Actually, its really not cut and dried. The Constitution specifies a "natural born citizen". Does that mean born in the US? If so, McCain wouldn't have qualified as he was born in Panama. It was at a US base and under our soveriegnty, but still foriegn soil. Obama? Let's assume Kenya or Indonesia. His mother was a US citizen. To DQ him the court would have to rule that if an American woman gives birth overseas her child is not a citizen. That is absurd on its face. Our law has always encompassed both jus sanguinis AND jus soli. You are a citizen if your mother is American or if you were born on US soil. It can be argued that the framers intended this. There are counter arguments as 18th and 19th century law said that a woman't citizenship followed that of her husband, but expat childen were still citizens. The necessities of early travel mandated this. And the idea that you surrender citizenship by marrying a foriegn national has been repudiated. So, its not a silver bullet to get rid of the guy.
FQ13
Even for a College Prof, you are ill informed. Both McCain's parents were US citizens, He would qualify as a "Natural born citizen if he were born in the Russian sector of the Moon. The fact that he was born in a US Navy hospital on what, until carter, was US soil only reinforces the legitimacy of that due to accurate record keeping. Only an idiot would even raise the question.
Another statement of your ignorance is "
To DQ him the court would have to rule that if an American woman gives birth overseas her child is not a citizen. The fact is that for a period of time, ( I am not sure of the years ) if an American woman married a non citizen she did indeed lose her citizenship. This issue was discussed ad nauseum in another thread.
The remaining questions about Obummers birth have nothing to do with citizenship except in the minds of the ignorant and the tin foil set. His mother was a US citizen at the time of his birth where ever that vent occurred, there is no record of him (He would have to do it in writing to the proper section of the State dept. ) renouncing his citizenship, therefore the citizenship of Barry Obama is not open to question.
What
is open to question are two items, Was Barry Obama Sr. the listed Father,or was it the child molesting black poet "Frank" from the CPUSA ? Is this person in the Whitehouse actually the son of Ann Dunham, or just some one who found the name useful ?
How does a dope smoking, B-Ball playing mediocre student suddenly wind up at Harvard ? How does a kid raised by a hardware store proprietor afford Harvard, or finance an illegal trip to Pakistan ?
Another thing, it is not just a matter of his birth certificate, why are
all his personal records kept secret ? Did he lie on Financial aid forms ? Or was his education financed through bank accounts connected to the CPUSA ? Did he really serve as the only unpublished editor of the Harvard Law Review ? Or is this another exaggeration, like his being a "Constitutional law professor" ? Or were his published works so egregiously racist or communist as to possibly disqualify him from holding office ? What was his actual relationship with the terrorist Bill Ayer's and his convicted bomber wife ? He claims they were neighbors, who happened to work in the same building, yet their business phone numbers were the same extension, and he launched his Senate campaign in their living room.
And you have the nerve to parrot the communists attacks on Palin's qualifications ? You are exactly the sort of dumb ass they counted on to get this POS elected.
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