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“If we say de Vattel is the correct interpretation, it is the correct interpretation.”

You don’t want to go there, since the people, in a national election, put in office a man they knew had a foreign born father. In that sense, the PEOPLE spoke, and you are just whining about the results.

It's been pointed out that a lot of people don't realize that Obama's father was a foreign national who did NOT immigrate to the United States. I've already shown where one of the most respected papers in the country referred to Obama as an immigrant, so a lot of these voters evidently assume Obama is from a family of immigrants who wanted to be U.S. citizens. Nothing could be further from the truth. These voters don't understand Obama has a multinational background and four continents' worth of citizenships.

devattel poses an excellent question for the masses to ponder: Why is it relevant as the most important qualification for the position?? Do these voters understand why the Constutition requires our president to be a natural born citizen?? Is the constitution irrelevant because a majority voters are ignorant??

Mr Rogers said:

You don’t want to go there, since the people, in a national election, put in office a man they knew had a foreign born father. In that sense, the PEOPLE spoke, and you are just whining about the results.

The United States does not live via Mob Rule. Laws have been enacted to protect the Republic. Ignorance to the law, or disregard of it as a matter of convenience or "Hope and Change", does not excuse the infractions of these laws.

The United States is not a democracy either. We the People never vote a president directly into office, so your interpretation is unfounded.

The way the process works is simple. We vote for electors to represent us. Those electors vote for the President and Vice President and these candidates become elects. Different states have different quantities of electors. Therefore, our votes never have the same influence on the office of the President. Smaller states have greater voting power than those in states such as California. Regardless as to what the "PEOPLE" have spoken, we never touch a ballot that winds up in the hands of Congress. It was the electors who have SPOKEN and put the man into office.

Our system of government is via indirect weighted representation. As such, we are a Republic.

As far as "whining about the results", some members on Free Republic may be doing just that. However, many of us are gravely concerned about the Constitutionality of the current administration. If anything Obama has done a fine job of destroying his own usurping administration. His authority has been challenged, his laws reversed, and his track record is on a faster pace to the bottom than Millard Fillmore, who to this date is considered to be to the worst president this nation ever elected.