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To: cynwoody
"John McCain also had natural born citizenship problems
No he didn't.

The Obama campaign committee seemed to think he did, attempting twice in 2008, Obama/McCaskill’s Senate Bill 2678 to “Make Foreign Born Children of Military Citizens Eligible to Presidency”, Feb 2008 and Leahy/McCaskill Senate Res 511 in April 2008 to say, in effect, since a resolution is an opinion - not law, that “Because he has American citizen parents we believe he is a natural born Citizen.”

You, of course, are entitled to disagree with them, and to disagree with Chief Justice John Marshall, Chief Justice John Jay, Chief Justice Morrison Waite, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Justice Horace Gray, and 14th Amendment author John Bingham.

I do agree in principle that the case made by Larry Tribe and Ted Olson has a germ of truth, even though they misled readers about the only legal language which seemed to confer natural born citizenship on foreign born children of citizens, the 1790 Nationality Act. It was repealed in 1795 and the issue was never again addressed. It should be, but it hasn't.

McCain brought us Obama, since had he honored his oath to defend and protect the Constitution, he would have said something like “I wish I could be your president, but until the supreme court extends the interpretation cited a dozen or so times, I'm not a natural born citizen; but neither is Barack Obama, not born to “... parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty...” in the words of 14th Amendment author John Bingham. Its about allegiance of parents since the child is presumed to inherit that allegiance. McCain has the parents, but has a problem with sovereign soil.

We can pretend that our justices really meant something else, but words have meanings. No words make McCain eligible.

55 posted on 05/18/2011 2:39:19 AM PDT by Spaulding
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To: Spaulding
McCain brought us Obama

Bah! It's really simple. The sheeple brought us Obama because McCain was too old and tired and easy going to persuade them to elect him instead. It has nothing to do with the Constitutional qualifications of either candidate. And it's a waste of time to pursue the matter.

57 posted on 05/18/2011 2:51:41 AM PDT by cynwoody
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