Good GOD. Do you know how many soldiers and diplomats have had kids in foreign countries. THEY ARE NBCs if their parents are US Citizens. It has been codified in our laws for a very, very, very long time. It doesn’t matter what you think about it.
You are confusing the legal definition of citizenship, the three types of statutory citizenships recognized by our country, with a requirement for the highest political office in the U.S.A. They are two entirely different things.
In the U.S.Constitution is it very clear: one needs to be a citizen to be a Representative in the House of Congress; one needs to be a citizen to be a Senator in Congress; to be President of the United States one MUST be a Natural Born Citizen.
There is a difference, and our founders wanted it that way.
If Obama was indeed born in Hawaii, he still isn’t eligible to be President as his father was a foreign national, in his case, a subject of Great Britain.
Many people don’t know this, but Obama’s father registered him with the Consulate in Hawaii as a British subject after birth. Three years later, when Kenya became an independent nation, Obama II was again registered but this time as a citizen of Kenya.
The main thing to remember about Obama is that the only way to shed his status as a subject of Great Britain is by naturalizing as citizen to another nation, something we assume he has never done.
I don’t know....She’s pretty much spot on. It’s the letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law. If McCain was born on Panamanian soil to citizen parents, by law he would be a statatory citizen. Once you open the technicality door.....anything goes. See Balsawoody’s posts ;)
This would be the toughest kind of case for the Supreme Court to resolve.