All this was perhaps the silliest diversion of the campaign. Per the Constitution, one need not be a ‘Native Born Citizen’ (i.e., born stateside) to become President.
Like it or not, both McCain & Bama are ‘Natural Born Citizens’ by virtue of at least one parent having been a US citizen — regardless of where in the world each was actually born.
...and your proof is?
thats where you are wrong...if Obama was born in Kenya he is a Kenyan citizen. US law stated that in order for him to be a US citizen his mother had to be 19 at his time of birth. She was only 18 when Obama was born. Kenya law stated that if one parent was a Kenyen citizen then the child was automatically a Kenyan citizen. Obama’s father was from Kenya. Additionally, Obamas mothers 2nd husband was from Indonesia, he adopted Obama and they lived there for several years. Obama went to private school in Indonesia and his mother listed his religon as Islam on his school records all this would make him an Indonesian citizen. So tecnically he has dual-citizenship with Kenya and Indonesia...and none with the US.
Still waiting for proof....tick tock tick tock.
McCain has been proven.
Obamao?
“All this was perhaps the silliest diversion of the campaign.”
At least on Free Republic it has been.
It is a bit more complex than that. There is a dual citizenship problem. You can loose your citizenship by gaining citizenship in a nation that does not recognise dual citizenship.
Like Indonesia.
Obama’s mother traveled to Kenya to meet Obama’s father’s family when she was 8 months pregnant with Obama. She gave birth to Obama in Kenya because she went into labor early and she could not return to Hawaii in time.
Obama’s mother was a U.S. citizen. We know that. However, when she gave birth to Obama in Kenya she was 18 years old. U.S. laws governing citizenship state that in order for a parent who is a U.S. citizen to be able to transfer their citizenship to a a child of theirs that is born on foreign soil, that U.S. citizen parent must be at least 19 years old at the time of the birth of the child.
Obama’s mother was 18 when she had him on foreign soil. Therefore, there is no way for Obama to be a U.S. citizen by virtue of his mother being a U.S. citizen.
Therefore, Obama is not a U.S. citizen which is why by his own omission and his graeschool registration record in Jakarta he traveled to Indonesia at age 6 on an Indonesian passport. This was because he never had any other passport and his step-father who is a citizen of Indonesia secured that one for him.
Barack Hussein Obama is an Indonesian citizen, not an American citizen.
And we’re all too stupid or too afraid (of what?!) to make this truth stick and force him out of the presidential race. His lack of U.S. citizenship should also knock him out of his U.S. senate seat.
Stanley Ann was a minor.
Like it or not, if Obama was born in Kenya, Canada, Venesuela, or on board a ship outside the territorial waters of the US, Obama would not be a "Natural born citizen." His US citizenship was imputed to him, not at birth but when he becane an adult, by virtue of his mom being a US citizen.
Yes, Obama is now a US citizen., but NO, he is not natural born if he was born outside the US.