Posted on 08/05/2008 7:20:42 AM PDT by pissant
Technically, yes (assuming that such candidate met the 14(?) year residency requirement). Real-world, though, such a person would have a very difficult time getting elected for the very reasons you raised- people would be nervous about electing someone who spent so long living outside of the country. But that's a political, not legal, issue.
Even if all this isn't true, I think it's pretty clear that Obama is not qualified to be dog catcher.
The President is not actually given a security clearance. As the head of the Executive Branch, and by virtue of winning the election, he is entitled to access all classified documents and information. He's the boss, essentially, so there is simply no way to deny him access to any secrets he wants to see.
John McCain produced a fake COLB?
Questions of background, experience and ideology
are for mere American mortals.
Let the coronation of the messianic n0ob begin.
Zia was after my time, though my dad knew him as he (Dad) was the Assistant Air Attache to the US Embassy - actually, back in those days we and everybody else called it the American Embassy. Don’t get me started...
One cannot stop dual citizenship conferred automatically from another country. Otherwise, France could have offered Bush a citizenship in 2006 and he would have had to step down.
Only applying for citizenship elsewhere affects a person’s U.S. citizenship.
The Supremes are bound to follow the law, and there is no grey area in this case. The statutes in force at the time of Obama's birth are clear - he would not qualify as a 'natural born' citizen if born in Indonesia and fathered by a citizen of Indonesia due to his mother's age, therefore he would not be eligible to be POTUS.
It would raise many problems if young female American citizens had citizenship questions about children born either in or out of wedlock, fathered by foreign nationals, at least leaving them in limbo.
Such children are not 'in limbo.' They are US citizens, just not 'natural born' US citizens, so are therefore unqualified to be POTUS.
It seems common-sense here.
Yes, it is common-sense.
If the mother is an American citizen, unless she has renounced her citizenship, it shouldn’t matter where the child is born, as the child would still be considered a citizen of the U.S. (and hence, qualified to run for President).
Wrong...the father must also be a US citizen, since the mother had not lived in the US for at least 5 years after attaining the age of 16. READ THE STATUTE!
http://www.barackobama.com/images/fts/BO_birthcert.jpg
Not quite as low res as it appears on the web page.
Fred Nerks found the answer to that. Apparently, Maya was born twice.
Thanks, PhilDragoo.
Very good...a succinct graphic.
Well, if damaging claims were made about McCain based on Ancestry.com or Wikipedia entries, I wouldn’t accept them, so I can’t accept them about Obama or Maya.
The info is certainly interesting, but that’s all so far.
Nothing good enough to actually be used, imo.
Dr.Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng
Is she getting paid by the name.
bttt
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I find it interesting that TechDude had completed the analysis but instead of going public with the information immediately he played this little game with a trip to Vegas as the prize. Compare this scenario to what happened with the forged national guard memos. They were dissected in a matter of hours by an impromptu group of pajama warriors on FR and LGF.
Once the delegate count was out of Hillary's reach but before she gave her non-concession speech, I predicted Hillary would hit Obama with a one-two punch, two or three weeks before the convention. This gives enough time to lobby the SDs but not enough time for Obama to recover.
Obama's poll numbers have been slipping, raising anxiety in the DNC and MSM about the election. He should be way ahead right now. Now that the steps to identify the forgery have been revealed on the net by Hillary's operatives, right wing talk radio will pick up on it and eventually it will hit the MSM. The "credit" will be given to the right wing, even though the original source is a pro-Hillary website. Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, etc. are so arrogant they will eagerly claim credit for taking the story mainstream. This is how Hillary intends to keep the black vote, by placing blame for Obama's downfall on the right.
If Obama starts to regain his footing, a roundhouse is waiting for him. The "Whitey" tape is my guess. That story was leaked to get the Obama and company on the record denying it happened. Clinton-lover Larry Johnson surfaced the story and then tried to pin blame for the rumor on Rush. If that tape is released now the damage will be ten-fold of that if it had been released while the rumors were still swirling. The story becomes about the lies, denials and coverup, and not his wife's racist comments which he might survive to get the nomination.
Obama, McCain, and right wing talk radio are about to be blindsided. It reminds me of the Joker in the latest Batman movie, toying with the criminals and cops, the mob and the public because he understands their proclivities. The Clintons are running the long con and exploiting the arrogance of everyone involved. Don't take your eyes off the Clintons, ever!
(It's either that or my tin foil hat is on too tight.)
The sources for exposing the COLB forgery are Townhall.com (a freeper named Polarik)and Atlas Shrugs - right wingers. Texasdarlin (a hillary supporter) and Larry Johnson’s site (No Quarter - also a hillary supporter) have just been publicizing them because of the common interest in pancaking Obama.
These are Hildibeast supporters. What did you expect? and why do you care if they look foolish? Let them look foolish if they want, and anyway, who knows, Obama wasn't the smartest guy running for president amongst a crowd of morons. They might be right about him. I wouldn't be at all suprised to learn he has been lying about his place of birth for years. Would it really surprise you?
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