The next rat Presidential candidate?
Posted on 08/24/2010 6:37:15 PM PDT by RobinMasters
The State Department is maintaining a "counter-misinformation" page on an America.gov blog that attempts to "debunk a conspiracy theory" that President Obama was not born in the United States, as if the topic were equivalent to believing space aliens visit Earth in flying saucers.
However, in the attempt to debunk the Obama birth-certificate controversy, the State Department author confirmed Obama was a dual citizen of the U.K. and the U.S. from 1961 to 1963 and a dual citizen of Kenya and the U.S. from 1963 to 1982, because his father was a Kenyan citizen when Obama was born in 1961.
In a number of court cases challenging Obama's eligibility, dual citizenship has been raised as a factor that could compromise his "natural born" status under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution. The cases argue dual citizenship would make Obama ineligible even if documentary evidence were shown the public, such as the hospital-issued long-form birth certificate that indicates the place of his birth and the name of the attending physician.
The entry "The Obama Birth Controversy" was written by Todd Leventhal, identified as the chief of the Counter-Misinformation Team for the U.S. Department of State. The office appears to have been established "to provide information about false and misleading stories in the Middle East," as described in a biography of Leventhal published on the U.S. Public Diplomacy website.
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Ah, the Great and powerful little “o” finds truth tailing his bunns thru the constitutional maze that surrounds and protects the Americans living within its borders.
November Commeth.
And who’s in charge of the State Department...?
The US doesn’t recognize dual citizenship.
Government is getting more brazen with time — “You’r right, Obama is constitutionally not eligible for the position he holds, but what are you going to do about it?”
The next rat Presidential candidate?
I’m not too sure about anything Corsi puts out after his empty bombshells during the 2008 elections.
Not saying there isn’t something here, just cautious.
What do you mean by “empty bombshells”?
Bump! ;-)
> The US doesn’t recognize dual citizenship.
US does recognize dual citizenship. You could be a dual citizen with almost any country up to the age of 18. After that things get murky. I personally know people who are over 40 and still maintain dual US/UK and US/Japan citizenship.
As far as I understand things, while you could not become a dual citizen (unless you are born that way), to lose one of your passports you have to voluntarily renounce that citizenship, it can not be taken away from you. Failing to renew a passport is considered equivalent to renouncing your citizenship.
So, if you conscientiously renew both your passports, you could maintain dual citizenship your entire life.
At least theoretically.
And the January Impeachment.
We do. I know several.
Technically he probably never lost his English citizenship.
His parents would have had to choose which one - Kenyan or English - some time after his birth.
Given that his parents had already split up, that would have probably been a duty his mother didn’t bother with.
So it would have probably been up to him to make a choice when he turned 18,
>>The US doesn’t recognize dual citizenship.
Someone better tell my daughter, she has a Japanese and American passport.
I meant for POTUS.
Sonar! Just one Ping...
I am waiting for the trolls commentary now.
Almost everyday during the final days of the election he was touting that he had proof BO was born in Kenya, and everyday he failed to bring the goods.
I just saw him trying to sell books.
To be honest, I was so turned off by his lack of follow through, this is the first piece I have read of his since early November 08.
Does that help answer your question?
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