Replies

I believe the information from the original abstract is transferred to the computer paper but the font looks like 60s era typeface to me. At any rate, I think it’s legit and am ready to move on. Let’s have Obama explain how since his father was not a citizen, he is a natural-born citizen.

That right there is the issue. Dual citizens (such as Barack Obama, II) cannot be natural born citizens within the meaning of Article II, Section 1.

Everybody had been asking for a long form birth certificate for three years, and they finally got it. He was born in Hawaii, at Kapiolani. He does have simple U. S. citizenship, acquired from his mother and his place of birth.

But it's also quite clear that the only citizenship he could have inherited from his father is British, which makes Barack H. Obama, II, a dual citizen (i.e., not natural born) at birth. He is ineligible to serve as President (or Vice-President) by virtue of Article II, Section 1, United States Constitution.

About the only job Obama can't fill as a dual British-American citizen that a natural born citizen can do is the one he has right now.

Trouble is Milton? There's an argument on whether that applies. According to one (assuredly lib)legal scholar, in the Michigan Law Review. Now, the source is wiki, but I could see them making this argument:

In a 2008 article published by the Michigan Law Review Lawrence Solum, Professor of Law at the University of Illinois, stated that "[t]here is general agreement on the core of [the] meaning [of the Presidential Eligibility Clause]. Anyone born on American soil whose parents are citizens of the United States is a 'natural born citizen'".[21] In April 2010 Solum republished the same article as an online draft, in which he changed his opinion on the meaning of natural born citizen to include persons born in the United States of one American citizen parent. In a footnote he explained that "[b]ased on my reading of the historical sources, there is no credible case that a person born on American soil with one American parent was clearly not a 'natural born citizen.'" He further extended natural born citizenship to all cases of jus soli as the "conventional view".[22],

Not saying I agree, but this will be the argument.