Posted on 12/06/2008 8:35:20 PM PST by Maelstorm
Unofficial results showed Republican attorney Anh "Joseph" Cao denying Jefferson a 10th term.
Republicans made an aggressive push to get rid of the 61-year-old incumbent, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, laundering money and misusing his congressional office.
Cao won a predominantly black and heavily Democratic district that covers most of New Orleans. He will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress.
He came to the U.S. as a child after the fall of Saigon in 1975. He went on to earn degrees in philosophy, physics and law.
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Neither of Jindal’s parents were citizens at the time of his birth.
Jindal was born in the US so is a citizen. But if both his parents immigrated here, became citizens, and were citizens at the time of Jindal’s birth, then he would be a “natural born” citizen and qualify to hold the offoce of President.
Congrats to New Orleans. I drove my grandmother to vote against Dollar Bill Jeffuhson today :D Turnout was very light.
William “Freezer” Jefferson gets iced. It took the voters of Louisiana to do work Democrat majority should have done in the last 2 years.
Again, they were not citizens at the time of his birth.
I have not heard of this...any details? I’ve been all over the Zero BC threads and missed any discussion that Jindal is not eligible. I hope that is not true.
Here’s hoping that Congressman Cao thanks the Democrat House leadership in making it possible for him to serve his constituents, because if their political ancestors in the 93rd Congress hadn’t have stabbed South Vietnam in the back by cutting off all assistance in October ‘74, he wouldn’t be there today.
What are the qualifications for VP?
What if he was VP and became President?
Even Donofrio does not question that fact that Obama was born in Hawaii. His case is based on the citizenship of his father.
So, if Donofrio is right, neither Obama or Jindal can be President.
YES!
I missed your earlier post. You are right. Since his parents were not citizens he can not run for President. He certainly is a great Governor!
Donofrio’s theory is that neither Obama or Jindal are qualified based on thefact that their fathers were not American citizens at the time of their birth.
Jindal/Petraeus
Donofrio's case has no standing. Birth citizenship (I would usually say unfortunately) as a US citizen has no basis in the status of your parents, but solely on whether you were born within an area of US sovereign jurisdiction (note - not necessarily just the 50 States, which is why McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone which was at the time a US military base, was still eligible). If Donofrio's case had merit, then we could celebrate, because millions of Latin American "anchor babies" would be non-citizens and could be deported along with their illegal families. This is obviously not the case, however.
They are both unqualified to hold the office of President.
A “natural born” citizen is one who is born on US soil AND born from parents who are citizens at the time of the one’s birth.
One crooked democrat liberal/thief down, 58 to go in the Senate and 260 or so in the House.
Not true. You have the whole question of what "natural born" means backwards. It isn't about whether somebody born in the USA had parents who were *not* US citizens. It's about whether somebody who was NOT born in the USA had parents who *were* US citizens. It revolves as a legal question for those who are born of two US citizens, but were born overseas, e.g. a child of two US military personnel born on a US base in Germany. IIRC, such a child is still considered a "natural born" citizen of the USA, according to US law.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) basically established the jus soli principle which says that a child born on US soil - to ANY parents - is a US citizen by birth. United States v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 subsequently upheld this.
The issue with Obama is not whether his dad was a foreign citizen or not. The issue is whether Obama *himself* was born in Hawaii or in Kenya.
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