Posted on 04/12/2011 2:35:48 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta
According to Romney family lawyers it doesn't matter if Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, Kenya, or even Paris: Because his mother was an American (and not even Donald Trump questions that), he is eligible to be President....posted using frpa
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American citizens do not, of course, need any sort of visa to be in their own country. So, what kind of message was being sent? Was it that legal visitors with visas were classified differently than other visitors who had not yet bothered to pick up their visas?
Since this is all based on administrative decisions, and not those of the judiciary or Congress, it's entirely possible that ICE and State Department could be directed by Congress to cease and desist from making the birthright citizenship decision, and to WITHDRAW all previous decisions.
After all, that's what's done when virtually any administrative decision is reversed or withdrawn. Life then goes on as if it had never been made ~ IRRESPECTIVE OF COST OR CONDITION of those affected.
That'd probably strip the Democrat party of 30 million votes!
What kind of family has family lawyers?
If I read your chart correctly, McCain was not eligible.
Is that how you read it?
Oh, lest I forget, this would definitely call into question the current Romney’s own privilege of running for President. After all, if his grandpa wasn’t really a citizen, and his dad wasn’t really a citizen, then maybe he’s not really a citizen.
McCain was born well within the jurisdictional bounds of the United States.
Obama's baby daddy was a foreign national in the US for his own interests. Any claim to American citizenship rests with his mother's status under the law in 1961.
Well, a Romney nomination will make Nancy Pelosi happy - because it won’t matter as much who actually gets elected.
Obama or Romney? What’s the diff? We have our “shared values”, don’t we?
Here’s what the moroness had to say on the subject:
“To my Republican friends: take back your party. So that it doesn’t matter so much who wins the election, because we have shared values about the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, our security and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors, . Because there are so many things at risk right now — perhaps in another question I’ll go into them, if you want. But the fact is that elections shouldn’t matter as much as they do ...But when it comes to a place where there doesn’t seem to be shared values then that can be problematic for the country, as I think you can see right now.”
“What kind of family has family lawyers?”
The Kennedy family had lawyers.
All mob families have lawyers.
Dementia patients often have lawyers.
I think you get the picture...Romney’s in good company.
“What is it with Romney? Always DEFENDING Obama...”
Why, or why does Romney want to use McCain’s losing game plan?
I've been changing my focus on where he was born to him needing two US Citizen parents to be POTUS.
Keep digging the hole you’re in Mittens, if fact grab a bigger shovel.
Too Funny. Romney the Magic RINO.
What would happen if Trump managed to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Obama was not eligible to be president?
Granted I'm no constitutional scholar, buts in my layman's reading of the constitution, it seems that the only way to remove a president from office once he was been sworn in is impeachment, there is no mention of what would happen if a president was found not to be qualified after the fact. So assuming that impeachment was the only option, I don't see a chance in heck of getting 19 democrat senators (assuming we could even count on all republicans) to remove him. The liberal dems will drag out there "living constitution" argument, scream racism, and claim the citizenship question is nothing more than a archaic technicality. The best outcome I could see would be Obama barred from running in 2012.
It also rests on where he was born.
The argument is easily made that EITHER the parent or place of birth are sufficient to satisfy the “natural born” requirement.
That would be the most liberal interpretation of course, but I expect thats what would prevail.
Myth’s grandfather and father were born in Mexico
Second, a statement of a clause in the Constitution does not in and of itself constitute "the law".
You'll notice if you ever look for it that "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is pretty thin gruel. In fact, one serious proposal is that Congress finally address what that means.
Until that happens you have only an administrative decision at State Department providing any guidance in the matter.
Even Romney's own citizenship may well be in danger.
We are speaking of the state of the statutes in 1961, and they are a bit different.
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Did you even read the article? Romney had nothing to do with this.
“Personally I think Allen West is our only hope.”
Sarah Palin is a true American and an excellent choice too.
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