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To: GBA
If what you say is true, there would be no need to include the wording as they did in the eligibility requirement.

Are you talking about the grandfather clause? Did you even read the posts referenced in those links? Do I have to post the entire text? Or are you able to click on a link?

It is absolutely clear that the grandfather clause wasn't put in there for the purpose of making George Washington eligible to be President. It was put in there for the purpose of making people like James Wilson (born in Scotland) and Alexander Hamilton (born on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean) eligible.

Washington, Jefferson, and the other Founders who were born in any of the 13 Colonies-->States were all native sons, and the Founders considered all of them to be natural born subjects/ citizens.

For an explanation of why that's the case, click the links.

There's not a single competent historian or significant legal authority, and as far as I can tell, there never has been, who thinks the grandfather clause was put in there to make George Washington eligible.

When you have several opposing opinions, answers can be found, not by a battle of opposing quotes... but from determining intent and purpose, and then letting the facts tell you the truth.

Letting your agenda dictate your truth first, then cherry picking your facts and ignoring inconvenient counter data, is the wrong approach and almost always results in error.

To find the truth, it's better to be a trouble shooter, an engineer or a forensic detective, rather than a quote hunter, and let facts and your reason tell you the story and show you what the truth is.

This is exactly what I've been saying from the very beginning.

Incidentally, there's no "counter data" that I or any of the other reality-based people here have "ignored." We've looked at every single damn point raised by the birthers. I have a list of 48 bogus arguments made by birthers - which in fact includes every major argument I know of that they've made - and I can explain to you or anyone else exactly why each and every one of them is BS.

It's not the same for the birthers. We raise a point (like this one) and they either ignore it, or come up with some obvious fallacy to try and explain it away.

So it's completely clear to anyone who spends the time to really look at the arguments who's telling the truth, and who's slinging enormous amounts of BS.

464 posted on 07/31/2013 7:05:59 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: Jeff Winston
There's not a single competent historian or significant legal authority, and as far as I can tell, there never has been, who thinks...blah, blah, blah, blah. So there!" "Your move."

See? "There you go again." Boring. Same old same ol', again and again. Boring.

Would it matter how many "competent whatevers" were shown to you by anyone?
Nope, of course not. Not yet anyway. So, why play?

You just keep playing the same...old...boring...lines...over...and...over...again...and...again...boring...until my ears are bleeding, boring.

You must just be a hoot at a party.

(Just trying to help you, brother. I can see you need it. So little time left...)

467 posted on 07/31/2013 7:43:40 PM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Romans 1:18-32)
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To: Jeff Winston
It's not the same for the birthers. We raise a point (like this one) and they either ignore it, or come up with some obvious fallacy to try and explain it away.

So it's completely clear to anyone who spends the time to really look at the arguments who's telling the truth, and who's slinging enormous amounts of BS.

Who's telling the truth and who's slinging enormous amounts of BS? Who is coming up with some obvious fallacy to trying and explain it away? Direct your attention to the claims of Bayard as distinguished from the law, the Framers, and the 1790 Naturalization Act.

472 posted on 07/31/2013 10:00:32 PM PDT by Ray76 (Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
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