years.”
He is hedging on the citizenship part. Born there and lived there for four years. Non-American father. He knows he has Canadian and American citizenship. He’s the one playing games here. Not me. I don’t have to be a “sea lawyer” (whatever that means)to understand the basic facts.
He’s the one using weaselly language. He says “I believe I should be only an American.” It doesn’t matter what he believes. Little Timbucktoo from Botswana could believe he should only be an American.
He knows he has problems that’s why he’s using the weaselly statement and “his belief.”
As Solicitor General of the state of Texas where he argued and won many Supreme Court cases, I believe he knows the law a hell of a lot better than you. In fact, you know nothing whatsoever of law. Just parrot what you find on birther blogs.
Actually, he said that he did know, but that he assumed with no action that it would go away.
There's good reason for assuming that. That is the way US law is written. Since it is possible to renounce citizenship for a US citizen, it is considered an assumed renunciation if a US citizen born overseas does not file the necessary paperwork by such and such an age. I think the assumption is that they've picked up a different citizenship and refused their US citizenship.