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Ladysforest, please post where the US Constitution forbids someone with dual citizenship from being President.

You cannot, because the Constitution A) Does not mention dual citizenship, and B) Allows someone born in the US to foreign parents to become president, although some countries would claim that person as a citizen of their own land.

That dovetails nicely with a question I have asked of birthers on several occasions, without reply.

If they are going to insist that "is legally able to apply for citizenship in another country" means "not a NBC", are they aware that their criteria excludes, among others, every Jew and anyone who had an Irish grandparent?

The notion is absurd. The laws of other nations couldn't possibly have any bearing on who is eligible to run for President and who is not. Yet somehow I can't get a single birther, on any of these threads, to respond to my question.

If they are going to insist that "is legally able to apply for citizenship in another country" means "not a NBC", are they aware that their criteria excludes, among others, every Jew and anyone who had an Irish grandparent?

The notion is absurd. The laws of other nations couldn't possibly have any bearing on who is eligible to run for President and who is not. Yet somehow I can't get a single birther, on any of these threads, to respond to my question.

Welcome to the party, highball. I have had some real difficulty myself getting birthers to respond to even simple yes or no questions. It's kind of like trying to get maple syrup out of an oak.

Sometimes even really simple questions with obvious answers. Like, if the evidence is clearly better that someone else supplied the phrase "offences against the law of nations" in our Constitution, will you agree that Vattel was not the source?

Real obvious stuff. Absolute refusal to answer.

All of which is an illustration in itself that not only is birtherism a complete fantasy, at least some of the birthers themselves KNOW that it's a complete fantasy.

This doesn’t quite fit your discussion of dual citizenship, but I found it interesting.

Theodore Roosevelt’s “Fear God and take your own part”

http://books.google.com/books?id=3KQZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA294&dq=fear+god+and+take+your+own+part++%22theodore+roosevelt%22&output=text#c_top

Chapter 9 “WHEN IS AN AMERICAN NOT AN AMERICAN?” on page 284 begins his discussion on dual citizenship.

At the end of this chapter, he writes,

“President Andrew Jackson on this theory could have been impressed for military service in the English army against which he fought at New Orleans, if he had ever happened to visit England; and President Arthur would have been in the same plight.”

I’m not sure why he mentions President Jackson as having a dual citizenhip, President Arthur is obvious.