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6 months ago
in GOP Senators Letters Give Anti-Obama Activists Hope on The Washington Independent
According to Article I, section 8, clause 4, the US Congress has the power to establish a uniform standard of naturalization. This standard has been in place since the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (July 9, 1868) and has been modified over the years by changes in existing laws the most recent of which was the Child Citizen Act of 2000.
The bottom line is that if ONE of your parents is a naturalized US Citizen YOU are a naturalized citizen. It doesn't matter where you were born.
Obama's mother, Ann Dunham Sutoro, was born in Kansas in November 29, 1942. That makes her a naturalized citizen and therefore - regardless of where his father was from or had citizenship - makes her offspring citizens as well. Even if Obama was not born in Hawaii as he very obviously was, he would still be a US citizen and if Obama is not a citizen then neither is John McCain as he was born in the Panama Canal zone before any status of forces agreement or ownership treaty was signed.
Your cynical, divisive, partisan and racist attempt to overturn the will of the the large majority of US voters to your own benefit will not work in this case. As far as "no definitive proof has been offered" what more definitive proof would you like other than his birth certificate - which I might add is the only real proof of citizenship any of the rest of us have - would you like to travel back in time and witness his birth personally?
To paraphrase 'justice' Antonin Scalia - You lost. Get over it.
If you wingnuts are so 'interested in ensuring that the Constitution is not subverted' then perhaps you should try actually reading it and then try looking into the Bush administration's suspension of habeas corpus, most of the bill of rights and use of torture.
The bottom line is that if ONE of your parents is a naturalized US Citizen YOU are a naturalized citizen. It doesn't matter where you were born.
Obama's mother, Ann Dunham Sutoro, was born in Kansas in November 29, 1942. That makes her a naturalized citizen and therefore - regardless of where his father was from or had citizenship - makes her offspring citizens as well. Even if Obama was not born in Hawaii as he very obviously was, he would still be a US citizen and if Obama is not a citizen then neither is John McCain as he was born in the Panama Canal zone before any status of forces agreement or ownership treaty was signed.
Your cynical, divisive, partisan and racist attempt to overturn the will of the the large majority of US voters to your own benefit will not work in this case. As far as "no definitive proof has been offered" what more definitive proof would you like other than his birth certificate - which I might add is the only real proof of citizenship any of the rest of us have - would you like to travel back in time and witness his birth personally?
To paraphrase 'justice' Antonin Scalia - You lost. Get over it.
If you wingnuts are so 'interested in ensuring that the Constitution is not subverted' then perhaps you should try actually reading it and then try looking into the Bush administration's suspension of habeas corpus, most of the bill of rights and use of torture.
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What kind of mental munchkin could accept a picture on a website as definitive proof of a legal document? No judge would do that. I swear, they must have had Obama's fans in mind when they made Idiocracy.