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To: El Gato

Thanks for giving me the citation for the US law.

“was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years”

Wasn’t his mother 17 at his birth? If she was 15 and a half then it would apply, but not 17 since she was living in the US for more than than five years.

Even if she was in Kenya, she had lived in the US for more than five years, two after age 14.

(Not that I am a O supporter or anything. It is just that this stuff sounds crazy and Anne Coulter and Michael Medved both say this is a goose chase.)


592 posted on 07/28/2009 9:07:08 PM PDT by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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To: garjog
The law was different in 1961 than it is now. It changed in 1986.

You may find this interesting also.

The Fourteenth Amendment and a “natural born citizen” (Obama NOT nbc even if born in Hawaii)

595 posted on 07/28/2009 9:21:55 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: garjog
Wasn’t his mother 17 at his birth? If she was 15 and a half then it would apply, but not 17 since she was living in the US for more than than five years.

She was 18, but from 1952, when the residency requirement as it now reads was passed, and 1986, when the requirements were changed to their present values, it was 10 years of residency, 5 of which had to be after the 14th birthday of the US citizen parent. You have to look at the "notes" which are linked on the right hand side of the page I provided the link to.

629 posted on 07/29/2009 12:17:52 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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