This thing is going to be a freak-show for ALL people, no matter where they stand on the birther thing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1312802.html
This thing is going to be a freak-show for ALL people, no matter where they stand on the birther thing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1312802.html
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I thought the whole thing was pretty simple. Even IF obama was born in the US, don't BOTH of his parents have to be born in the US as well?
No, if you're born in the US, you're a naturally born US citizen. That gets complicated with illegal immigrants, but the law existed to protect freed slaves in the south. If you're born abroad, and you have one parent who is a US citizen, I think you get citizenship too, but you're not naturally born.
Personally, I don't like the "naturally born" requirement to the presidency. I think it should be something more like, you must have lived in the US for at least 35 years. It doesn't make sense that someone who came to the country as an infant can't run for President, but someone who was born here and has lived abroad their whole life can.
I'm pretty sure Obama was born in Hawaii, because a local newspaper reported it.
Once again, for about the millionth time, if there was actually anything to this, he would've been chewed up and spit out during the '08 primaries by the Clinton Smear Machine...
Supposedly, he's discovered that Obama has used multiple SSI numbers over the years.
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So much wasted energy on this issue. Their making "themselves" look koo koo...
I think there is some rule or something that says you cannot be President if you impersonate someone else or something. I honestly don't know...
I don't buy the birther argument anyway....but I AM curious to see what this guy unearths, or if he's just creating a diversion from his own myriad legal problems.
But, if he IS somehow right, and Barry cannot run, Hillary almost certainly would. That would certainly be the end of Romney. She's a better candidate now than anyone on either side of the aisle based on her foreign policy credentials...
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The only possible Constitutional question that can be raised is about his dual citizenship, but nobody's gonna raise it 'cuz that would disqualify Romney as well. I don't think this is a wise course for Sheriff Joe, but I don't blame him for being mad at this administration with all their trumped-up "legal" charges.
Like Suit, I've got my popcorn ready for the show.
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
That wouldn't work because an immigrant's children would then be native born but not natural born, which means their children wouldn't be natural born, which means their children wouldn't be natural born, etc....basically the only way to be eligible is if all your ancestors were already here in 1789.
The Constitution doesn't define the term natural born, so the only thing we can go by is the Fourteenth Amendment. That covers everyone born here except the children of foreign diplomats (because they're not 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof').
I heard Obama killed Andrew Breitbart.
Update (hardly a surprise):
At a news conference, Arpaio said the probe revealed that there was probable cause to believe Obama's long-form birth certificate released by the White House in April is a computer-generated forgery. He also said the selective service card completed by Obama in 1980 in Hawaii also was most likely a forgery.
"We don't know who the perpetrators are of these documents," Arpaio said, although he said he doesn't think the president forged the documents.
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