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To: House Atreides

His father was born in mexico, and failed to ever declare US citizenship upon entry to the US.

George Romney’s candidacy was a bad joke on the American people.


117 posted on 02/27/2012 11:36:08 AM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: editor-surveyor

“His father was born in mexico, and failed to ever declare US citizenship upon entry to the US.

George Romney’s candidacy was a bad joke on the American people.”
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Well, I’ve never declared US citizenship upon my numerous returns to CONUS from military duty overseas. That doesn’t make me an alien or non-citizen. I believe that there was a federal court decision/opinion that John McCain was a “natural born citizen” (and thus eligible for the Presidency) despite being born overseas because at the time of his birth both his parents were US citizens.

The following is an extract that may be relevant to this discussion.

“Romney’s great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, fled the United States and crossed into Mexico in 1885 to escape religious persecution. He helped build the Mormon enclave of Colonia Juarez in Chihuahua.

Miles Park Romney never became a Mexican citizen, and neither did his son, Gaskell, or grandson, George. They were all denied Mexican citizenship because statutes on the books in Mexico denied that right to American settlers and their offspring.”

Here’s a link to the article (from that notoriously pro-Republican CNN) from which the above was extracted:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/12/opinion/romney-hispanic-roots/index.html?eref=rss_politics&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+Politics%29

There DEFINITELY IS an issue with Obama not being a natural born citizen. I don’t think it is helpful in maintaining clarity on this issue by blowing a bunch of misleading “smoke” on this. It distracts from the true issues. And I agree that Rubio is NOT a natural born citizen. But he is also NOT a candidate for the Presidency.


118 posted on 02/27/2012 2:43:19 PM PST by House Atreides
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