Posted on 05/16/2011 7:24:04 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
A couple of points. In the Wong Kim Ark case, the Supreme Court acknowledged that (at the time) parents COULD do something to cause the child to lose his or her citizenship: "... has never lost or changed that residence, or gained or acquired another residence, and neither he nor his parents acting for him ever renounced his allegiance to the United States, or did or committed any act or thing to exclude him ..." The state department has admitted on an adoption website that it cannot protect U.S. citizenship for those persons adopted in countries that do not recognize dual citizenship (such as Indonesia). Further, the issue isn't just whether Obama/ Soetoro may have lost/renounced his U.S. citizenship (if he EVER had it to begin with), but whether Obama acted as a foreign citizen as an adult and whether he took steps to dishonestly hide his foreign citizenship(s) from voters. How many people vote for a guy when they learn he's lied about whether he was ever the citizen of another country??
Why do you assune that he was born "here"?
“...his own statement that he didn’t have a US passport until 2004...”
Could you direct me to a source for this? Since O. publicly stated that he travelled to Pakistan and India in 1980, this would be a most interesting contradiction. Thanks.
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