Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. Natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between "December 24, 1952 to November 13, 1986? .A little further research, citing more chapter and verse in the US code, could reveal if this is accurate (which I have not done yet) as regards the legal definition of natural-born citizen at the time as stated by the US constitution. It is a technicality...and one clearly Obama would argue against and probably take all the way to the USSC.Presidential office requires a natural-born citizen if the child was not born to two U.S. Citizen parents, which of course is what exempts John McCain though he was born in the Panama Canal.
US Law very clearly stipulates: "…If only one parent was a U.S. Citizen at the time of your birth, that parent must have resided in the United States for at least ten years, at least five of which had to be after the age of 16."
Barack Obama’s father was not a U.S. Citizen and Obama’s mother was only 18 when Obama was born, which means though she had been a U.S. Citizen for 10 years, (or citizen perhaps because of Hawai’i being a territory) the mother fails the test for being so for at least 5 years **prior to** Barack Obama’s birth, but *after* age 16.
It doesn’t matter *after* .
In essence, she was not old enough to qualify her son for automatic U.S. Citizenship.
At most, there were only 2 years elapsed since his mother turned 16 at the time of Barack Obama’s birth when she was 18 in Hawaii.
His mother would have needed to have been 16+5= 21 years old, at the time of Barack Obama’s birth for him to have been a natural-born citizen.
As aformentioned, she was a young college student at the time and was not. Barack Obama was already 3 years old at that time his mother would have needed to have waited to have him as the only U.S. Cizen parent.
Obama instead should have been naturalized, but even then, that would still disqualify him from holding the office.
And a decision would be rendered sometime in 2014... :)
Thanks for including that information in this thread. It’s a very interesting situation for sure.
If he was born in America to an American mother, you’re gonna have a very tough time getting him disqualified (even if nuances of law indicate he should be).
Regardless of anything else that has been used against Obama up to this point, if the law is correctly stated, and if the facts and circumstances are shown to be true, this is political dynamite of the highest and most explosive order.
No wonder they’re trying to keep things under wraps. Perhaps there is some snippet of information on the mysterious birth certificate that disclaims citizenship, or could be implied to do that.
- John
One would have to check the law that made Hawaii a state, but I assume that everyone who was born there prior to it becoming a state did not have to go thru a naturalization process to be considered a US citizen. No naturalization required, then the only alternative is to be considered natural born.
Barry Goldwater had something similar because he was born in AZ before it became a state.
That’s all irrelevant unless he was born outside the US. If he was born in Hawaii, the citizenship status of neither of his parents matters (unless they were here as diplomats or members of an occupying army).
He deserves that opportunity.