You are confusing the legal definition of citizenship, the three types of statutory citizenships recognized by our country, with a requirement for the highest political office in the U.S.A. They are two entirely different things.
In the U.S.Constitution is it very clear: one needs to be a citizen to be a Representative in the House of Congress; one needs to be a citizen to be a Senator in Congress; to be President of the United States one MUST be a Natural Born Citizen.
There is a difference, and our founders wanted it that way.
If Obama was indeed born in Hawaii, he still isn’t eligible to be President as his father was a foreign national, in his case, a subject of Great Britain.
Many people don’t know this, but Obama’s father registered him with the Consulate in Hawaii as a British subject after birth. Three years later, when Kenya became an independent nation, Obama II was again registered but this time as a citizen of Kenya.
The main thing to remember about Obama is that the only way to shed his status as a subject of Great Britain is by naturalizing as citizen to another nation, something we assume he has never done.
NONSENSE. McCain is an NBC, as are the thousands upon thousands of children born abroad to US parents in the line of duty. PERIOD
You do not have to pretend I don’t know the difference between a citizen and an NBC. I knew it long before you did.
I know all about the Obama story too. Completely unrelated to McCain’s circumstances.
“Many people don’t know this, but Obama’s father registered him with the Consulate in Hawaii as a British subject after birth”
That’s the first I heard of that.....is that why he wasn’t registered with the HDOH. /s
” You are confusing the legal definition of citizenship, ..”
Which is exactly what the White House wants.
Gibbs always frames the issue as the “ birthers “ claim Barry is not a US citizen.
I expect the media to swallow Gibb’s lie , unfortunately too many
Republicans ( Cantor being the latest )
also show their ignorance .
The salient question is not simple citizenship .
White House Press Briefing July 27, 2009 :
BTW- Gibbs also claimed that he posted Obama’s
“ birth certificate “ on line.
Q Is there anything you can say that will make the birthers go away?
MR. GIBBS: No. (Laughter.) I mean, the God’s honest truth is no.
I mean, Bill, let’s understand this —
and I almost hate to indulge in such an august setting
as the White House
— and I mean this in seriousness — the White House briefing room discussing
the made-up, fictional nonsense
of whether or not the President
was born in this country.
A year-and-a-half ago I asked that the birth certificate be put on the Internet because lord knows,
you got a birth certificate
and you put it on the Internet,
what else could be the story?
Here’s the deal , Bill. ...blah, blah , blah
He’s a citizen.
MR. GIBBS: See, there we go. ...Blah, blah
But no, nothing will assuage them.
But there are 10,000 more important issues for people in this country to discuss,
rather than whether
or not the President is a citizen.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/briefing-white-house-press-secretary-robert-gibbs-7-27-09
I have always assumed that Obama's father did so (he was, after all, a Kenyan government apparatchik), but I hadn't seen anything confirming this until now. Where did you find this confirmation?