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To: patlin; All

Doesn’t surprize me at all. Until I became “educated” by reading posts on this forum, I had always thought that the child of a U.S. citizen was eligible to run for POTUS...I think most folks think that. It wasn’t until I read explainations, thanks to posters here, about what “natural born” meant..and the origingal intent of the founders, that I became covinced POTUS Obama was a “citizen” but not a “natural born” one in the constitutional sense....because his father was not a U.S. citizen.

I was open to “education.” Many to most are not.


21 posted on 10/01/2009 8:34:27 AM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Sola Veritas
You're aware, of course, of the precedent set by Chester Arthur, whose father was an Irish citizen when the 21st President was born... Given that precedent, it seems highly unlikely that any authority would now decide that the son of a Kenyan or British citizen is ineligible now, assuming he actually was born in the US.
31 posted on 10/01/2009 4:38:53 PM PDT by MN Doc
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