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To: bvw
IOW, the Goldwater spin you put down is superficial claptrap.
I just stated a few simple facts. You're the one having a hissy fit over this.

Neither one of us are Constitutional scholars so neither one of us are qualified to state authoritatively that being born in a U.S. Territory does or does not disqualify one from becoming President.

However, the Republican Party, the Congress of the United States and the Supreme Court all accepted that someone born in a U.S. Territory was eligible to be President in 1964. That is a clear precedent that would cover Obama if he were actually born in Hawaii prior to Statehood.

73 posted on 03/30/2011 1:22:42 PM PDT by Johnny B.
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To: Johnny B.
Neither one of us are Constitutional scholars

That's not so. It is a duty of an educated citizen to be a passable scholar of the Constitution. Those professionals who claim some unquestionable expertise are most often found to have radical misconceptions of what the Founders meant. The Founders wee good men, they were educated men, they would I am certain have despised the the whole concept of an unquestionable expert on the Constitution where that expert claimed to know or understand things an otherwise educated man could not.

93 posted on 03/30/2011 2:04:32 PM PDT by bvw
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