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To: Smokeyblue
Please read this Oct. 27 article by Doug Edelman.

It's a good summary, & has the details of the suit in WA.

Excerpt:

Thanks to the lawsuit filed by Philip Berg, Obama now ADMITS (on his "Fight the Smears" website and factcheck.org) that he held dual citizenship with Kenya as a child. This, in and of itself, may arguably disqualify him under Article II as the whole point of the "Natural Born Citizen" requirement is the avoidance of divided allegiances. (Which makes his covert and quite possibly illegal activities [Logan Act?] on behalf of Kenya's thugocrat, Odinga, all the more relevant and disturbing.)

There is a further complication, however. His subsequent adoption by Lolo Soetoro and resultant INDONESIAN citizenship is a bigger fly in his ointment.

. . .

Indonesia, at the time Obama lived there and was deemed an Indonesian citizen, did not recognize dual citizenship, and neither did the US recognize dual citizenship with Indonesia. Thus, whether he held dual citizenship with the US and Kenya, whether he was born in the US or Kenya, or even - as some suggest - CANADA, is irrelevant as the ONLY legitimate citizenship he held once his adopted father moved him to Indonesia was Indonesian! His US Citizenship would be forfeit!

. . .

Whether and when Barry Soetoro/Barack Obama might have regained US Citizenship thereafter, it would be thru NATURALIZATION and that is SPECIFICALLY and EXPRESSLY ineligible to serve as President of the United States under Title II. (Could this be why he uses the politically risky name Barack Hussein Obama instead of the more innocuous "Barry Soetoro"? Perhaps Barry Soetoro is STILL an Indonesian citizen? Perhaps there are naturalization papers in the name of Barry Soetoro?

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26 posted on 11/07/2008 8:57:37 PM PST by goldbux (When yer odd, the odds are with you.)
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To: goldbux

Thank you for stating my concerns so clearly.

I had given up trying to make the same points and the fact that he may have used the Indonesian citizenship to travel as an adult. That would seem to make it impossible for him to say he was a “child” and not responsible for the actions of his parents during the adoption. Citizenship reinstated? Not likely.

Can you imagine any court stopping his inauguration and releasing the resultant national turmoil? Neither can I. He knows that.


37 posted on 11/07/2008 9:22:10 PM PST by 3D-JOY
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To: goldbux

what prevents him from getting docs forged?


43 posted on 11/07/2008 9:34:46 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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