As I read this, it applies to citizens who have served in the military, or govt. Where do you see that this applies to a 18 student living in Hawaii who gives birth to a boy in Kenya?
nikos, we've been over that!! (laugh) That proviso about the military or government service is to insure that if some citizen is serving outside of U.S. soil or the soil of its outlying possessions, that service will not be taken to invalidate the natural-born status of his/her offspring because of the residency requirement. It's an 'out' for military and government personnel, to insure that their kids born overseas aren't denied natural-born status. It does NOT say that if a citizen is NOT serving in a military or government capacity, then that citizen can't give birth overseas to a natural-born citizen; all those folks have to do is meet the residencey requirement as stated in the condition.
It's legal jargon and somewhat confusing, I'll grant, but that's the meaning.
For “residencey requirement” please read “residency requirement” in the penultimate line of my post #94.
I’ll take your word for it...but you must admit there are some people thinking differently.
My point, and you know this, is that the man has been deceptive and out right lying about his birth and pedigree. He wrote the account in his bio. The fact may be that he was NOT born here.
I think the American public needs to know this, and decide if they still want to vote for him.
Also, there appears to be a closer bond between him and his African roots than he has previously admitted too.
Clearly, he’s moving to the center to get elected. Even Quaddafi, Libya, said yesterday that Obama is a Muslim and is probably lying about it to get elected, as if lying in that regard is okay for those people.