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To: Citizen Blade

Then you won’t mind showing us—from the thread and article I linked to—where he’s in error. ... We’ll wait for you to read the pertinent data instead of just popping off from your n00b mouth.


297 posted on 12/03/2008 11:52:16 AM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
Then you won’t mind showing us—from the thread and article I linked to—where he’s in error.

Sure, no problem, how about his claim that:

I have REPEATEDLY stated that Obama can release a golden birth certificate signed by 100 gazzillion witnesses embossed in gold leaf that he was born on the mall in Washington DC and it still wouldn’t make him a “Natural Born Citizen” under the Constitution because he was, regardless of where he was born, a BRITISH citizen “at birth.” Since he was “born” as a British citizen/subject, his United States citizenship was not “natural”.

This argument has no support in the Constitution or Federal statutory or case law. What Donofrio is arguing, essentially, is that foreign countries can, by passing a law, disqualify Americans from the Presidency. So, North Korea would pass a law stating that henceforth, any American citizen from birth is also a citizen of North Korea, thereby disqualifying anyone after the date of such law from serving as President.

Granted, this hypothetical is unlikely to happen, but it just illustrates how untenable his position is, in that it looks to foreign citizenship laws, rather than the laws of the US, to determine whether or not one is qualified to server as President.

311 posted on 12/03/2008 12:08:59 PM PST by Citizen Blade (What would Ronald Reagan do?)
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